Due Date: Monday, October 8, 2012 But How Does It Relate to Real Life? : The Presence of Homework in American Schools Due Date: Monday, October 8, 2012

Homework Math problems, reading and writing students work on outside of school Can range from 30 minutes to 2 hours per night Often given in every subject Work given after dismissal from school (Paul par. 2)

Character Profile Travis Willard Younger “The child, a sturdy, handsome little boy of ten or eleven…”(Act I, scene i page 4) 10-11 years old Wants to be a bus driver Sometimes wants to be like his father, other times, not Moves into the house with his family

Quotation and Character Connection Quotation and explanation How character connects to topic “This is the morning we supposed to bring the fifty cents to school…Teacher say we have to.” (Act I, scene i, page 7) Explains that his teacher has asked each student to bring money for a project Mother does not have the money to give him Travis given homework Parents cannot provide what he needs Has to go to school without homework Out of his control

Pro-Why homework should be present in schools Different styles of homework can be beneficial “…language learners who employed the retrieval practice strategy to study vocabulary words remembered 80 percent of the words they studied” (Murphy Paul par. 11) Students need practice outside of schools Retrieval practice makes students improve learning by revisiting facts they already know and make their memories stronger (Murphy Paul par. 10)

Con-Why homework should not be present in schools Students spend too much time with few results “Homework isn’t making the grade” (Paul par. 3) Homework does not improve test scores Reports show homework in science, English and history barely impacts student grades (Paul par. 4)

Decision/Conclusion Explain what your group thinks and why The character Explain what your group thinks and why Explain what your character would think and why

Works Cited Paul, Annie Murphy. "OPINION; The Trouble With Homework." The New York Times. The New York Times, 11 Sept. 2011. Web. 17 Sept. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/opinion/sunday/quality-homework-a-smart-idea.html?pagewanted=all>. "Travis and Walter Younger." A Raisin in the Sun. Colorado Drama, n.d. Web. 3 Oct. 2012. <http://www.coloradodrama.com/images/raisin_in_sun_travis_walter.jpg>.

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