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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My AAP 7th grader has a couple hours of homework a night and several major tests and projects.  [/quote]

Are you in a TJ feeder? Can you name the school? Maybe I’ll mention this to my kid’s school[/quote]

Does this middle school still read full length novels?[/quote]

I teach 7th grade AAP English. My students read a lot of short stories during 1st quarter vs novels. We do this because the large writing assignment is a personal narrative, which lends itself to short stories as a model. During second quarter we will read full length nonfiction texts and a lot of nonfiction articles. Third and fourth quarter include multiple full length novels as well as some nonfiction article readings that support the text themes. There is more to life/English class than hammering full length novels out all year long. [/quote]

My son is in 7th grade and this is tracks with his experience. But also his English teacher has encouraged his classmates to talk about the books they are reading at home as well. My son has been excited to read classmate recommended books. He has read for pleasure much more this year than last year.   He hasn’t had much homework except math.

My daughter is in high school taking several AP classes after taking FCPS middle school and is doing great. So it definitely preps the kids for high school. [/quote]

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