How to Go from Planner

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How to Go from Planner

• To a Completed Assignment
• Submitted for a Grade

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Step One

• The Planner
• Also called an Assignment Notebook
• It must have dates like a calendar.
• This is used to write assignments class by class.
• Write the assignment on the date its given and
  also on the date its due.

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Step Two

• Homework Location
• As a Seventh Grader, it will help if you have a
  regular place where you plan and carry out all
  homework assignments.
• Many of you might need a separate Homework
  Location in more than one parents house.

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Step Two

• Setting up for Homework Location(s)
• If you have a desk, keep pencils, paper, stapler,
  dictionary and such items handy.
• Make the location personal. If its in a place
  others use, get a box or crate to keep your work
  in.
• If you have little siblings around, keep the box
  out of reach.
• Have a wastebasket nearby.

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Step Two

• For Parents
• Dont use your students homework location as
  YOUR source for supplies, such as paper, tape or
  pencils.
• Teach your student to be responsible for keeping
  his/her homework materials organized.

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Step Two

• Supplies
• A-Day/B-Day Calendar
• Spiral Notebook (any size) for keeping track day
  by day of work pending.
• Paper, pencils or pens, tape, stapler, scissors,
  etc.
• Reference materials
• A brightly colored folder

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Lets Review

• Step One
• Write assignments in planner.
• Step Two
• Have a homework location ready to go when you get
  home every day.

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Step Three

• Checking your planner
• This is the one a lot of students miss.
• Be sure you take your planner home every day.
• Open your planner to recent assignments. Also
  open your spiral notebook and write tomorrows
  date.

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Step Three

• Make a plan of action!
• Check if tomorrow is an A- or a B-Day.
• For each of tomorrows classes, write down what
  is due for that day.

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Step Three

• Keep planning!
• After tomorrows assignments, write the next
  days work.
• Also write any long-term assignments or work due
  in more than two days.

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Step Three

• Include all reading assignments for Language Arts
  and other classes.
• For example, you might write,To Kill a
  Mockingbird, read through chapter 20 by next
  Wednesday.

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Step Four

• Get busy, and get the work done.
• You must complete at least everything due
  tomorrow.

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Step Four

• You should start planning the work thats due
  later. When will you work on that?

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Step Five

• Place the completed assignments in the brightly
  colored folder.

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(Almost) the Most Important Step

• This folder is your key to handing in all work in
  all classes tomorrow.
• Make sure you take the folder to school each day.
• Check the folder in each class, and submit that
  work!

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The Key to Parents Making Sure Homework is
Completed

• Do not ask your child, Do you have any
  homework?
• Do ask your child, Let me see what you have
  written down.

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Step Six

• Ill bet you thought you were done! Right!
• Not!

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Step Six

• The next evening, in the spiral notebook,
  continue with the assignments you did not
  complete yesterday.
• Add new assignments from todays classes and your
  planner.

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Step Six

• Keep the spiral notebook up to date.
• Add all assignments every day.
• You will learn to rank assignments,
• For tomorrow
• For later this week
• Long-term, to get started on

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_at_Kathy Alvis PattersonClassen School of Advanced
Studies

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• 2007