4. Write the questions which you would ask a class who had read a description of a glacier, in order to stimulate their thought and test their knowledge of this topic.
5. How many questions did you ask during one hour’s work? Observe some other teacher, and score the number of questions.
6. Why is it important to consider the form or the wording of the question you ask?
7. How can you challenge the attention of every member of your class by the questions which you ask?
8. Why is it poor method to repeat the answer given by one of the pupils?
9. Do your pupils recite to you, or to the class?
10. When would you expect children to ask questions? To whom should such questions be addressed?
11. Criticize the questions used by the teacher in the following stenographic report of a high school recitation in English. A lesson on the old ballads has been given before. The text used was Seward, Narrative and Lyric Poems, pp. 20-35.
Teacher: Before we begin to talk about modern ballads, let’s see what you got from your first impression of the old ballads last time. In the first place, give four or five subjects that the old ballad writers were especially interested in.