Suggests how high school English teachers can monitor, evaluate, direct, and expand the viewing experiences of their students. (DD)

Describes the use of a popular magazine column to stimulate discussion and to motivate writing using specific marriage difficulties as input. This technique affords opportunities for role play, short story writing, and letter writing. (TJ)

Describes a teaching method in which high school sophomores (1) read A. Munro's "Connection," a short story connecting the author to her family origins; (2) interview relatives about their personal history; and (3) compose vignettes based on the notes collected during a three-week period. Provides numerous questions and prompts used to help the…

Describes a two-week English project in which ninth graders read "La Boheme" in translation, studied it as a drama, listened to arias, and finally watched a videotaped performance of the opera. (JG)

Describes a junior high school program offering drama as a course elective. Cites fairy tales, and Western or melodramatic plays as most effective for student involvement; recommends avoiding those about teenagers. Notes educational advantages of this program for handicapped, special education, disruptive, and low reading skills students. (JG)

Introduces a new column that will tell about research being conducted in the classroom. (EL)

Presents a series of exercises for developmental students which were designed to help students develop the cognitive skills related to the understanding of the grammatical structure and relationships of the English language rather than focusing on grammar itself. Describes how the tasks were implemented in class. (DMM)

Argues that the teachers' role in teaching Shakespeare is to raise questions that will alert the class to the implications in the text. (HOD)

Describes a lesson designed to lead students to explore the language structure of the language rather than merely memorize grammatical rules. (FL)

Contains representative selections from issues of "The Elementary English Review," a precursor to "Language Arts," during its first decade of publication. Includes articles, editorials, and ads reflecting contemporary educational concerns still relevant today, such as the reading and writing relationship and teaching children…

Offers advice to sufferers of "textbookitis:" (1) writing textbooks are not necessary for high school classes; (2) the best language textbook is a dictionary--money not spent on a writing textbook could be spent on sets of dictionaries; and (3) literature anthologies can be useful additions to the writing classroom. (RL)

Offers suggestions for use in establishing undergraduate career guidance programs in English departments. (AEA)

Examines the elements of poetry that contribute to making a piece of writing a poem--sound values, rhythm, form, meaning--in an attempt to show teachers the larger view of poetry instruction, one that avoids the errors of the analytical approach and takes into consideration a total experience of poetry. (RL)

Draws on current television programs to show how English teachers can teach the elements of plot, character, and theme. (HTH)

Provides topics and activities by which English teachers can make their students visually literate and capable of critical television viewing. (RL)