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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Foreshadowing and all the other concepts you mention are taught in MCPS middle school[/b]. The usual complaint about 9th and 10th grade Honors English is that it's way too easy. Not that it's too hard!

Perhaps your kid has a little ADHD/autistic tendencies going on, which is fine. One of my kids has that profile, and he needed a writing tutor in middle school, who taught him to close-read, pay attention to non-explicit hints in the text, understand actions in context, and re-explained literary concepts. By the time he arrived in high school, he didn't need the writing tutor anymore. He sailed through Honors English and AP Language, but then hit a wall in AP Literature, because he really needed a higher order of socio-emotional understanding that he just wasn't ready for. Again, typical for autistic kids. He's great at technical writing, though, and does a lot of it in college!

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To be fair, MCPS middle school instruction is pretty crappy. So it's possible these concepts for glossed over or skipped....[/quote]

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