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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But it’s not “homework” if the options for students are: you can spend the balance of this 90 minute block laughing with friends at a YouTube video OR you can do the assigned “home” work.  It’s not teaching for half the class and it’s also not homework.

And 5 paragraphs sounds much more like it but this is a humongous deal and takes like an entire quarter for these kids.  Not like a 2-day assignment.  [/quote]

Not every class has extra time and it's not for half of the period. :roll: They can frequently use TA and Phoenix Time to work on homework.

It doesn't take a whole quarter for an essay. The Outsiders was a huge project but they spent a lot of the time learning about Cornell Notes/annotating and other activities; they also did a socratic seminar about it. For the actual essay, it was ~2 weeks but they worked on revising and reviewed the mechanics of quotes during that time.

I always think they can be doing more writing, but the PP was misrepresenting what happens at DHMS. They do have homework and they do write more than a paragraph. 
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