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[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]

I went to Hoover and Churchill in the 90’s. We read lots of books in 8th grade - but the one I remember is Of Mice and Men because it made me cry. We read Great Expectations in 9th grade English. I read the Odyssey and Dandelion Wine (such a weird book - that’s all I remember) in 10th. I think we read a bunch of short stories every year. We read a bunch of Shakespeare (taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet in middle school). My English teachers were pretty good. I think 9th and 12th grade were the best. It’s frustrating how things have changed. My middle schooler is clearly not a reader and mcps is not going to be able to rope her into reading. Luckily, my younger kid is in a CES program, so she gets particularly amazing teachers and lots of books to dissect. It forces me to see how my older kid missed out… but she is still doing well in school.[/quote]

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