Article April 20, 1963 Issue

The Value of Home Assignments

After having taught for some years a class of young pupils who could not read, a teacher in a branch church Sunday School was assigned to a class of teenage pupils. This was a great challenge, for the older pupils required proof of the statements made to them, and a different approach in the presentation of the lessons was needed.

Several pupils were new to the study of Christian Science; so the teacher decided to mail to the pupils the first of each week home assignments consisting of questions to be used in the study of the Lesson-Sermon, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly.

The number of questions varied each week, depending upon the adaptability of the subject matter to problems of interest to teenagers. The questions were chronological; but there was no relationship between the numbers of the questions and the citation numbers in the Lesson-Sermon. The pupils then had to read the entire lesson to find all the answers. The questions were phrased so that they would be interesting and thought-provoking to the pupils, and they came to class well prepared to take part in the lively discussion which resulted from their study.

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