[quote=HowlerKarma]Literary Analysis is the KEY to improving critical thinking.


Or, based on that statement, detrimental to critical thinking, leading to false hypotheses.

Wasn't this about the child's learning in the classroom or not? If the teacher is relaying the info, then the child is not paying attention, something that happens with HG. If the teacher is not relaying the info, then most kids should be having trouble. Talk to other parents.

DD has a bad grade 4 teacher. The other grade 4 teacher is good. Happens. I talked to other parents, they feel similarly, I respond by taking DD more by the hand when she does a project. Showing her how to do her reference page. I ask her about the outline, if there is an outline for the project. I never had to do that in the last few years. It was done at school.