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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Each grade in high school has the same English teacher so that is the entire class load, you can see exactly how many students the teacher has based on how many kids are in that grade and all kids in a grade are getting the exact same instruction unless some are doing the AP track (which is usually offered the same time as the regular class, with extra assignments and some in-class breakouts). Some English teachers also teach an elective like film or Shakespeare.

H-B focuses a lot on research and writing. They do year-long projects where they break down how to write a long paper, they spend a whole year doing an English research paper in 9th and a whole year doing a paper on a historic person in 10th. They also spend a lot of time on different kinds of writing--persuasive, descriptive, argumentative, etc. Science classes also require papers.

But what I really appreciated was the very structured approach to writing in English classes, to help them develop the skills to develop college-length research papers: they had to develop a topic, come up with research questions, then an outline, then an introduction, then the body, write the paper, and do a presentation--all over two semesters with a very specific rubric and feedback at each step. 
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It shouldn't take half a year or more to learn how to write a research paper, especially if you're in high school. It's been our experience so far in English and history classes at H-B that class time is wasted on this learning process when most of the research and writing could be done at home and reviewed with the teacher during class. In most cases, papers are submitted to an online black hole never to be seen or heard from again. Unfortunately my kids have learned from APS that there's no reason to review any work submitted online since the teachers never correct them and they'd just be looking at exactly what they submitted originally.[/quote]

Everyone else is complaining that there is no writing instruction or support in APS and you are complaining that there is too much?

And do you look at Canvas or the class pages? Because the teachers definitely do give feedback on assignments, either on the papers or on the grading page.

I really think you are just a troll, the things you post don't match our experience at all and H-B is so small our kids have to have the same teachers for all their core classes. [/quote]

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