9. Criticize the following lesson, as a fourth-grade exercise in spelling. The teacher placed the following list of words on the board, and told the pupils to study them.
| believe | conduct | have |
| forget | agriculture | manufacture |
| store | plow | wagon |
| cultivate | harness | exports |
| crops | dairy | freight |
| drought | fertilizer | transport |
| depot | wheat |
10. A teacher who spent a large part of her time having the class recite the multiplication tables in concert was distressed to find that a majority of the class did not know the tables when examination time came. What was the explanation?
11. In a school where the children had a forty-minute period for a writing lesson, the results during the last ten minutes were invariably poorer than during the first quarter of the period. How could you hope to change the result?
12. In some schools the teachers always spend two weeks before the examination period in review of the term’s work. Why are such reviews necessary in some cases, while children do just as well in examinations in other schools which do not have this review period?
13. A teacher taught children that they could always tell how much nine times any number was by subtracting one from that number for the tens place, then adding a number which will make nine for the units place (e.g. 5 × 9 = ? 5 - 1 = 4 (tens); 4 + 5 = 9. ∴ 5 is the number of units, and 5 × 9 = 45). Is this a good way to teach this table?
14. How can you know when it is wise to discontinue drill work?
15. Do you think it necessary to plan for a drill lesson?
16. Could you plan your work so that your pupils will know at the end of the year all of the poems you have taught during the previous eight or ten months?