This is a problem but one that I am not sure schools under our current can easily fix nor one that we can easily incentivize.
Broad-Part9448 on
Uhh if the school doesn’t assign a whole book by high school it’s either a bad school or the student wasn’t in the honors class
Yogg_for_your_sprog on
>Dames’s classes had no problem engaging in sophisticated discussions of Pride and Prejudice one week and Crime and Punishment the next. Now his students tell him up front that the reading load feels impossible. It’s not just the frenetic pace; they struggle to attend to small details while keeping track of the overall plot.
This reading load does seem a bit too high to be honest. In AP Lit the expectation for Crime and Punishment was around 3~4 weeks if I recall correctly.
If you’re being expected to do a deep read where you remember all the little details and not even a skim that’s going to take probably 20 hours plus, not to mention there’s usually assignments beyond just reading.
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This is a problem but one that I am not sure schools under our current can easily fix nor one that we can easily incentivize.
Uhh if the school doesn’t assign a whole book by high school it’s either a bad school or the student wasn’t in the honors class
>Dames’s classes had no problem engaging in sophisticated discussions of Pride and Prejudice one week and Crime and Punishment the next. Now his students tell him up front that the reading load feels impossible. It’s not just the frenetic pace; they struggle to attend to small details while keeping track of the overall plot.
This reading load does seem a bit too high to be honest. In AP Lit the expectation for Crime and Punishment was around 3~4 weeks if I recall correctly.
If you’re being expected to do a deep read where you remember all the little details and not even a skim that’s going to take probably 20 hours plus, not to mention there’s usually assignments beyond just reading.
You mean legacy admissions?