Author presents a high school English curriculum resulting from a definition of English as the study of language...from perception through thinking and feeling; 20 courses are described. (Author/SP)

Student-developed literature and language games are described. (SP)

News notes on current developments in English Teaching and curriculum, and items of interest relating to English teaching. (JB)

A high school teacher outlines how she successfully threw open the curriculum planning to the students in her English class. (Author/SP)

Explores possible reasons why women enter the teaching profession, particularly the teaching of English, and confronts common stereotypes of female English teachers. (JL)

Reveals some of what an English teacher from England learned from teaching English in the United States. (JL)

Raises three issues of competency testing: how competency is to be defined, tested, and paid for. (JL)

Comments on the anachronism of studying classical literature in English classes. Laments the uncertain future of classical literature in the English curriculum. (RL)

Outlines reasons for having programs for the gifted. Describes the gifted instructional program at the author's high school. (JT)

Urges the establishment of a commission to study the nation's middle schools and recommend a sound English curriculum. (DD)

Gives advice for the beginning teacher by narrating the experiences of one teacher's childhood and explaining how these experiences shaped the teacher's professional outlook. Concentrates on one of the teacher's memories of his childhood experiences with his grandmother. (HB)

Defines the concept of "audience" as a theoretical concept for writing instructors and readers. Discusses its relationship to the teaching of English. (HB)

Describes how one English teacher, in conjunction with an art teacher, linked writing poetry with student art. Recounts the pairing of student artists with student poets. Explains the benefits of such a learning arrangement, in which an artist tries to capture graphically the meaning of a poem. (HB)

Describes the reasons that companies frequently misspell words that are part of product names. Provides many examples of such misspellings, along with an analysis of why the words were misspelled. (HB)

Details the various question about the place of literature in the modern high school English curriculum. Questions the ability of educators to formulate a literature pedagogy without reaching a consensus about the place of literature in the curriculum. (HB)