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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m an IB English teacher. I love the program and placed my own children in it.

IB English is rigorous and extremely writing focused. There’s a curriculum change on the horizon, but currently students: 
- read 13 texts over 2 years (Many units end with essays to prep for the course-end assessments)
- complete the Higher Level essay, which is literary analysis assessed by IB 
- complete the Individual Oral, which is a 15 minute oral assessment. (This is a tricky task. Students are only allowed ten bullet points and they must speak for a sustained ten minutes.) 
- sit for the Paper 1 and Paper 2 exams at the end of senior year

The course develops strong writers and critical thinkers. I highly recommend it. [/quote]

+1 my child has grown tremendously as a writer and analytical thinker from these classes. There's no comparison with Honors English, but that would be better for a kid who dislikes writing.[/quote]

There's a little bit of confusion about terminology here. IB English is only available in 11th and 12th grades. If a school does not have an IB program, the advanced 11th and 12th graders would be taking AP Composition and AP Literature, not Honors English.

Now, the only exception is if you are in an IB magnet, in which case you are in pre-IB English in 9th and 10th. But that's only possible at RMIB and the regional IB magnet programs, not at a school like B-CC or Einstein that just happens to host an IB program in 11th and 12th grades.

Bottom line: enrichment is available in 11th and 12th regardless of whether your school has an IB program. Enrichment is only available in 9th and 10th if you are in a magnet, either IB or Humanities. [/quote]

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