Here is some
information you should know...
- Your
son has no time to do his homework in school
- Unlike
your high school days, Salesian High has no study halls
- Your
son's "lunch hour" is only 35 minutes, so he cannot complete his
homework during lunch
- Therefore, he has
NEVER finished his
homework in school
- Your
son has about two hours of homework every day
- He
will have writing assignments, questions to answer, and math problems
to complete
- This will not take two hours, and this is NOT all your son has to do
- He
should work on his Cornell notebooks every
day
- Usually, students fill notebooks with words and never
look at them before exam time
- When your son rewrites his notes into his Cornell
notebook, he's actually studying!
- He is also thinking about what he
learned and using the left border
for further study and note taking
- Click here
to learn more about Cornell note taking
- He
has reading to complete in his textbooks
- He
has novels to read for English class
- He
has studying to do for tests and quizzes
- So
when your son is "done" with his homework after a half-hour, he's
skipped most of this list
- There
are 500 students in our school and only 46 seats in the library
- The library is open for only 30 minutes before homeroom;
not enough time to complete homework
- The library is open for only 35 minutes during lunch;
not enough time to complete homework
- The library is open for only one hour after school; also
not enough time to complete homework
- Planning
your son's 2 hours of homework
- It
need not be two hours straight
- Instead consider an hour before supper and an hour
after supper
- He
should have a set place to work
- It should be in a quiet place without distractions,
like
TV
- Your
son follows a "Block Schedule"
- He
attends each class for a double-period every other day
- Example...
- Your son has
English on Monday, Day 1
- He
will receive homework on Monday
- He
will try to ignore this homework Monday night
- He will not have English
again until Wednesday, Day 3
- He will want to put off his English homework until
Tuesday night
- Do NOT permit this!
- By Tuesday, he will have forgotten much of what he learned on
Monday
- If he does his homework Monday night and has
problems, he can check with his
English teacher on Tuesday
- He will have gotten lots more homework on Tuesday and is now
overloaded
- You
should insist that your son does all of his homework for all of the
classes he had THAT day
- Insist that your son use his Agenda Book
- He should record all of his
assignments and deadlines in his Agenda Book
- He should check off
each assignment when he completes it
- He should have phone numbers of
fellow students so he can check on assignments when he's absent from
school
- With a Block
schedule, when he's absent one day,
he misses two class periods
- He
should record his grades in the Agenda Book "Record of Achievement"
- You will always know
how your son's doing in school if you can see all of his grades in his
"Record of Achievement"
- Click here to learn
more about the Agenda Book
For
Homework Help Resources for Parents, click here.
To see teachers' office hours (for extra help for your son) click here.
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