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[quote=Anonymous]Didn't read all the comments, but Honors English in 9th and 10th grade is a JOKE. The level is ABYSMAL. My children just read their own books or did other homework during English. The curriculum advances at an elderly snail's pace, and students are not expected to finish any book addressed in the line-up. Apparently teachers just pick a few segments, study them, and move on to another book.

So far in 10th grade "Honors" English at BCC, my daughter had to read snippets of the Odyssey (she's finishing the rest on her own), the Penelopiad (same story from Penelope's point of view by Margaret Atwood), and they're just starting 1984 (which DD has already read). Most of the questions asked are just surface level, "did you crack open the book or google the answer" sort of knowledge question, like who Telemachus is. In the meantime, DD has had time to read Frankenstein, Dracula and several other novels, just during English class, on Sora, the online MCPS library.

Last year in 9th grade Honors English, they were assigned a graphic novel with hardly any words in it. DD liked the artwork, but the study questions had not been adapted to the graphic novel form, and thus asked for quotations from the text... WHAT TEXT????

Any kid with more than two neurons to rub together is bound to go crazy in such classes.

By the time your kids grow up to attend 9th grade, OP, I hope MCPS has completely overhauled the English curriculum. Parents have been complaining for ages. MCPS is great at STEM. English is its Achilles' heel.

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