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Teaching for Understanding

Teaching for Understanding. Actual student responses to test questions…understanding? Thanks to Richard Lederer, St. Paul’s School.

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Teaching for Understanding

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  1. Teaching for Understanding Actual student responses to test questions…understanding? Thanks to Richard Lederer, St. Paul’s School

  2. “Moses led the hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada.”

  3. The Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

  4. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out, tee hee, Brutus.

  5. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. Her death was the final event which ended her career.

  6. The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Archduck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.

  7. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon.

  8. The Pilgrims crossed the ocean and this was called Pilgrim’s Progress. The winter of 1620 was hard for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for this.

  9. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.

  10. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. • Middle School Student

  11. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.

  12. Joan of Arc was cannonized by George Bernard Shaw, and the victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks.

  13. Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When Elizabeth exposed herself to her troops, they all shouted “hurrah.” Then her navy went out and defeated the Spanish Armadillo.

  14. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

  15. Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.

  16. Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.

  17. Thinking about thinking and problem solving • If you average 20 kph bicycling up a hill and 60 kph going down the hill, what is your average speed for the trip?

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