April Fooling 2010

Being that it's April 1st, I figured it was time to dust off the old April Fools Impossible Vocabulary Quiz. This year I got less of a reaction; I think it's because my introductory speech was less harrowing. It should be noted that one kid actually got 7/10, an improvement from last year's top score of 3/10.

However, I am also teaching a class where we are reading Bridge to Terabithia, and I created a new quiz for this class. Their usual quizzes ask them to identify the context and the significance of some passages from the book. I took this idea and ran with it. The first page was normal, but then I inserted this second page:



The disturbing thing is that nobody seemed to notice and they actually came up with some funny answers. The fact that the main character, Jess, talks like a country hick and not like Humphrey Bogart or Abraham Lincoln probably should have given it away.