English 9 honors or World civ honors (combo of history and English)?

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Anonymous wrote:My child took the World Civilizations course at Chantilly High and did well after being in the AAP program in middle school.

The Language Arts and social studies teachers at my child's middle school prepared them well for the content of the World Civilizations course. It was understandably more challenging than the middle school courses were but my child faced a more noticeable challenge moving from AAP elementary school to AAP middle school than they did transitioning from middle school to high school because the writing demands were far more intense even in seventh and eighth grades. Elementary school didn't challenge my child to be a better writer, but middle school did and high school understandably had even higher expectations.

The teachers of the World Civilizations course were undeniably tough graders but they were not unfair. They made expectations clear, taught the content and process, provided feedback throughout the assignments and assessed accordingly. I believe my child who was enrolled in World Civilizations was better prepared for AP English than had been my older child who did not take the combined course.

How long ago was this? I have a 9th and 7th grader who went to Rocky Run, the AAP center for Chantilly, and they have done almost zero writing for middle school. And not much reading. In AAP.

+1 Carson AAP here and same for us. Very little writing. They have done some novels but pretty disappointing overall - mostly graphic ones.

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How did this class go for your student? My rising 9th grader at Woodson is signed up for it, but I'm worried it's not the right fit.

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Why isn't this class offered everywhere? Doesnt seem very equitable.

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DD took it at Woodson and thought it was a good class. It really prepared her well for upper level English and history. Her writing improved so much, and I find the connections to nonfiction more useful than the standard analyzing of literature that’s the focus in many English classes. Grading seemed fair. My younger DS is signed up for it next year as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Why isn't this class offered everywhere? Doesnt seem very equitable.

Probably has to be a willingness on the part of the teachers. It is really a team effort. If the teachers do not work well together, the class won't work.

DD took it and loved it.

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My kid tried to sign up for a similar thing senior year with honors Eng 12 and AP Gov and it got cancelled bc not enough kids signed up ( more prob do the Super Sem with 2 APs instead).

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I took world civ in 9th grade at Woodson back in the 1990s and it was life changing. Best class I ever took. I’m sure it’s different now since the teachers are different, but I can’t imagine not having taken it.

Shout out to Mr Hudenburg!

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Anonymous wrote:I took world civ in 9th grade at Woodson back in the 1990s and it was life changing. Best class I ever took. I’m sure it’s different now since the teachers are different, but I can’t imagine not having taken it.

Shout out to Mr Hudenburg!

That’s awesome!

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Oh and back in the 90s I remember the papers we had to do- one about an artist and one about a musician- we drew the name of each out of a hat. Had to be minimum 10 pages which felt insurmountable at the time and we couldn’t use the the verb “to be” 😂

So we couldn’t say “Mozart was a great composer. He was born on X date”. We had to be like “Mozart, born on X date, composed great music”.

Seemed crazy at the time but like I said- life changing! I still recognize those composers on 90.9 in the car sometimes. I’m like oh yeah that sounds an awful lot like Dvorak.

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Anonymous wrote:Why isn't this class offered everywhere? Doesnt seem very equitable.

Probably has to be a willingness on the part of the teachers. It is really a team effort. If the teachers do not work well together, the class won't work.

DD took it and loved it.

Still inequitable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why isn't this class offered everywhere? Doesnt seem very equitable.

Probably has to be a willingness on the part of the teachers. It is really a team effort. If the teachers do not work well together, the class won't work.

DD took it and loved it.

Still inequitable.

Why? Do you know what is inequitable? IBvsAP