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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t had this experience with my kid’s MS English class.  [b]The books I’ve seen as his assigned reading are classics (Call of the Wild, Outsiders, the Giver) or short stories by famous authors (Roald Dahl) and he has a ton of homework where he does a lot of writing.  [/b]I mean, he’s not reading Tolstoy and yeah a chapter every other night can be slow for advances readers but seems like normal middle school English to me-definitely no Hunger Games assigned.

My kid is in the most advanced global humanities and  math classes at his MS, but for him, it’s his English class that’s the hardest for him. I was told he has a teacher who is a hard grader and very passionate about making sure kids write properly.

I suspect there’s quite a bit of heterogeneity in how English is taught at MCPS.  I’m sure you’ll be able to supplement well to complement the deficiencies in your kid’s class.  [/quote]

What MS does your child attend?  This has not been our experience at our MCPS MS.  [/quote]

We’re at one of the BCC feeder MS.  If you look at the Unit 2 list below, that’s pretty much my kid’s experience to date.   I don’t see Hunger Games or Lightning Thief type pop fiction books on their curriculum lists so not sure where your kids are going to school such that they are having this experience.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/siteassets/district/curriculum/english/middle/grade7/7.2-guide-for-website.pdf
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