1. 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

2. 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)

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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

8. Works Cited
Paul, Annie Murphy. "OPINION; The Trouble With Homework." The New York Times. The New York Times, 11 Sept Web. 17 Sept < "Travis and Walter Younger." A Raisin in the Sun. Colorado Drama, n.d. Web. 3 Oct <

9. The End.
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