Haiku is a Japanese poem that deals with nature and contains seventeen syllables divided among three lines in the pattern of 5-7-5. Senryu is also a disciplined Japanese poem which deals directly with people and ideas. In Haiku, the reader utilizes imagination; in senryu, the interpretation has been supplied. Here are some creative suggestions for…

Article described a method by which three teacher interns, preparing to be English teachers, combined their backgrounds and interests in philosophy, history, and communications to formulate a twelfth grade elective course. (Author/RK)

Article developed from a paper presented at the NCTE convention in Milwaukee.

Discussed the study of literature as a means of understanding the techniques of literature as well as helping students to understand themselves. (Author/RK)

Describes a 12 week elective English program in Hickory Township, Sharon, Pennsylvania, where the media as art form is taught. (MB)

Asserting that the Supreme Court's 1963 Schempp decision does not prohibit biblical instruction in the public schools, but only mandates that it be objective, the author suggests several techniques for incorporating Biblical allusions and stories into literature instruction. (SJL)

If English as a subject in America's high schools is to survive through the next decade, new developments must be explored and utilized by teachers of this subject. (CK)

Proposes that English teaching in the year 2000 ought to include: acceptance of the notion of students' unique responses to literature; storytelling; the reintroduction and extensive use of field trips; the classroom as a community of readers and writers; less grammar study; and more emphasis on thinking skills. (SR)

Teachers in the English department at the Harley School, Rochester, New York, developed a program in theater as a continuing and inherent part of the English curriculum. (Author/RK)

Author offers a philosophical basis for grouping students according to the purposes of English courses, using different approaches to best advantage. (Editor)

Describes the current offerings in the genre of multicultural fiction for adolescents. Justifies the use of multicultural novels in the classroom. Provides examples of novels that include characters representative of a multicultural society. (HB)

During the 1971-72 school year, three student English teachers cooperating with their senior teachers in the high schools helped students investigate their interests and aptitudes to satisfy the senior English research theme requirement. (Author)

Describes students' work during a 12-week course on fantasy offered to talented and gifted high school students. Illustrates how the students learned about metaphor and inference. (SRT)