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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I co teach with two different 9th grade Honors English teachers and one of them assigned a full novel to read while the other we read excerpts of a graphic novel in class.  The class with the full novel had one student out of 20 earn an A for the MP and 14 of them failed for the quarter.
I get the feeling from my colleagues that we would like to assign more reading and work in general but it is difficult to explain to admin and parents that doing so will result in more than half the class failing the course.[/quote]
Sounds like a lot of kids should not be in Honors English. [/quote]
This.  Co-teacher PP are you in a high poverty school?  Is the full novel teacher a rookie?  Does your school offer non-honors English 9?  [/quote]

This is the co-teacher here.  I am actually the first year teacher and both English teachers i teach with have done this for at least 6 years.  We do not offer non honors english as honors for all seems to be a county wide policy.

The biggest thing i noticed with the full novel class is that the teacher who has established the schedule and pacing for the class has set it up so all reading is done at home with very little to no in class check for understanding.  The students are given a week to read 70 pages and complete an assignment based on those pages.  Rinse repeat for 4 chunks.  I had 2 out of 20 students complete all 4 assignments, 4 students complete 2 of them, and 14 do none of them.  That data isn’t just specific to the reading.  All 4 of my classes of 9th graders complete and turn in roughly about 20% of work that is not done entirely in class.[/quote]

I am 90% certain this is the most demanding English class in MCPS, and the others are nothing like this on the expectations side. The rest meet the gen-ed students where they are (as you described your students).
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