students in becoming better writers. This will be accomplished through hands on activities involving the steps of the writing process and review of the 4 areas of Language Arts: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Grading Policy: Homework = 10% Tests/Essays/Projects = 40% Class Work/Quizzes = 50% All assignments will be graded within a timely manner. As per school policy all test/quizzes will be returned within a week. Essays will be returned within a two week period
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Schools should no longer have homework. Homework cause a lot of extra stress. Homework lessens the interaction between a parent and their child. People may not have the knowledge or the time for it. So ideally homework is just a pure waste of time and effort. Homework gives disquiet. You come home from a long day of school but yet to overcome the fear of finishing your homework. Will you finish it by tomorrow or take the shame of failing. Fear comes to you like metal would to a magnet, when you
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gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” Actress Lily Tomlin is correct. When students get home after a six-hour school day they are often overwhelmed with outrageous amounts of homework. This extra and sometimes unnecessary burden adds only anxiety to the average student leaving them a slave to their homework. This is a problem that can be alleviated with time and patience. Students are not happy with their current homework loads. Sixty-one percent of students in a recent survey
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also insanely important. A lot of times, when you don’t get your homework done, it snowballs into a huge problem until you fail the class. Now teachers understand if you have a busy home life, you just have to communicate this to them. Talk to them and let them know you don’t have much free time at home. But if you don’t have anything to do at home, GET YOUR HOMEWORK DONE. Set aside 30 minutes before bed or after school to do homework. Another 10 minutes to study every night. If you stay focussed you’ll
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Homework is a huge part of the daily lives of students. Many people believe homework is essential for success in class and a new understanding on materials, but that idea has its critics. Recent data has shown homework to be unhelpful for students’ learning. In Valerie Strauss’ article “As Homework Grows, So Do Arguments Against It” from September 12, 2006 Washington Post she uses pathos and logos effectively, by supporting her thoughts with reliable sources to discuss the controversy of whether
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Homework brings feelings of dread, anxiety, and stress to many students. Successful students often sacrifice their health and well-being for the sake of their academic future. Students can end up sleep deprived if overloaded with homework and can even resort to self-harm and illegal activities to cope with the stress. To avoid having students burn themselves out, teachers should assign no more than fifteen minutes of homework to high school students a day and only assign homework with obvious value
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Versie T. Page EDu-225 Prof. 10/30/2010 Technology is slowly but sure taking over society. Many people are starting to use these resources when it comes to paying bill as well as communicating. Technology in the classroom is slowly advancing and I think that it is important that a teacher do their research and stay ahead of the positive and negative impacts of it. My first year as a teacher i will try to stay up to par with the students with that being said I will want to create a
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Jessica Kremer BCOM275 Week One Communicating in the Workplace Assignment 1.1 Who was the sender? | I was the sender | Who was the receiver? | A co-worker | What was the message? | Trying to get on the same page with what my co-worker was telling his student, which was the husband of my student. | What channel was used to send the message? | Voicemail | What was the misunderstanding that occurred? | My co-worker thought that I was trying to take over as the representative of his student
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Personal Responsibility and College Success Johnnelle Gamble Gen/200 July 9 2012 Tyra Barnes-Ammarah Personal Responsibility and College Success In order to fully be successful in college it’s highly important that the students obtain an attitude of personal responsibility. When an individual finally accepts personal responsibility for their actions, is when they have matured into the adult stage. Personal responsibility is highly important for college students and their success because
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by the parents and returned the next day. Homework will be given out daily. Students will be expected to turn in homework on a daily basis. If homework is not completed the student will be required to finish their homework at recess and the student will be given a missing assignment form that will need to be signed and returned the next day along with the completed homework. If the missing assignment form is not turned in with the completed homework, the student will be required to serve detention
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