Reply to 9th grade honors English update

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "9th grade honors English update"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can’t find the thread from earlier this year but just thought I’d note that we are 2.5 months into the school year and so far my kid has only read only one short novel in honors English.  With no news as to whether or when they will read a second one.  I heard another class at her school just started their third — I really don’t think it’s fair that there is so much variation between different sections of what is supposed to be the same class.  
We looked recently at a private HS and they are reading 8-10 novels per year.  I am sure those kids aren’t better readers than ours.  I’m really perplexed by this because it doesn’t seem like it would be that much more work for the teachers to assign more books.  Especially when they are such short ones. [/quote]

I teach at a private high school.  Our kids read a lot of novels, but they don't read any in the first semester of freshman year.  They read Greek myth, world myth, and two classic plays, one ancient Greek and one Shakespeare.  The honors kids substitute the Odyssey, which is an epic novel, for the ancient Greek play.

I think that starting with shorter texts, which provide lots of time for writing, is a pretty standard thing for freshman English classes.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics