rhetorical distillation 2

Recalling In the Article called ‘’Rethink Homework’’ Reveals that teachers should not be assigned  homework. That if they were to that assignments should be spaced out through several days and not take the students an unreasonable amount of time to complete it. To get the student to learn from it instead of doing it just to get it over with. One of several effects to homework are that their relationship with their Parents is non existent due to having hours and hours of homework to do when they get home from school. Also to try to hang with friends and have a social life is out of the question with homework. Students should go home and chose what they want to do with their time instead of homework.  Also to be handling a sport of after school activity is nearly impossible. Noted by teachers figuring out with homework that some students can get frustrated with the assignment and just stop doing it or only complete half the assignments . To get student to fall into a pattern to  start   developing  bad grades and study habits for tests because they never could understand the concept. The  Author’s purpose for discussing  ‘’rethink homework’’ should be more of a learning experience than an  assignment that they have to do. Showing that  there is not many benefits  to how homework is being assigned and learned.  Alternative ways to learning assignments should be enforced. . Also if the students has more time on  that  one homework assignment it will just be done to finish and not well thought out if it was the only one they had to do that night. The struggle of keeping up with everything in order to do well is impossible with more than one homework assignment to do . The audience in the article ‘’Rethink Homework’ discussed throughout this article are teachers, students, administration and students parents.


   Author: Alfie Khon  Ethos/Credibility: That homework is not being assigned to teach the students what they learned in class. That teachers are not putting in enough effort in how every student learns differently and that they need to think of an alternative way to teach.  

 Objectivity/Bias: How teachers are just piling on homework instead of giving the students tools for being successful. That kids are just getting way too much homework and not enough time to complete it. But has a sub objective way of thinking that he believes is right and everyone else is wrong.  

 Sources/Support: Getting assignments after assignment sand the student is not learning anything from it because they don't understand it. The parents are trying to support and help as much as they can.  

Thesis: Strong and got to the point     

Tone: That the Students are getting frustrated with homework. Parents are feeling like they are the bad guy for asking their children to stop doing homework so they can spend time with them during the evening.  

Opinion: I agree that students are getting too much homework and get overwhelmed with it. Teachers need to take into consideration that we have lives and we like to do things after school rather than homework. Sometimes the assignment can get hard and you end up not finishing it because you get so stressed out and all you want to do is walk away from it . Because we just want to leave school without homework. That homework should be a teachable moment not something that we have to do because we will fail if we don’t. That it should relate to something in daily life. That it should be a hands on worksheet that maybe could teach us something for the real world. Also to not take hours and hours to do it should minutes worth of work. So that we can go out into the world and use what we learned in school to do daily tasks that we need to do .












"Rethinking Homework - Alfie Kohn." Alfie Kohn. N.p., 02 Feb. 2007. Web. 04 Oct. 2015.