How many books was your seventh grader assigned in seventh grade English?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, so few books for some of these responses.

My 7th grader has to do a “book report” each month, which involves a short oral presentation. So that’s 8 book of his choice.

Then comes the assigned reading, so far he’s done:

The Giver, water ship Down, The Book Thief, and The Pigman

Oh sorry Private school. This is why we moved out of public school. My first had a public education and I never says him do much in English.

This is exactly why we’re sending younger sibling to private for middle school. Older sister read 2.75 books for English over three years and never had to write anything about any of them. They discussed, but no writing. So disappointing.

My 7th grader has a 5 page paper due next week. My older son is in public and 11th grade and hasn’t read or written as much in 3 years of high school as my 7th grader has done this year in private. I’d say my 7th grader could write the papers for my 11th grader if he had any papers to write. Plus our private school incorporates an ilgood amount of public speaking into the curriculum. A public presentation each month is required.

We are at a top 5 private school in DC and I call BS on your statement.

As the PP whose child wasn’t assigned any books to read in 7th grade English, I think that PP is likely telling the truth. Do you have a child in public? I do not think you understand just how little some public schools read and write now.

Have children in both and I’m a private tutor. Often work with students on essay writing which definitely are not 5 pages in grade 7 and very, very infrequently even in upper school grade levels. 3-5 paragraphs are what is taught at middle school level to gain writing skills. Public presentation every month needs to have more context and may not always be purposeful.

What would be 'nonpurposeful" public speaking for a middle school student? Any opportunity to speak in front of other people is purposeful at that age.

The imaginary tutor poster is just insecure that her kids aren’t getting the same
Vigor in school that other privates are offering. This is typical behavior of the dcum insecure. Just because her kids aren’t getting the eduction she could only wish for doesn’t mean others aren’t. This is particularly upsetting for people paying 40k plus in tuition

I’m not the tutor but you comments are all assumptions made out of anger. It’s really silly if you think that it is helping you.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, so few books for some of these responses.

My 7th grader has to do a “book report” each month, which involves a short oral presentation. So that’s 8 book of his choice.

Then comes the assigned reading, so far he’s done:

The Giver, water ship Down, The Book Thief, and The Pigman

Oh sorry Private school. This is why we moved out of public school. My first had a public education and I never says him do much in English.

This is exactly why we’re sending younger sibling to private for middle school. Older sister read 2.75 books for English over three years and never had to write anything about any of them. They discussed, but no writing. So disappointing.

My 7th grader has a 5 page paper due next week. My older son is in public and 11th grade and hasn’t read or written as much in 3 years of high school as my 7th grader has done this year in private. I’d say my 7th grader could write the papers for my 11th grader if he had any papers to write. Plus our private school incorporates an ilgood amount of public speaking into the curriculum. A public presentation each month is required.

We are at a top 5 private school in DC and I call BS on your statement.

As the PP whose child wasn’t assigned any books to read in 7th grade English, I think that PP is likely telling the truth. Do you have a child in public? I do not think you understand just how little some public schools read and write now.

Have children in both and I’m a private tutor. Often work with students on essay writing which definitely are not 5 pages in grade 7 and very, very infrequently even in upper school grade levels. 3-5 paragraphs are what is taught at middle school level to gain writing skills. Public presentation every month needs to have more context and may not always be purposeful.

What would be 'nonpurposeful" public speaking for a middle school student? Any opportunity to speak in front of other people is purposeful at that age.

The imaginary tutor poster is just insecure that her kids aren’t getting the same
Vigor in school that other privates are offering. This is typical behavior of the dcum insecure. Just because her kids aren’t getting the eduction she could only wish for doesn’t mean others aren’t. This is particularly upsetting for people paying 40k plus in tuition

No, it’s one the top 5 privates in DC and 2nd best boys behind Albans. I’m just well aware of the academic at my private in contrast to when my child when in public which has made me very skeptical of how well private truly is. Also, with my tutoring I have insight of the homework and curicullum of both private and public.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, so few books for some of these responses.

My 7th grader has to do a “book report” each month, which involves a short oral presentation. So that’s 8 book of his choice.

Then comes the assigned reading, so far he’s done:

The Giver, water ship Down, The Book Thief, and The Pigman

Oh sorry Private school. This is why we moved out of public school. My first had a public education and I never says him do much in English.

This is exactly why we’re sending younger sibling to private for middle school. Older sister read 2.75 books for English over three years and never had to write anything about any of them. They discussed, but no writing. So disappointing.

My 7th grader has a 5 page paper due next week. My older son is in public and 11th grade and hasn’t read or written as much in 3 years of high school as my 7th grader has done this year in private. I’d say my 7th grader could write the papers for my 11th grader if he had any papers to write. Plus our private school incorporates an ilgood amount of public speaking into the curriculum. A public presentation each month is required.

We are at a top 5 private school in DC and I call BS on your statement.

As the PP whose child wasn’t assigned any books to read in 7th grade English, I think that PP is likely telling the truth. Do you have a child in public? I do not think you understand just how little some public schools read and write now.

Have children in both and I’m a private tutor. Often work with students on essay writing which definitely are not 5 pages in grade 7 and very, very infrequently even in upper school grade levels. 3-5 paragraphs are what is taught at middle school level to gain writing skills. Public presentation every month needs to have more context and may not always be purposeful.

What would be 'nonpurposeful" public speaking for a middle school student? Any opportunity to speak in front of other people is purposeful at that age.

The imaginary tutor poster is just insecure that her kids aren’t getting the same
Vigor in school that other privates are offering. This is typical behavior of the dcum insecure. Just because her kids aren’t getting the eduction she could only wish for doesn’t mean others aren’t. This is particularly upsetting for people paying 40k plus in tuition

Name your school then since you are God.

[Anonymous]

7th grade Honors in Fairfax. None. Zero. Zip.
Impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who are so privileged that they are gaslighting the parents who are posting their honest experiences are hard to watch. (And yes, they are honest; anyone who knows anything about the wide variety in public schools knows that they are honest.) No wonder schools never change. Rich parents who don’t want higher taxes insist all schools are good regardless of the experience of poorer kids in those schools, some of which are terrible, while those same rich parents send their kids to private or to rich public schools. This thread is appalling.

NP here. I agree that the one in private/one in public/ tutor poster was overly smug and confident in saying others are lying, but you go too far in your assumptions about others, too. We send our kid to private, I believe in taxes and think public schools should be better funded and run. I used to teach in public schools and have zero issues believing that not all parents, private or otherwise, have the same experience. You’re not wrong that kids in less wealthy areas are given fewer opportunities, but stay focused on the real issue.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^ For the record, this is DCUM. The vast majority of the people posting here are privileged.

Maybe the majority is privileged, but I’ve been here a long time and I have seen genuine, heartfelt posts from struggling parents who are far, far from privileged. And so what if a majority are privileged? Does that mean the PPs are right to make their blithe assumptions that everyone posting on DCUM sends their kids to a fancy public middle school in a safe suburb? That parents here don’t struggle with public schools that are in terrible shape? Are those posters so steeped in their wealth that they can’t imagine a seventh grade English class that doesn’t get assigned books? Do they even know what the state of books are in some schools? Your kid can’t read books your school can’t even give everybody copies of, you know. But the gaslighting PPs are so blind, so ignorant that they immediately say that the PPs must be lying.

This thread is the definition of “nice white liberal,” the people who at heart don’t want any change so their kids continue to be advantaged, and so gaslight people who have their kids in failing public schools or who have lived school experiences that they can’t even dream about. It is, as I said, appalling.

You are appalling. My child’s private school in DC has 40% of its student’s paid for with aid from other parents and is nearly half minority. Are you providing any aid to a child who is not yours? I think not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Private school:

I can’t remember first semester. I think it was a lot of character development and short stories.

Second semester:
Brown Girl Dreaming
Night
Dystopian themed short stories
To Kill a Mockingbird
A midsummer nights dream (I think that’s the last one of the year.)

My kid did the same + butterfly yellow

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Public. One per quarter every year of MS. There were other short stories, poems, articles, snippets throughout class.

[Anonymous]

Grade 5, Homeschool assigned reading

Hello Universe
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Pax
The War That Saved My Life
The War I Finally Won
The Someday Birds
Counting by 7s
Starry River of the Sky
One Crazy Summer
Coop Knows the Scoop
Ways to Make Sunshine
Brown Girl Dreaming
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Hidden Figures- young readers edition
The Radium Girls- young readers edition
The Disappearing Spoon- young readers edition
Augustus Caesars World
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Tales of Ancient Egypt
The Story of Gilgamesh
The Silk Roads- young readers edition
Ramayana, Divine Loophole
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
The Odyssey- Graphic Novel
The Iliad- Graphic Novel
Art of War- Graphic Novel
Complete Dickens- abridged

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Anonymous wrote:The people who are so privileged that they are gaslighting the parents who are posting their honest experiences are hard to watch. (And yes, they are honest; anyone who knows anything about the wide variety in public schools knows that they are honest.) No wonder schools never change. Rich parents who don’t want higher taxes insist all schools are good regardless of the experience of poorer kids in those schools, some of which are terrible, while those same rich parents send their kids to private or to rich public schools. This thread is appalling.

NP here. I agree that the one in private/one in public/ tutor poster was overly smug and confident in saying others are lying, but you go too far in your assumptions about others, too. We send our kid to private, I believe in taxes and think public schools should be better funded and run. I used to teach in public schools and have zero issues believing that not all parents, private or otherwise, have the same experience. You’re not wrong that kids in less wealthy areas are given fewer opportunities, but stay focused on the real issue.

You probably aren’t the person who is saying that the parents whose kids weren’t assigned any books are lying, though. If you one of the ones who confidently dismissed the lived experiences of other parents in this thread, then yes, that description up above applies to you. If you aren’t, it doesn’t.

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APS

In 7th grade, all of the kids read The Outsiders. It was a long unit with many assignments. And an essay at the end to pull it together.

They also had to do a book presentation on a book of their choice. I think they also did some poetry and kept a journal along with other grammar stuff.


In 8th grade, they needed to read 2,500+ pages per quarter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grade 5, Homeschool assigned reading

Hello Universe
The Boy at the Back of the Class
Pax
The War That Saved My Life
The War I Finally Won
The Someday Birds
Counting by 7s
Starry River of the Sky
One Crazy Summer
Coop Knows the Scoop
Ways to Make Sunshine
Brown Girl Dreaming
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Becoming Muhammad Ali
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Hidden Figures- young readers edition
The Radium Girls- young readers edition
The Disappearing Spoon- young readers edition
Augustus Caesars World
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
Tales of Ancient Egypt
The Story of Gilgamesh
The Silk Roads- young readers edition
Ramayana, Divine Loophole
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
The Odyssey- Graphic Novel
The Iliad- Graphic Novel
Art of War- Graphic Novel
Complete Dickens- abridged

Nice list! Some really great choices.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who are so privileged that they are gaslighting the parents who are posting their honest experiences are hard to watch. (And yes, they are honest; anyone who knows anything about the wide variety in public schools knows that they are honest.) No wonder schools never change. Rich parents who don’t want higher taxes insist all schools are good regardless of the experience of poorer kids in those schools, some of which are terrible, while those same rich parents send their kids to private or to rich public schools. This thread is appalling.

NP here. I agree that the one in private/one in public/ tutor poster was overly smug and confident in saying others are lying, but you go too far in your assumptions about others, too. We send our kid to private, I believe in taxes and think public schools should be better funded and run. I used to teach in public schools and have zero issues believing that not all parents, private or otherwise, have the same experience. You’re not wrong that kids in less wealthy areas are given fewer opportunities, but stay focused on the real issue.

You probably aren’t the person who is saying that the parents whose kids weren’t assigned any books are lying, though. If you one of the ones who confidently dismissed the lived experiences of other parents in this thread, then yes, that description up above applies to you. If you aren’t, it doesn’t.

Not coherent comments, but okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^ For the record, this is DCUM. The vast majority of the people posting here are privileged.

Maybe the majority is privileged, but I’ve been here a long time and I have seen genuine, heartfelt posts from struggling parents who are far, far from privileged. And so what if a majority are privileged? Does that mean the PPs are right to make their blithe assumptions that everyone posting on DCUM sends their kids to a fancy public middle school in a safe suburb? That parents here don’t struggle with public schools that are in terrible shape? Are those posters so steeped in their wealth that they can’t imagine a seventh grade English class that doesn’t get assigned books? Do they even know what the state of books are in some schools? Your kid can’t read books your school can’t even give everybody copies of, you know. But the gaslighting PPs are so blind, so ignorant that they immediately say that the PPs must be lying.

This thread is the definition of “nice white liberal,” the people who at heart don’t want any change so their kids continue to be advantaged, and so gaslight people who have their kids in failing public schools or who have lived school experiences that they can’t even dream about. It is, as I said, appalling.

You are appalling. My child’s private school in DC has 40% of its student’s paid for with aid from other parents and is nearly half minority. Are you providing any aid to a child who is not yours? I think not.

My God. You are one of the worst people I’ve ever encountered on DCUM and that is saying something.

I don’t think you are worthy of anybody answering your question, and I hope nobody else wastes their time on you, but as one of the PPs who is being gaslit by you in this thread, I will answer your incredibly obnoxious question: No, I’m not as rich as you. That’s why my kid went to a public middle school where they didn’t assign any books to read in 7th grade. Now you tell me, from your safe position in your rich private school life, how I am lying about that. You tell me how you know better than I do what my 7th grader did. You tell me all about how my kid’s experience went in a school that is 40% FARMS and far, far more diverse than your fancy private school. You tell me I’m lying and exaggerating about my own life. You tell me, like you already have on this thread, how people like me in public schools you can’t even imagine are exaggerating or lying. And then, you tell me how you aren’t the textbook definition of a horrifying “nice white liberal.”

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people who are so privileged that they are gaslighting the parents who are posting their honest experiences are hard to watch. (And yes, they are honest; anyone who knows anything about the wide variety in public schools knows that they are honest.) No wonder schools never change. Rich parents who don’t want higher taxes insist all schools are good regardless of the experience of poorer kids in those schools, some of which are terrible, while those same rich parents send their kids to private or to rich public schools. This thread is appalling.

NP here. I agree that the one in private/one in public/ tutor poster was overly smug and confident in saying others are lying, but you go too far in your assumptions about others, too. We send our kid to private, I believe in taxes and think public schools should be better funded and run. I used to teach in public schools and have zero issues believing that not all parents, private or otherwise, have the same experience. You’re not wrong that kids in less wealthy areas are given fewer opportunities, but stay focused on the real issue.

You probably aren’t the person who is saying that the parents whose kids weren’t assigned any books are lying, though. If you one of the ones who confidently dismissed the lived experiences of other parents in this thread, then yes, that description up above applies to you. If you aren’t, it doesn’t.

Not coherent comments, but okay.

Maybe you didn’t get assigned reading in 7th grade either. You need to learn how to read.