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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not like the previous curriculum was great either. In 8th grade at Deal last year they spent the year “reading” the  four novels or plays out loud, with little substantive discussion or writing. They didn’t actually even read To Kill a Mockingbird — they listened to audio summaries of each chapter. And then they watched the movie Just Mercy, which my kid says was the most compelling thing they did all year. It inspired her to read the book Just Mercy on her own. My current 7th grader at Deal says CommonLit is extremely boring and repetitive. It’s basically like CAPE prep all year long. The teacher seems to hate it too. [/quote]

It sounds like nothing is going to change from central office. Depressingly I just think this is what ELA education in dcps is going to be now and you can bet it’s going to be expanded district wide and to high schools. For those students that go onto AP English and lit classes (which I assume you have to read books for, but who knows anymore), how will they possibly be prepared for those having had this curriculum in MS and 9th grade?[/quote]

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