1. To a Completed Assignment Submitted for a Grade
How to Go from Planner
To a Completed Assignment
Submitted for a Grade

2. Step One The Planner It should have dates like a calendar.
You may use a section of your notebook (not recommended).
This is used to write assignments class by class.
Write the assignment on the date it’s given and also on the date it’s due.

3. 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 parent’s house.

4. Step Two Setting up for Homework Location(s)
If you have a desk, keep pencils, paper, stapler and such items handy.
Make the location personal. If it’s 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.

5. Step Two
For Parents
Don’t use your student’s 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.

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

7. Let’s Review Step One: Write assignments in planner. Step Two:
Have a homework location ready to go when you get home every day.

8. 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 a notebook or notepad and write tomorrow’s date.

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

10. Step Three Keep planning!
After tomorrow’s assignments, write the next day’s work.
Also write any long-term assignments or work due in more than two days.

11. 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.”

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

13. Step Four
You should start planning the work that’s due later. When will you work on that?

14. Step Five
Place the completed assignments in the brightly colored folder.

15. (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!

16. 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.”

17. Step Six
I’ll bet you thought you were done! Right!
Not!

18. Step Six
The next evening, in the notebook, continue with the assignments you did not complete yesterday.
Add new assignments from today’s classes and your planner.

19. Step Six Keep the 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

20. @Kathy Alvis Patterson Classen School of Advanced Studies
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
2007