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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is what they should be learning in each grade:

English 6:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aZeAlNINm8fHAAVyVNbwJcQ1u14vK-b52qRjF_V1zx0/edit?tab=t.0

English 7: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GbCzfM3glwSUsf1DSYrYvCDhz4JgECgsStTaHLk8J3I/edit?tab=t.0

English 8: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HinKw5UZlW-7_hwMIktrkK045jnmSWd9JyEM191GgOg/edit?tab=t.0

If your child is not doing this curriculum (and is not in the humanities magnet), start with their teacher. If needed, escalate, starting with the content specialist and AP and then moving up.[/quote]

So yes, they have trimmed even the standard 8th grade CKLA by removing Frankenstein.[/quote]

Yes, that was answered above.

They removed 2 units from 6th grade and 1 unit from 7th and 8th grades. [/quote]

My senior's AP Lit class is reading Frankenstein this year. Maybe that's why it's not being taught in 8th?[/quote]

I don't think so -- just a coincidence. There is a lot of flexibility for AP teachers to select their own books; there is not a set curriculum for MCPS. I think it is just that they could only cover 7 units particularly given all the testing in the spring (semester 2 only has 3 units, whereas semester 1 has 4), and they had to select something to leave out. It is still so much more than they covered in Study Sync, where they only did 4/6 units and maybe did 20% of each unit. Ridiculous.[/quote]

It’s a month in our ap English and no books.  [/quote]

AP Lang is more about essays than books. AP Lit should have started a book by now.[/quote]

The sample syllabus lists:

* Summer reading nonfiction book, class worked in the fall

* The Crucible

* Macbeth

* The Great Gatsby

In addition to shorter works.

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-english-language-and-composition-sample-syllabus-1.pdf?course=ap-english-language-and-composition[/quote]

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