It is imperative that in conversations about literacy instruction teachers incorporate curriculum dedicated to youth empowerment, especially for emergent bilingual and LGBTQ youth, as recognizing and honoring students' linguistic and epistemic privileges entails taking their claims about the world seriously. In this article, the author discusses…

The number of students who participate in this author's journalism program is steadily dropping. As the adviser of the Rockville High School "Rampage," he is constantly trying to "reward" his seniors for their hard work in producing a newspaper that has won national awards from scholastic newspaper organizations. He encourages his students to…

Describes an elective English course which involves readings and writing in new journalism style. (DD)

Describes a high school senior elective course on children's literature. (DD)

Describes two elective courses for juniors and seniors. (DD)

Thirty-nine short courses in English are described by their originators. (JH)

Discusses a 10-week elective course designed to give students some basis for . . . positive action and creative decision" by carefully studying several literary characters. (Author/SW)

Describes a one-semester elective English course for seniors. (DD)

Describes a ten-week writing elective for seniors. (DD)

The curriculum gets lost when schools adopt electives in English, a technique the author regards as merely reshuffling quantities"; change should be perceived in the terms of medium, not content." (Author/SP)

Offers a defense of teaching science fiction as an elective in the high-school English curriculum. (RL)