Middle school english curriculum

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader is almost through the first reader in CKLA (Latin American voices I believe) and they are starting lit circles next week. They are starting Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas soon, too, and going on the field trip to the Frederick Douglas house. There has been regular reading and grammar homework sent home, and teacher said at BTSN that HW will become nightly soon. This is night-and-day different from any prior instruction in MCPS, MS or ES.

Are they skipping Frankenstein?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After some investigating, it appears that my daughter’s teacher at a DCC middle school is primarily using the CKLA version for emergent English learners for whole-class instruction.

I’m curious whether students in other parts of the county are receiving workbooks or the MCPS binded collections of instructional materials instead. I would love to see a 6th-grade English syllabus from schools outside the DCC to better understand how curriculum and materials may differ across the county.

If anyone is willing to share their school’s syllabus or provide insight into the materials their 6th graders are using, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance.

At the very least, go to coreknowledge.org and download the free Activity Book and Teacher Guide for the units, and your daughter can be doing the vocabulary, etc. from the more advanced book (the ELL book is there too, so you can compare the differences).

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know what Julius west is using? I’ve been looking through my 6th grader’s work and it doesn’t appear to be CKLA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what Julius west is using? I’ve been looking through my 6th grader’s work and it doesn’t appear to be CKLA.

There should be a syllabus in mymcps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what Julius west is using? I’ve been looking through my 6th grader’s work and it doesn’t appear to be CKLA.

There should be a syllabus in mymcps

You would think so, but it’s not there. I’ve also been through my kid’s notebook which has syllabii for math, social studies, science and Spanish, but not English.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After some investigating, it appears that my daughter’s teacher at a DCC middle school is primarily using the CKLA version for emergent English learners for whole-class instruction.

I’m curious whether students in other parts of the county are receiving workbooks or the MCPS binded collections of instructional materials instead. I would love to see a 6th-grade English syllabus from schools outside the DCC to better understand how curriculum and materials may differ across the county.

If anyone is willing to share their school’s syllabus or provide insight into the materials their 6th graders are using, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance.

Is your daughter is in a class with numerous English Language learners? If so, then what would you prefer they do? Teach two curriculums simultaneously? This is the primary reason that MCPS needs to do away with “honors for all.”

Even honors for all has ELD students in a separate class. Those class are under the ELD listings, not English. For example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tlr_B-DC5YOgrnPqN51OKyJOL7zZALUF/view

The PP you responded to should be speaking with the English content specialist and the relevant AP at her school. Non-ELD students should be getting the regular CKLA curriculum. And if that doesn’t happen even after speaking with the school, she should escalate to the secondary English department in central office and the school’s principal. -DP

This is not the case for every middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader is almost through the first reader in CKLA (Latin American voices I believe) and they are starting lit circles next week. They are starting Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas soon, too, and going on the field trip to the Frederick Douglas house. There has been regular reading and grammar homework sent home, and teacher said at BTSN that HW will become nightly soon. This is night-and-day different from any prior instruction in MCPS, MS or ES.

Are they skipping Frankenstein?

Yes. They are doing all other units.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After some investigating, it appears that my daughter’s teacher at a DCC middle school is primarily using the CKLA version for emergent English learners for whole-class instruction.

I’m curious whether students in other parts of the county are receiving workbooks or the MCPS binded collections of instructional materials instead. I would love to see a 6th-grade English syllabus from schools outside the DCC to better understand how curriculum and materials may differ across the county.

If anyone is willing to share their school’s syllabus or provide insight into the materials their 6th graders are using, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance.

Is your daughter is in a class with numerous English Language learners? If so, then what would you prefer they do? Teach two curriculums simultaneously? This is the primary reason that MCPS needs to do away with “honors for all.”

Even honors for all has ELD students in a separate class. Those class are under the ELD listings, not English. For example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tlr_B-DC5YOgrnPqN51OKyJOL7zZALUF/view

The PP you responded to should be speaking with the English content specialist and the relevant AP at her school. Non-ELD students should be getting the regular CKLA curriculum. And if that doesn’t happen even after speaking with the school, she should escalate to the secondary English department in central office and the school’s principal. -DP

This is not the case for every middle school.

That is exactly why parents need to reach out to the school. They will not be accountable for what they are supposed to do without parental complaints. And parents should escalate if their concerns are not addressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what Julius west is using? I’ve been looking through my 6th grader’s work and it doesn’t appear to be CKLA.

There should be a syllabus in mymcps

You would think so, but it’s not there. I’ve also been through my kid’s notebook which has syllabii for math, social studies, science and Spanish, but not English.

Kid should email the teacher to ask for the syllabus.

[Anonymous]

Here is what they should be learning in each grade:

English 6:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aZeAlNINm8fHAAVyVNbwJcQ1u14vK-b52qRjF_V1zx0/edit?tab=t.0

English 7: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GbCzfM3glwSUsf1DSYrYvCDhz4JgECgsStTaHLk8J3I/edit?tab=t.0

English 8: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HinKw5UZlW-7_hwMIktrkK045jnmSWd9JyEM191GgOg/edit?tab=t.0

If your child is not doing this curriculum (and is not in the humanities magnet), start with their teacher. If needed, escalate, starting with the content specialist and AP and then moving up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is what they should be learning in each grade:

English 6:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aZeAlNINm8fHAAVyVNbwJcQ1u14vK-b52qRjF_V1zx0/edit?tab=t.0

English 7: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GbCzfM3glwSUsf1DSYrYvCDhz4JgECgsStTaHLk8J3I/edit?tab=t.0

English 8: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HinKw5UZlW-7_hwMIktrkK045jnmSWd9JyEM191GgOg/edit?tab=t.0

If your child is not doing this curriculum (and is not in the humanities magnet), start with their teacher. If needed, escalate, starting with the content specialist and AP and then moving up.

So yes, they have trimmed even the standard 8th grade CKLA by removing Frankenstein.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is what they should be learning in each grade:

English 6:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aZeAlNINm8fHAAVyVNbwJcQ1u14vK-b52qRjF_V1zx0/edit?tab=t.0

English 7: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GbCzfM3glwSUsf1DSYrYvCDhz4JgECgsStTaHLk8J3I/edit?tab=t.0

English 8: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HinKw5UZlW-7_hwMIktrkK045jnmSWd9JyEM191GgOg/edit?tab=t.0

If your child is not doing this curriculum (and is not in the humanities magnet), start with their teacher. If needed, escalate, starting with the content specialist and AP and then moving up.

So yes, they have trimmed even the standard 8th grade CKLA by removing Frankenstein.

Yes, that was answered above.

They removed 2 units from 6th grade and 1 unit from 7th and 8th grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After some investigating, it appears that my daughter’s teacher at a DCC middle school is primarily using the CKLA version for emergent English learners for whole-class instruction.

I’m curious whether students in other parts of the county are receiving workbooks or the MCPS binded collections of instructional materials instead. I would love to see a 6th-grade English syllabus from schools outside the DCC to better understand how curriculum and materials may differ across the county.

If anyone is willing to share their school’s syllabus or provide insight into the materials their 6th graders are using, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance.

Is your daughter is in a class with numerous English Language learners? If so, then what would you prefer they do? Teach two curriculums simultaneously? This is the primary reason that MCPS needs to do away with “honors for all.”

Even honors for all has ELD students in a separate class. Those class are under the ELD listings, not English. For example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tlr_B-DC5YOgrnPqN51OKyJOL7zZALUF/view

The PP you responded to should be speaking with the English content specialist and the relevant AP at her school. Non-ELD students should be getting the regular CKLA curriculum. And if that doesn’t happen even after speaking with the school, she should escalate to the secondary English department in central office and the school’s principal. -DP

This is not the case for every middle school.

What do you mean not the case for every middle school? The PP is correct that non ELD students should be using the regular CKLA version. If not, why not? Have the department resource teacher or AP explain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader is almost through the first reader in CKLA (Latin American voices I believe) and they are starting lit circles next week. They are starting Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas soon, too, and going on the field trip to the Frederick Douglas house. There has been regular reading and grammar homework sent home, and teacher said at BTSN that HW will become nightly soon. This is night-and-day different from any prior instruction in MCPS, MS or ES.

Does your student have a hard copy of the reader or are they just given a selection of printouts of the reader?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader is almost through the first reader in CKLA (Latin American voices I believe) and they are starting lit circles next week. They are starting Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas soon, too, and going on the field trip to the Frederick Douglas house. There has been regular reading and grammar homework sent home, and teacher said at BTSN that HW will become nightly soon. This is night-and-day different from any prior instruction in MCPS, MS or ES.

Does your student have a hard copy of the reader or are they just given a selection of printouts of the reader?

Do you mean the book or the activity set? My kid is reading from an actual bound book but the activities are handouts.