Written assignments for high school

[hsmomto5]

I would love to know how you assign work to your high schooler. Do you do a daily assignment sheet or maybe a sheet that says what has to be done by the end of the week; or maybe a semster syllabus??? I would like to get away from spoon feeding him his assignments and help him to learn better time management.

I would love some ideas.

Thanks!

Lora in NC

[Cedarmom]

I started with a daily assignment sheet in 9th grade. Later we went to weekly. Now I do a syllabus that is about 6 weeks or so. I have toyed with doing one for the semester, but it is nice to have flexibility. We may decide to delve deeper into a subject then we at first planned, or go quicker through something (great book reading). I do check his work each week though, to make sure he is keeping up to date. My son still needs some accountability.

[Orthodox6]

Daily assignment sheet. This is not because I want to "spoon feed" a student, but because I have no time to prepare for more than one day at a time.

[FloridaLisa]

For junior high up through about 10th grade, I used a weekly assignment sheet, broken down by day. My 11th grader had many outsourced classes this year -- between on-line, dual enrollment and co-op. Each of those classes had syllabi and he was accountable to an outside teacher. For math, his only at-home class, he just worked through the book.

 

Lisa

[TravelingChris]

I don't give my daughter assignments in most classes. Why? Well in Lightning Lit she gets the assignments as well as in ALEKS math, Life of Fred, and BJU SPanish. SHe got hung up with chemistry and we are using a new text for a while and I do give her assignments for that but I have gone back to teaching her this. Her other subjects are again self- taught. She reads her American History, studies for the test, and then does both a multiple choice and essay test. Her intro to music involves her listening to lectures. Her geography which she is finishing up involves watching videos and finishing her mapwork. SHe does most subjects every day and is very self motivated so I don't need to interfere. She is the one who is most worried about not doing enough.

 

Now my almost seventh grade is different. She thrives on written assignments. I will still write hers out both weekly and daily next year.

[Karenciavo]

I spend my summers mapping out the year and then my high schoolers fill in their own weekly schedule from that.

[Peela]

A weekly sheet divided into 5 days. No times- just a list of assignments per day. But the responsibility is on the child to finish anything not finished, in their own time on another day, so it effectively is a weekly assignment sheet, just broken down into days for convenience.

[mamaof2andtwins]

I make a weekly assignment sheet. We use Homeschool Tracker, so I just print that.

 

Jennie

[Pamela H in Texas]

Like Peela, I use a weekly sheet. DS does tend to think of it as "the work in the first box is done on Monday...." but what doesn't get done Monday can be done Tuesday. Also, he knows that he must complete the week's work for certain privileges. That encourages him to "think outside the box" (literally <hee hee>).

 

With my daughter, we had MUCH longer goals. In the text, for example, I might have written, "Ch 7-11 by Nov 14; Ch 12-15 by Dec 13th...." So, she could decide what to do and how to do it along the way. We tweaked as we determined was necessary. If she needed only every other odd in a math section, that was fine. If she hit a snag, she could do more. She was responsible to figure out what she needed for a particular problem set.

[hsmomto5]

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