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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]APS has a new ELA curriculum for high school HMH’s Into Literature. Perhaps review the curriculum online and ask your child’s teacher how the curriculum will be applied for the school year. You can be friendly and non combative and just see how the class will align with the mandated curriculum. I am not sure how it works but I believe that the curriculum is a floor and the teacher can assign additional books etc. [/quote]

Do you mean the new "textbook" APS adopted but which our child's teacher made a point to tell us are "on display" in the classroom by requirement but which our students will never open and the teacher will not be using?  [/quote]

They are supposed to be using it. If they are not I would contact APS’ ELA department and ask.[/quote]

I'd rather go with the teacher this time around, based on previous student and parent comments on the rigor and quality, how good a teacher they are, and how much has been learned from them.  Not using the workbook does not mean the teacher is not covering the curriculum; and after many years of teaching the class, I think this teacher's got it.

Contrasting that with another child's English teacher in a different high school grade level who will use parts of it, but by "ripping out" selected sections and presenting them as handouts because (paraphrasing from BTSN presentation) if the kids had to just follow the textbook through, they would "lose" the students' attention, interest, engagement, and they would hate English.[/quote]

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