Clearly your principal is confused s/he thinks all 80 minutes
should come from l/a. I guess that's a given. Since you are
expected to come up with so much that you can't check it (if
they do it). Why don't you saay that you are expected to read
for x number of minutes each night. It doesn't matter if it's
newspaper, magazine or book. If that doesn't satisfy your
principal, have the students watch the news each night, and
write a summary of one of the stories. Have them deliver the
news the next day. Call on random students throughout the week
so everybody has to do it once or twice and you won't have to
check anything. Who knows, they might even like it.

On 11/06/09, trying to get by wrote:
> I need some serious advice fast! I don't want this thread
> to turn into a debate about homework because I can't do
> anything about having to assign it. I just need to get
> people off my back.
>
> I teach 8th grade language arts and have for five years.
> Our district has decided to mandate homework and follow the
> guideline of 10 minutes x student grade level. That
> obviously means my 8th graders should have 80 minutes per
> night.

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