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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]

My son is at a W and said the median MAP-R score in his English class was 86th percentile. So I'm sure they could do more than 1 novel per MP, the first being a graphic novel and the second a novel under 100 pages...[/quote]

What’s wrong with graphic novels?[/quote]

Nothing is wrong with graphic novels; however, media in the form of comic books has always been looked down upon and considered "trash" by many.

I teach MARCH Book 3 in English 9. This morning, I had a student walk up to me and say "My grandmother is so happy that we're reading this book. Her father attended a lot of the demonstrations that we're reading about, and she was afraid that with everything that's going on, we wouldn't get to read anymore books like this."

Go have your kid read A Tale of Two Cities and tell me how that hits for them in comparison. [/quote]

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