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Adams-Friendship American Experience
  • History and Literature Units
    • American Issues: Present - 1980
    • The Cold War: 1980-1945
    • Wars of the 20th Century
    • Social and Cultural Change: 1945 - 1890
    • Reconstruction: 1898 - 1865
    • Slavery >
      • Uncle Tom's Cabin
      • Stowe's Homes
      • Uncle Tom: Compliment or Insult?
    • Ante-Bellum America (Pre-Civil War) >
      • The Scarlet Letter
    • The American Revolution
  • Units
    • Writing Units >
      • Pacing
      • MLA Formatting and Structures
      • Sentence Fluency
      • Fancy Punctuation
      • Sequencing
      • Active and Passive Voice
      • Speed and Automaticity
      • Rhetoric
      • Professional Presentation
    • 7 Themes of History
    • Final Exam
  • Class Calendar
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    • Anchor Papers
    • Grade Contract
    • American Experience Procedures
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    • Ms. Ringelspaugh and Mr. Palmer
    • Top 10 Things to Know about American Experience
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Former Student Testimony
    • Photo Gallery
    • Homework Philosophy
    • Technology Philosophy
    • How to Come to Class Prepared
    • Late Work and Reassessment Policy
    • Avoiding Plagerism
    • Achieve 3000
    • Remind 101
    • Growth Mindset
    • The ACT
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American Experience Homework Philosophy

Yep, you're going to have homework.

In order to provide you with a rigorous, college-prep, Advanced Placement pace and load, we will assign you homework.  Some nights you may have only a little homework, some nights you may have an hour of homework.  We think that homework is important to help you practice and improve your skills and content knowledge.  That said, we have some rules for ourselves when we assign you homework.  We, your teachers, will  make sure every homework assignment fits these rules, or we won't assign it as homework.

American Experience Homework Philosophy:

1.  Homework will be purposeful and directly connected to a specific learning goal.  In fact, the homework will have the learning goal(s) and rubric(s) on the top of the assignment paper or on the assignment blog post.

2.  Homework is formative assessment.  It's designed to introduce you to skills or content, help you practice skills, or help you refine skills or content knowledge.  

3.  We will always work with the homework in class the day that it is due.  If we assign reading, then we'll be discussing the reading.  If we assign a podcast or video, then we'll be building on that basic knowledge in class.  It's very important to do your homework on time so you can participate in class.

4.  You will always get feedback on your homework--sometimes from your teachers, sometimes from your peers, sometimes from yourself.

5.  Homework will have clear deadlines.  You'll know all the deadlines ahead of time.  Check the calendar.  Since we will always be working with homework in class on the day that the homework is due, Mr. Palmer and Ms. Ringelspaugh will not give teacher feedback on homework after the due date.

6.  Homework will always be accessable. You'll be able to do it at home.   If we ask for on-line work, the homework will have a later due date so you can schedule internet time or we will have the materials available to download onto your thumb drive for off-line access. 

7.  Homework can be differentiated.  You may take more or less time than your classmates to make sure you practice the skills completely.  You and Ms. Ringelspaugh or Mr Palmer may decide you need more specific help or differentation with your homework; we'll work that out with you specificlly in advance.
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