Homework Policy

Assigned Homework

Please help your student be successful with his/her daily work by creating a time and space for homework to be completed each night. The more students get into a routine with homework, the more precious family time in the evenings will be safeguarded.  Students will record assigned homework in their planners.

Homework is required to be turned in on time. 

Make-Up/Absent work: It is the student’s responsibility to ask his/her desk partner what homework/classwork was assigned (e.g.: what history chapter we covered, what was assigned in composition, what reading was missed) and to complete and turn in work during the Grace Period for excused absences. Grace Period: For each day of school missed with an excused absence, a student will have one school day to complete the missed work, up to a maximum of 7 school days.  An “Absent Folder” will be placed on an absent student’s desk and any handouts that were given will be put in there.

GRAMMAR

Most grammar work should be classwork. Students will have homework whenever they don't complete classwork or whenever I decide that the class would benefit from further practice than we are able to achieve during class time. Aside from uncompleted classwork, homework assignments will always be listed on the board in the morning and due the next day unless specified otherwise.

COMPOSITION

Most composition work will be classwork. If classwork is not completed, it will then become homework. Occasionally, I may request that students come into class with something already written or completed. In those cases, the assignment will be listed on the board in the morning and can be copied down in the student's planner. Unless specified otherwise, homework is always meant to be turned in the day after it is assigned. 

SCIENCE

Science has a greater focus on activities, quizzes, and projects than the other two subjects I teach. Still, the homework policy is basically the same: unfinished classwork becomes homework, and any additional homework will be listed on the board in the morning. Homework should be completed and turned in the day after it is assigned.