OT I Didn't Know Where Else To Put This. What Are Honors Classes Like In English For 8th Grade?

[gofriars610]

We didn't have "honors" per se, but we did have a gifted and talented program that pulled kids from language arts/math classes between fourth and eighth grade and stuck them in a double-wide trailer-turned-classroom for a couple periods a day. I can't remember what we read in 8th grade, but I remember being angry that I essentially had to re-do it in 9th grade honors English.

 

[ErinS]

Oh, I see. Well better luck next time.

better luck at what exactly?


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[cheermom02]

Even the encyclopedia is online. It makes me feel old! I remember thinking it was a huge deal when my parents bought a set of encyclopedias for our home.

Britannica.com

I still remember the day we got our encyclopedia britannica set! I loved to look at the "D" and read all about dogs and dinosaurs! I would get in trouble if I didn't put them back in order.


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[ErinS]

I still remember the day we got our encyclopedia britannica set! I loved to look at the "D" and read all about dogs and dinosaurs! I would get in trouble if I didn't put them back in order.


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I remember when a door to door salesman came and sold my mom World Book. Then a few years later we got Encarta95

At my last library I weeded world book from the reference collection and I'm fairly certain my new library doesn't have encyclopedias at all


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[Pebbles49]

I have to admit, I love the creative and challenging approach my daughter's 6 grade Language arts class took. They started with the theme of survival and read 4 books about young people their age that survive catastrophic situations... I still remember the 4 books they read- Hatchet, Esperanza Rising, Giver and Diary of a Slave Girl (?). In reading these books, the teacher had the students analyze the historical happenings- (Canadian wilderness, Mexico, Holocaust and Colonial USA)...I still remember the projects my daughter had that centered around the books and the deep discussions and writings the students had to devise ways to survive. My daughter actually put together a survival kit. Recreated the underground railroad and show how the slaves march through USA to Canada... I really enjoyed helping my daughter with her homework assignments during this time...Seventh grade Honors ELA is a blurred, but it looks like 8th Honors class might be interesting...

 

[njallday]

I remember when a door to door salesman came and sold my mom World Book. Then a few years later we got Encarta95

At my last library I weeded world book from the reference collection and I'm fairly certain my new library doesn't have encyclopedias at all


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ugh that's so sad. we got a full color set of encyclopedias as a family gift one year for christmas. I know, we're very exciting. (seriously, I was excited) Then we transitioned to the Encarta CD-ROM. And then I would play Where in the World is Carmen San Diego and open Encarta95 to look up the places. nerd child.

 

[ErinS]

ugh that's so sad. we got a full color set of encyclopedias as a family gift one year for christmas. I know, we're very exciting. (seriously, I was excited) Then we transitioned to the Encarta CD-ROM. And then I would play Where in the World is Carmen San Diego and open Encarta95 to look up the places. nerd child.

Yeah but they were dusty, didn't get used and took up a lot of space. I actually weeded 75% of our in house, non circulating reference collection


I used to do that with Carmen San Diego as well. I also low key found that game slightly scary. I wouldn't play at night


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[Pebbles49]

My daughter showed,me one of the books her 8th grade Honors ELA will be picking apart - Siddharta and I think, there theme is probably, Life's Achievements... She already started reading a few chapters and asking me gazillion questions concerning this text.

 

[Kaylee_Kitty_Kat_75_]

My daughter showed,me one of the books her 8th grade Honors ELA will be picking apart - Siddharta and I think, there theme is probably, Life's Achievements... She already started reading a few chapters and asking me gazillion questions concerning this text.

Haha. Usually I prefer reading alone. I never really ask questions about it, I observe myself.
I can't tell you how much I dislike group reading. We're not allowed to read ahead. I try to stay, but I always get lost and end up on page 27 when they're on page 10. Long story short, my teachers didn't like that much, lol.

 

[Kaylee_Kitty_Kat_75_]

We didn't have "honors" per se, but we did have a gifted and talented program that pulled kids from language arts/math classes between fourth and eighth grade and stuck them in a double-wide trailer-turned-classroom for a couple periods a day. I can't remember what we read in 8th grade, but I remember being angry that I essentially had to re-do it in 9th grade honors English.

We had a gifted program in the early years of elementary. I remember being mad that I couldn't join for one subject- math. They were going to put me in gifted but I sucked at math.. ugh.

 

[Mndl]

She got her first cell phone at 8 when she had to travel to an out of state cheer competition with a coach and their family, otherwise she would have never had one. Even still it's highly monitored (hence why she had it taken away)

I don't care about the age a child gets a phone. I just feel like what you can, want or are able to do for your child should not be turned into a barrier to learning.

If you want to have " Tech Tuesday" then bring out the classroom set of iPads and call it a day. Don't encourage them to bring gadgets from home


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Oh I agree with you, which is why I was surprised they were saying kids had to bring in a cell phone. What if the family can't afford it, or what if the child only has a (gasp) flip phone? If they have iPads in class that's what they should be using for "Tech Tuesday".

 

[cheer25mom]

We had a gifted program in the early years of elementary. I remember being mad that I couldn't join for one subject- math. They were going to put me in gifted but I sucked at math.. ugh.

This is NOT how placement in gifted education is determined in ANY reputable school system. I was a gifted Ed kid, and CP is a gifted Ed kid. You don't just "get placed" in gifted because you make good grades. It is based on IQ testing combined with specific behavioral analysis to determine whether the child expresses personality and behavioral traits of a gifted child in ANY area. You don't have to be good at everything to be gifted.


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[Payton Lewis]

I just skimmed the thread so I really have no idea what's going on but to answer the OP's question:

My honors lit 8th grades class read: Les Mis, Great Expectations, Romeo & Juliet, Frankenstein, and a book written by a Holocaust survivor and I'm totally blanking on the name. Lot's of group discussions, some interesting series of projects and papers of course. I enjoyed it a lot.

Did you read Night by Elie Weizel (spelling?) great book no matter what.
I'm my 8th grade honors English we read, Tex and other books by S.E. Hinton, she is an Oklahoma author so we had to read the home town books. I don't remember the others.

 

[purplecheer]

CP has them twice a week. Her last class was on how to create a password and how to protect your password. Her 3rd grade class is being assigned their individual email addresses next week...

And then there is me, who uses my ATM pin with an added word as my password for EVERYTHING. I probably should have sat in on that class...

Haha, I use my school password for everything! But funnily enough I remember all my passwords for Club Penguin and all that old stuff!

None. They're supposed to use their phone all day on Tech Tuesday.

My educated guess is that it is to promote bullying, separate the haves from the have nots and highlight the digital divide.

That has to be the case because that is literally the only reason a 10 year old would be hysterical at 6am over not having her iphone... because she was worried what other kids would think

There is no other point, as they have a classroom set of iPads

And to clarify...she attends a predominately wealthy elementary school, where there are certainly more "haves" than "have nots". Shes the only minority in her class, so she is constantly on edge about being accepted and not being "perceived" differently than others. Feel free to read between the lines about that.

I got my first phone when I was 13. Before secondary school kids don't really need a phone, I had an iPod from about 10(?). If they are playing educational games then it is good, but lots of the time they just go on arcade games or social media when it is time to work. We would use games as a reward or when you've finished everything else, not dedicate a day to them. IMO it seems like a waste of time.

 

[purplecheer]

Haha. Usually I prefer reading alone. I never really ask questions about it, I observe myself.
I can't tell you how much I dislike group reading. We're not allowed to read ahead. I try to stay, but I always get lost and end up on page 27 when they're on page 10. Long story short, my teachers didn't like that much, lol.

YES! Haha, I am quite a fast reader but I HATE reading aloud. It always sounds really slow and nervous, as I am the "quiet achiever" type. I also hate oral presentations, because I have a nervous laugh and when I look at my best friend we both start laughing and can't stop. I hate when the teacher picks people to read because you can't understand, they're too fast or too slow. One of my teachers last year read SUPER SUPER SLOW and it was so boring! Another read SO FAST it was hard to understand. Reading alone is the best because people can go at their different paces that they can understand.