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Board members ask for follow‑up after English 9 curriculum narrows novel list; district schedules deeper review
Summary
Board members pressed administrators on recent changes to the Grade 9 English curriculum, including a decision to guarantee one full novel (or drama) for all students and to list other titles as secondary resources; the board requested a follow‑up discussion at the next meeting to review high‑school novel choices across grades.
Members of the Pine‑Richland Academic Achievement Committee said on June 9 that they want more discussion before the board finalizes changes to the Grade 9 English curriculum after administrators described a narrower set of guaranteed texts.
Administrators said English teachers collaborated this spring to identify which whole texts are most tightly aligned to Grade 9 learning goals. Under the proposed academic Grade 9 plan, staff said, "there's an assured experience" that every student in the academic course will read a specific whole text in Unit 1, and all students will read Romeo and Juliet in Unit 3.
"So now that tells me that regardless of which teacher my…
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