for my AP government final exam i gave my students the ability to earn 10 bonus points, 1 each for correctly identifying the following important people, places, and things of 2009. i purposefully made some of them easy enough that everyone should get them (SHOULD), and some so hard that i didn't know if anyone would get them. here's the list, for your enjoyment, along with the funniest answers i received. (giggling over the silly things that students write is the best part about being a teacher. i figured i should share.) maximum number of correct answers by a student: 7.
1. bagram - [no funny answers - just lots of wrong answers. two kids knew, though - i was so proud!]
2. fareed zakaria - president of iran AND president of afghanistan AND regular contributor to Newsweek (creepy picture guy??)
3. fort hood - shooting massacre! [if you are a 17 year old girl, you like to put exclamation points at the end of sentences that, perhaps, don't need them.]
4. going rogue: an american life - [everyone knew this - hooray]
5. khalid shaikh mohammed - former Nobel Peace Prize winner OR winner of the mayoral race in atlanta
6. mary norwood - [you non-atlantans may not know who she is; she lost the atlanta mayoral race in a run-off, but would have been the first white mayor of atlanta in almost 40 years had she won.]
7. rahm emanuel - terrorist
8. tehran - [most kids knew this, too.]
9. timothy geithner - guy from project runway who always says "designers!" [said by a boy - i love it]
10. the west wing - [i got more answers related to the tv show of this name than the actual location, but i gave them credit]
The timothy geithner one is priceless-- love it! And, love the Christmas card and CD-- thank you! xoxo
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