Explains several techniques for improving students' vocabulary through increasing their interest in and sensitivity to language. (JL)

Presents an innovative approach to teaching vocabulary to high school students. (FL)

Urges English teachers to combine the experiential and intellectual dimensions of the student encounter with prose or poetry, yet recognizes this effort as a demanding and exhausting one. (AEA)

Relates one teacher's experiences while teaching literature and composition to prison inmates. (HOD)

Reports on the development and content of an English course that used death as a theme in literature. (RL)

Explains the news values that journalists use. Shows English teachers and administrators how they can apply this knowledge of news media to improve public relations between the school and the community. (RL)

Offers seven ways of circumventing or defusing issues of censorship in the English classroom. (RL)

Offers advice and techniques for poetry writing in high school English classes. (RL)

Argues that using parallels between popular culture and the classics in literature brings greater understanding and appreciation of literature to students. (RL)

Discusses the use of video in teaching poetry composition, where the video equipment becomes a feedback tool to help students write and present better poems. (CMV)

The theory and practice of analyzing jokes, with implications for class discussions. (RL)

Presents a series of questions designed to help students recognize and appreciate the character dimension in modern fiction. (FL)

An overview of Black dialects, with suggestions for teaching students who speak in Black dialects. (RL)

Suggests creative ways to interest students in the "magic" of words through word game activities. (DF)

Describes two projects to involve vocational-technical students in English instruction. Suggests ways to use graduation and yearbooks in end-of-the-year English activities. (JT)