School--Sarah,+Olivia

​Olivia and I decided to talk more about school. Last time we talked about iPods and gum so we are talking about teachers and homework this time. We know that most of you guys don't like homework. A lot of people don't do homework at home, or just do it in school. If no one does it at home, maybe we don't have the time! Most of us are teenagers and we want to be able to go home and have fun, but we can't when we have so much homework! I don't like doing homework because I want to hang out with my friends and go to the movies and have fun. I like waiting till the last minutes which isn't good because then I don't get a lot of sleep. If we don't have time for homework, maybe they should shorten how much they give us per week. Another thing teachers could do is give us all the homework for the week on Monday, and we will turn it all in by the next Monday, so whenever we have the time, we will finish it. I really do think it would help if we get our homework at the begining of the week because it would give us five days to find time to fit in the homework. I think that as thirteen- year- olds, we should get a page of homework a day. The link below gives many reasons why kids don't do homework.

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What kinds of changes would be helpful? Look for some articles about the effectiveness of homework. Are different types of homework more beneficial than others? How much homework should students your age/grade get each night? See what info is out there regarding this topic. Ms. Darga ​ ====I agree getting homework on monday and then turning it on the folloing monday would be nice. I am always overlouded by homewok and never have time to have fun with my friends. I want more time to hang out insted of studing for a test or something. Miranda!====

I agree! Maybe we could get a packet of things that were going to do and the teacher announces what page of the oacket the homework of that night is on. I think that kids should have time to go out and have fun. I like coming home and hanging out with my friends. I don't like having homework on the weekends because normally I'm always with my friends and I don't do it and its your days off of the school week so we should hang out.I like the ides that we get our homework on monday and turn it in the following monday. Kids are only kids once and they should just sit back and relax and live their life.

I am not a huge fan of homework myself, however, I find it has the potential to be eye-opening and crucial. Homework not only reflects on the student’s behavior, (how responsible the student is) but on the student’s grade as well. I have never turned in my homework late, despite my afternoon activities. Sure, I wish that I were playing Rise of Nations with my cousin downstairs or hanging out with friends, but my grades are very important to me. I realize that if my homework is not completed, it leads to bad habits, poor grades, and irresponsibility. If you are experiencing difficulties completing homework due to afternoon activities, try loosening up your day. Get rid of all the unnecessary activities so that you may hand in a sheet of crisp, clean, completed homework to your teacher the following day. As to the idea of homework on Mondays only, I do not agree. If a teacher’s lesson plan has him/her scheduled to teach something new on, say, Wednesday, the homework he handed out will not make sense to the students until Wednesday passed. I think that your idea has some room for improovement, and you may want to think it over before posting it to our blog. Perhaps you could suggest students loosen up their day or ask your teachers how they feel about the subject. I took the liberty of fixing a few grammmatical errors on your post, also. I hope that my comment will come to help you! Tori

I hate Homework, and would like to get all the week's homework on Monday. If we did get all the homework for the week on Mondays, we still wouldn't get it untill it is taught by our teacher. That could be on Thursday. I also think homework is boring and not fun to do but we still need a little for practice outside of school. I would like less homework, though, because it's WAY TOO MUCH! Drew

I really hate homework! I mean really hate it. But I can live with it if there isn't alot of it. I do agree with you about how boring homework is, and how no one likes to do it. So I think that teachers should have a limit to how much homework they give us each day. I also think that teachers shouldn't give us homework over the weekend because it is the time when we can relax from the boring schedule of school. In conclusion, I think that there should be a limit to the homework given to us by teachers. Ryan.

You guys are right! If we are being taught the lesson on Thursday and we got out homework on Monday it wouldn't be so good. But what we ment was that if we get our homework Monday and you chosse to go ahead then thats fine and you can go ahead. But if you want to stay with the teacher then you can! It is only if you know the stuff already in order to do it earlier. Good job on commenting the blog!!

I like your idea about the packet and about the homework loads on Monday. I absoultly HATE homework! Especially if its really boring and mundane. But then again homework is necessary, i guess, in a way. maybe a little a day is okay, but there should definatly be a limit. Great Blog idea! ~Neha~

Hey guys, its Delaney. I absolutely hate homework! It takes up most of my time after school and on the weekends most of the time. I agree with you on the part that we are teenagers; we want to go hang out with our friends and have fun not sit in the house on a nice day. I, like you, wait to the last minute to finish a project or homework. But I don’t like the idea of getting all of our homework on Monday and then we do it when ever we can during the week. I mean think about it if you wait to the last minute to do your homework on a daily bases, then how are you going to do it during the week when you don’t have to. Then you get stuck doing it Sunday night. That’s just my opinion. I mean does anybody agree with me? ~Delaney ~

School- Olivia and Sarah 1) Our topic follows school. And in our school Wordle the word that sticks out the most is //school// and //gum//. I think this because a lot of kids want changes with iPods and want to be able to chew gum. Debate follows our category too and the word that sticks out the most is //school//. I once again think this because a lot of people want changed in the school.

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3) The wordle school, debate, and my wordle have many differences and similarities. Some similarities are that they talk about IPods, gum and school. The differences are that our posts talk about how IPods and gum should be aloud during school. The other blogs talk about how they should not be aloud. 4) []. This shows many reasons why homework is good and bad. 5) The blog we found and our blog are different and similar in different ways. The reason why they are different is because the blog talks about why we shouldn’t have homework at all. The blog doesn’t want less homework; they want no homework at all because they think that it affects your grade a lot. The reasons why the blog I found and my blog are similar because we both want to make changes. Obviously, we both don’t like the homework rules and would like some changes.   6) For our next blog we would like to stick to school. But we think we need to change up the topic a little bit. We talked about iPods, gum, and homework. We think we should talk about teachers now. Like maybe if we talk about if they treat you guys equally or not. We will probably go on Google and stuff to look up information on what students think about teachers treating people equal.