Who is Horatio Alger?
Early Saturday morning, we all went back to school with the sun rising and our number two pencils ready. Many hours later, the Praxis II was done for many of us in the U of MN English teaching cohort!
Who is Horatio Alger? He is the man that will keep me from getting a perfect score. :)
Some of the questions on the Praxis are fun in that they test your general knowledge of English literature, but if you don't know a certain figure, you just don't know it. It kind of reminded me of high school academic team. Many questions included a passage and having us identify certain devices or look at examples of student work and what kinds of errors are made (misplaced modifier, etc.). The questions were such that--if you knew it, you knew it, and if you didn't. I don't know if I could have studied for Horatio Alger or how to look up books in the library (they had something called The
Anyway, it's over now, and I only need a 145 out of 200 points to pass in
(All I can say is thank goodness they don't have a spelling portion of this test. I would fail miserably!)
The first Praxis was amusing--this we had to take before beginning the program. It has a math, reading, and writing component, and I took them one on each day for three days in August in
We still have one more Praxis exam left, and this is the pedagogy and rumored to be the most difficult, which makes sense given that this is the area that we have studied the least (in our lifetimes).
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