With Common Core there is no time for novels. We now read excerpts of informational texts with a few short stories and literary text excerpts sprinkled in. For example, our text book has The Tempest’s first two acts only. We are supposed to do two of five acts and move on. Additionally, the content selection is extremely liberal. We read the Declaration, the Bill of Rights, and Federalist 51. The questions the text book present revolve around how the docs are “dated.” CC is about expose move on, expose move on, expose move on. Then CC has high stakes testing that requires higher level thinking skills. Neat little package Pearson, PARCC, AIR, and the Congress members’ campaigns they support have wrapped up for all the future voters, huh?
How sad. But how devious of the Libs to have CC used and limiting the ability to think, analyze and relate information as a whole. The analogy would be like news sound bites as opposed to in depth reporting. Or maybe I have your answer incorrect.