In some ways, I understand the "suck it up" and just get your points, but I feel like she does "suck it up" doing the homework that she doesn't need or enjoy. She knows that if she just sits down and does it then it's an hour or so out of her afternoon. (She gets all of her weekly homework on Monday and can do all of it or just what is assigned for each day.) Typically she bangs it all out on Monday.
The AR thing is really the only issue she is bucking about. So, I thought I might take a chance that we could work something out that is more interesting to her. She actually likes research and writing and that sounds like a better skill to be practiced rather than remembering details of a book for an ABC test.
IMHO