Reply to What's the best way to advocate for improved English curriculum in MS and HS?

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "What's the best way to advocate for improved English curriculum in MS and HS?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree English is the weak point.

I think there’s one easy fix which is to assign more books and better book.  Basically everything my kids read was written after 1950 and most of t was written after 2000.  They don’t read Shakespeare, dickens, Britney, Steinbeck, Hawthorne, Wharton, Austen etc.

The second one, which is probably impossible to solve, is more feedback on their writing.  They just aren’t staffed for that.  They would need to give all the English teachers at least one or two more additional planning periods to give them time to really read and edit and provide substantive feedback on writing.  Or give them TAs or something.  (Although it’s not even clear to me that the new graduates are capable of that.) [/quote]

Both of my kids have read Shakespeare and Steinbeck.[/quote]

My kids have read Shakespeare in MS and HS.  Didn’t enjoy any of the ones chosen.  Read some “classics” and didn’t enjoy most. [/quote]
Not into Shakespeare either. But I went to a public school that emphasized classics and they were great.

I don’t understand MCPS’s approach to English. At my child’s ES, I rarely see work returned home. How are they supposed to learn if they don’t know where they made grammar and spelling errors? I don’t think some teachers even read the essays. [/quote]

+1 - rarely get returned work in 5th grade reading/writing. Got more returned work with grammar/spelling/content commentary in 3rd grade.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics