A Guide for Teachers - February 1998 Tips for Getting Homework Done 10. Many creative and rewarding homework assignments draw upon resources that are close at hand. Barbara Renoux teaches in a district with 2,100 students encompassing 88,000 square miles on the northern tip of Alaska. Her school in Point Lay, which has 83 students, is an hour's plane ride west of district headquarters in Barrow. So Ms. Renoux assigns a book or a poem that students are expected to read to their parents and to five other adults.
Students collect signatures from each listener.
They ask the janitor. They ask the principal. They ask their grandparents. They ask their cousins. At the end of the quarter, students with a certain number of stickers are allowed to camp out at the school, where they swim in the community pool and use the computer room.