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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a sixth grader at deal. We are seven months into
School and they've read exactly two
Books... And if your kids are readers they had already read those two books. I hear about constant behavioral disruptions in class where the teachers are given permission to call students parents on speaker phone to embarrass the unruly kids. Math is math... Seven seems not that far from six but with less problem children. Ugh... I'm depressed writing this. I know the smart kids get into big threes at the end of it all but it's not an inspiring curriculum ...[/quote]

[b]Same thing at Wilson with the books: 7 months in, 3 books read in English class (honors level)[/b]. The academic level is nothing close to schools where we used to live (NYC suburb). I know that some kids come out of Deal and Wilson and go on to great success, but I am starting to think that it's despite Deal and Wilson, not because of them.[/quote]

My oldest is at a big 3 and she has only read three books in English so far this year. [b]It takes time to read, analyze, write and review. [/b][/quote]

+1.  Maybe it would help if you could name the books the class has been reading.  Is it The Odyssey or is it something much easier?[/quote]

My Deal 6th grader read two versions of The Odyssey in the last unit (teacher recommendation; the standard version and one graphic novel version). Beowulf and The Jabberwocky were some of the official class texts for that unit. (Theme was Monsters)  One of the writing assignments was to write an original derivative fiction from the POV of one of the monsters in Beowulf.  They were also encouraged to take it a step further and some students recorded films of their stories, created video games based on their stories, etc. They had also done a Beowulf unit in 4th grade, but it was very different.  I don't think this is uninspiring.[/quote]

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