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[quote=Anonymous]My kid goes to a private school that is known as pretty rigorous, and he has had art projects in English class. It is usually one of the options for wrapping up a unit on a novel - you can write a paper or create something that explores some theme in the novel and write an artists statement (essentially a short essay). If the point of the unit is to read and analyze literature you can do that in other ways that just writing - discussion, essays, long papers, art. I believe English class should always include a heavy writing component, but there is still time for some other methods. My husband who is now a professional writer told me yesterday that he never wrote in high school. Not a paper, not an essay. It was a rural school in the 80’s, but still I was gobsmacked. Did give me hope that my kid still has time to become a better writer than he currently is in 12th grade.[/quote]
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