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Reply to "Are your middle and high schoolers required to read books?"
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[quote=Anonymous]My kids have been required to read fewer long-form novels than I was in MS/HS, BUT, they are reading many more different kinds of texts including articles, essays and short-form texts. At first I was skeptical because it was unfamiliar to my own education, but I have come around to see the benefit. Last year in my son's AP Lang class, they spent quite a bit of time on Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and he wrote 2 essays discussing themes in the text and tying it to modern examples. I find this to be way more useful in developing critical thinking skills than what I had learned. My son is way more aware of what is going on around him than I was at 17 and how to interpret it. [/quote]
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