How a Family Tree Connection Made History Homework More Meaningful

Pages and pages of History review to end the 2nd quarter of my daughter’s 8th grade year cost her the entire Sunday evening this past weekend. She had already worked half of the afternoon on Math. I walked into the dining room to find her staring at the page in disbelief – and doing nothing. It was after eight and she still had seventeen sentences to write. So I sat down to help her break the task down into mentally manageable pieces. Her review required her to write a sentence about each...