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English Teachers Chatboard TOP POSTS ALL POSTS SUBMIT POST Search Teachers.Net Advanced You're on the... English Teachers Chatboard top posts | all posts | submit post Make English Teachers Chatboard a Favorite! We also recommend... Language Arts Center English Lesson Plans English Teacher Mailring Lesson Plans • Math • Language Arts • Science • Social Studies • Music • Art & Crafts • Phys Ed • Other Teacher Chatboards • latest posts • by subject • by grade level • by state • all chatboards • language arts center • technology center • foreign language center • hot topics • interest groups Teaching Jobs Classroom Projects Teacher Mailrings Teachers.Net Gazette • Current Issue • Harry Wong Column • Teacher Classified Ads • Classroom Printables next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Re: MarjoryT or others: Length of Units Posted by Robert F on 9/01/08 City Teacher, thank you for responding. Yes, the situation is far from ideal. Other teachers and I have argued against the "no homework" policy, to no avail. The response is that they won't do it anyway. I'd like to see us strategize about how to overcome that, but it doesn't look like the policy will change soon. The units will simply have to last more than seven days.Another concern is that we tend to get new students about every four weeks, which is especially tough if you are in the middle of a novel. I guess we will have to tell students that in that case they must do some reading for homework. RF On 9/01/08, city teacher wrote: > > i teach in a large urban school district. I have never had > sufficient numbers of books to be able to assign reading > outside of class. Sad to say, that although as English > teachers we are supposed to be working to instill a love of > reading in our students, many inner city teachers cannot > imagine the luxury of having books to send home with our > students. I can't imagine doing a novel in 3 to 7 days, since > we have to read in class. With all the usual scheduling > interruptions plus trying to include grammar, etc., we > usually try to cover four novels in a school yar. it is far > from ideal, but it is making the best of what we have > available. RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one MarjoryT or others: Length of Units, 9/01/08, by Robert F. Re: MarjoryT or others: Length of Units, 9/01/08, by city teacher. Re: MarjoryT or others: Length of Units, 9/01/08, by Robert F. Re: MarjoryT or others: Length of Units, 9/01/08, by city teacher. Re: MarjoryT or others: Length of Units, 9/01/08, by Robert F. Re: MarjoryT or others: Length of Units, 9/01/08, by Robert F. Re: Marjoryt responds: divide the work into units, 9/02/08, by marjoryt, how has been in your shoes. Re: Wow! Thanks so much, Marjory NFM, 9/02/08, by Robert F.

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