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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is struggling with honors English. The assignment for mice and men actually looks hard. He has never been taught foreshadowing, symbolism, and analyzing literature in previous years and is [b]confused that a book has more meaning beyond the literal words.[/b] This is a smart kid who went to CES. Is anyone else's kid in the same situation?[/quote]

Did you ever notice any signs of autism or get an eval? This is common with autism.

Most other people intuitively understand and use subtext, even non-academic people of  average intelligence. [/quote]

This was my first thought, also.  I'm surprised if they didn't cover symbolism in MS-- my kid talked about it a lot by 8th grade (in the sense of questioning whether the teacher was reading too much symbolism into texts where authors didn't intend it). Even if it was never covered, it needs to be taught sometime so 9th grade is fine.

If the kid's problem is not catching all of the symbols-- this is normal.  College kids who've studied this for years will have the same problem.  It's also a very subjective process and people won't interpret text the same way, so there's no "right" answer which might be frustrating.  If the problem is that the kid doesn't get the 'idea' that symbolism or foreshadowing exist, then I'd concur with the thought of looking further into possible neurodivergence.[/quote]

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