Enrichment occurs when students move through traditional curriculum at rates faster than in a general education class. While different from traditional Accelerated classes (i.e. grade-skipping, early entrance, dual-credit courses such as Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs and subject-based acceleration (e.g., when a fifth-grade student takes a middle school math course), Enrichment does well to prepare students for these challenging courses. Gifted and talented students and other high ability students perform at higher levels on achievement tests and are less likely to become bored and disinterested in school than similarly able students who are not in an Enrichment. Students who are placed into an Enriched English Language Arts class should be placed in the gifted classroom with other high performing or gifted students.  

At Hoover, students enrolled in Enriched ELA are placed in a combined Gifted-Enriched classroom.

CURRICULUM FOR GIFTED-ENRICHMENT ELA

6th Grade

Enriched ELA 6 will cover all 6th grade CCSS and approximately half of the 7th grade CCSS. Gifted accommodations will be provided to students who are identified as Gifted and have an accompanying IEP.

7th Grade

Enriched ELA 7 will cover all 7th grade CCSS and approximately half of the 8th grade CCSS. Gifted accommodations will be provided to students who are identified as Gifted and have an accompanying IEP.

8th Grade (Pre-Honors/Advanced Placement)

Enriched ELA 8 will cover all 8th grade CCSS and will prepare students for taking Honors 9 and Honors 10 ELA in high school and Advanced Placement English Language (11th Grade) and Advanced Placement English Literature (12th Grade).