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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, I don't think this is bearing out your statements.

Class VI

2014: ENGLISH: poetry; stories from Genesis (King James Version); Greek and Roman
myths; Homer’s Odyssey; performance of a Greek or medieval mystery play; analytic
paragraphs; creative writing. Some reading parallels studies in ancient history.

2023: ENGLISH: Trickster: Native American Tales; folktales from around the world;
selections from Monkey King and The Arabian Nights; The Odyssey; analytical and
creative exercises; a class play.

Same basic theme, they replaced Bible stories with stories from around the world - which maybe will offend Classics buffs - but they still read The Odyssey.

Class VII

2014: ENGLISH: poetry; grammar; Great Expectations; Julius Caesar; formal introduc-
tion to poetic terms; critical and creative writing.

2023: ENGLISH: poetry, including by William Blake, Li-Young Lee, Quandra
Prettyman and Elizabeth Bishop; grammar; Great Expectations; A Raisin in the
Sun; formal introduction to poetic terms; critical and creative writing.

Still same theme, still reading Great Expectations, they replaced Julius Caesar with Raisin in the Sun which I guess is the crux of your whole beef with them but this hardly seems like a watering down in the context of the whole course.

Class VIII

2014: ENGLISH: short stories; grammar; Jane Eyre; poetry; Twelfth Night; formal intro-
duction to narrative structure; critical and creative writing.

2023: ENGLISH: short stories by authors including Julia Alvarez, Toni Cade
Bambara, James Baldwin, James Joyce and Edgar Allen Poe; grammar; Maud
Martha; poetry; Twelfth Night; formal introduction to narrative structure;
critical and creative writing.

Again very similar, still reading Jane Eyre and Twelfth Night.

Class IX

2014: ENGLISH: Their Eyes Were Watching God; sonnets; Macbeth; Pride and Prejudice;
personal essays.

2023: ENGLISH: personal essays by writers such as Colson Whitehead, Amy Tan,
Richard Rodriguez, Elyssa Whasuta, Diana Abu-Jaber and Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie; grammar; sonnets by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth,
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Claude McKay and Rhina Espaillat; Macbeth; Pride and
Prejudice; Their Eyes Were Watching God; practice in close reading and analytical
writing; creative assignments.

Again seems similar, they just fleshed out the description with more works.

The only grade in 6-9 with a significant change is 6 and I think it's probably for the better - frankly, Journey To The West is a whole mind-expanding than the frickin' Book of Genesis.[/quote]

Thanks for doing the work here.  This was very helpful to me.[/quote]

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