Homework: studying on your own

[Music] oh hi there I'm Chuck Davis these are my friends this is Jean nickel hello Bob and Donkey aureus and Stan manager here hi the four of us are here to talk about homework now we've got the movies we made to show you some of our problems of homework and some of the ways we've found to handle them get the light read Stan's maybe you wonder why you have homework can you remember when you were back in grade school the teacher was there to help you with your work and most of your studying was done in class you probably didn't have much homework then in high school your teacher still helps you in class but also gives you a lot more outside assignments in college most of your studying will be on your own and if you do any studying after you're out of school you'll find that you're almost completely on your own so you see the further you go in your studies the more you have to study on your own that's homework and what about these problems Jean well I have a homework problem it's a problem that a lot of you probably have it's the problem where to do your homework we took these movies at my place this is the apartment I live in with my parents it's not a very big one and I'd only have my own room to work in that means there are lots of distractions in the evening when dad is home the radio is playing it you can hear it all over the house and mother and dad have a lot to talk about I want to quiet thanks for doing homework so I try to get my homework done right after school I really should help mother get dinner ready but we have a bargain she gets dinner ready and I clean up afterwards I can arrange the dining room as I want it plenty of light my study material spread out so I can use them the ratio is off and nobody's talking and I can get my work done in the evening if I still have work to do I could have said mother to be quiet and turn off the radio but I really don't want to do that so I usually go to the library [Music] so you see finding a place to do my homework in it it's always a problem for me but I managed to solve it by working things out with my family but Stan here well he's got a different problem that's right Chuck here's where I live yes it's a farm and from the time the school bus gets me home until I can get up to my room after supper I've been kept pretty busy with the chores a lot of you don't have free time in the afternoon either especially you fellows who go out for school sports and those of you who work after school we just don't have as much time for our homework as others do so I'd do it this way I don't wait till I get home to start my homework I start in school during study periods I plan my homework ahead for some assignments I need books or special references these of course I plan to do in the library at school for other assignments I need only textbooks in my notebook these I plan to do at home then I try to make a rough schedule to divide up the time I have for doing my assignments I give so much time to each subject I found out that schedules help me make the most of the time I have so when I get to work at home I know exactly what I have to do and I have my materials already because I planned it that way another thing I know how much time I have of course there are some things you can't always plan you know how it is so my family has to help me carry out my plan when my sister bothers me while I'm working I count on mom and dad to help and that's good because when I can follow my plan I can get my homework done so even though I have only limited time for doing my homework I can't get it done by planning well take care of me uh-huh well I have plenty of time and I have a rule of my own but I still have a problem Chuck when you study in school it's usually quiet and others are studying and you're expected to study and that helps me study but at home well they're just up to me and they're always a lot of things I can think of to do besides study even horsing around with my kid brothers and even when I know it's time to start my homework I can think of a lot of things I could do first I could wait just a few minutes until dad finished the paper or I could call up Sally and talk to her just for a few minutes or sharpen a few pencils first seems like I could do anything except study and take such a big effort for me to get started I just grit my teeth and start right in that's the only way for me to solve my problem I start with a hardest subject if I don't I keep thinking about it and I don't do a very good job in my other work if I get it done at all another thing I found when I come to a heart problem and I start thinking about it sometimes I let my mind wander and I just sort of daydream and off I go into the wild blue yonder but I don't get my homework done that way it's just keeping at it that gets it done the live found that homework is really just studying on your own and that means being able to make yourself studying can get the job done that's all yeah well then I I guess you've heard our story homework is important and we've shown you some of the problems you can run up against but it isn't too hard to solve them it's just a matter of planning and organizing your work getting some done at school scheduling your work at home having a good place to study working problems out with your parents and getting used to studying on your own that's all if you really want to get something out of homework and I think you do well we've shown you what we've found it's up to you to take it from here [Music]