No more homework: graphic organizer

1: What is the authors purpose?
    Expository/informative

2:what is the author's main idea within this article?
To inform us how Maryland school is taking away homework and is replacing it with reading for 30 minutes.

3: Provide evidence to support his/her main idea.
The title and the first sentence

4: With what ideas do you agree?
Mostly just reading more.

5: With what ideas do you disagree?
The no homework- The kids will not be ready for high school or college.

6: what connections can you make with the text?
world

7:how can i become more participant in my learning? How can i take responsibility for my learning?
Pay attention more and not get syracted

technology!

 The article is deffinently informative.. now i agree with more technology to some extent. For me i still think its better to take your own notes then to text them with a phone or something... I think it is alot to go back and make changes when need to be then backspacing alot.. just my opinion though. Also what if they lose power in the middle of taking notes? The tutor is a really really good idea.. but i dont really know about the rest. Who knows maybe i will use it somewhere down the line.. but for now i will stick with a pencil/pen and paper. old fashioned but oh well.

books I want to read before i kick the bucket

1: matched - ally condie
2: crossed - ally condie
3: A thousand splendid suns - khaled hosseini
4: the book thief - markus zusak
5: the hunger games (all)
6: all the harry potter books - j.k rowling
7: the list -
8: delerium,pandemonium,requiem - Lauren Oliver
9: leaving paradise - Simone elkeles
10: return to paradise - Simone elkeles