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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All American Boys 
But they will also be reading Of Mice and Men 
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Of Mice & Men is a choice in MP2. And it's super short. Why couldn't they read both of these in MP1?[/quote]

Totally agree.  My HS English class in 1986 probably read twice as many books.  I remember we read Great Expectations, catcher in the rye, Frankenstein, a Shakespeare play, the Iliad, and I’m sure there were a couple more I’m forgetting now (maybe Huck Finn?)  And I went to public school in a random state so I feel like it’s achievable for McPS.  [/quote]

Note that Shakespeare and poetry are covered in the English classes but its usually not listed as the quarterly novel or reading.[/quote]

Romeo and a Juliet is an option (not a requirement) in Q4. There is no other Shakespeare in 9th grade English. [/quote]

Is that not enough? How much Shakespeare do your think really needs to be done in a school year? [/quote]

I'd expect 6-8 books a year.  One Shakespeare is fine but when we got it in 9th, kids watched a video and were not given a copy of the book or the normal pdf version.  We purchased it.  There were two books, one audiobook (again, no physical copy) and one video for 9th.  Now AP English and no books to date.[/quote]

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