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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid just started at a Big3 for 9th  and the summer reading was the Autobiography of Malcolm X.[/quote]

A classic.[/quote]

Exactly. But PPs insist that only white authors can write classics.

Currently at Deal, 
6th graders are reading Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
7th graders are reading Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
8th graders are reading Raisin in the Sun
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They're not reading entire books, just excerpts.[/quote]

Huh?! That's odd. My 6th grader read "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry", "Beowulf", "Tuck Everlasting" and a novel in verse about a Hmong girl (forget the title) in its entirety last year at Hardy. The assignments did cover the entire set of books. Was it not so at Deal? But I do agree that reading is pretty minimal at DCPS.[/quote]

Nope - mine read "part" of Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry - and I think parts of Beowulf - but not the complete set of 4 books - that we did purchase - was an "on the fly" change...and they were not assigned full books[/quote]

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