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If your student has taken a TPS Eng 4/5 class, could you tell me if the writing s/he did for the course was related to the literature read?  Or was the writing/"composition" pretty much a completely separate, unrelated strand?

My dd is taking Eng 4/5: Brit Lit. I love the works she's reading and the online discussion part of the class, but I am so disappointed in the writing part of it! Almost every single one of the essays my dd has written for the class has been completely unrelated to the literature they're reading! How can an upper level Eng class that reads such great works NOT use those works as the basis for the writing the students do?!?! 

For example, right now, my dd has a compare/contrast essay to write. Sounds good! Maybe compare/contrast a couple of characters from one of the books they're reading? Maybe compare/contrast how a couple different books deal with a given theme? Maybe... well, there are a thousand different, wonderful possibilities when you're reading such good books! But, no!  She's  writing a compare/contrast essay on some current issue in the world!  That's fine. No problem with that topic... in some other class where it's more relevant to the subject matter in the class!  But why not write it about the books she's already reading and thinking about. There is no better way to process and synthesize one's thoughts than to write about what one is thinking. NOT writing about these books is a huge lost opportunity! 

So I was wondering.... is this typical of all TPS Eng 4/5 classes?  Or is it just this one class or this one instructor?  Of all the TPS Eng classes my kids have taken, this is the first & only one I've been disappointed with. I feel like I should go back and put a caveat on all the posts I've made raving about TPS Eng!

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