Do you agree that homework is important, or do you feel that it is over-valued? Take a position on this issue and support it with reasons and specific examples from the article you read and from your own personal experiences.

Homework is important to be used as a form of a way for kids to build up their understanding of the specific subject. Overassigning is the main issue we have, students such as myself spend hours and hours on homework- more than what we spend time on during school. Yes, that is the real world. But, we just like anyone need breaks too. Even though homework is a good way for understanding, it is overassigned and tears our youth apart.

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.