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Reply to "Why can't we accelerate English the way we (try to) accelerate math?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Accelerate English to what/where exactly? At a certain point it's not about acceleration of English but choosing a focus or topic of study. That's why there are so many English electives. The problem is not accelerating English further, its creating full year/semester electives that go towards graduation requirement.[/quote] I'd say 'accelerate' English to the point of requiring actual research (with proper method, documentation, and citation), academic writing, multidraft editing, and formal presentation skills (not just reading disconnected commentary from the notes fields in Google Slides). Kids who find it comparatively easy to read a novel and dash off a character study or a comparison/contrast paper should be introduced to higher-level academic discourse sooner. Even AP doesn't do this.[/quote]
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