Suggests an activity that helps students see the relationship of suffixes to particular parts of speech. (TJ)

Outlines a course designed to help students become more effective critics by teaching them a variety of ways to read and analyze literature. (RB)

Offers exercises designed to teach college freshmen the characteristics of the participial modifier. The exercises are based on a form of programed teaching that involves a high degree of student involvement, repeatedly presenting students with a stimulus, and asking for a quick, patterned response. (FL)

Provides a guide for teaching Edwin Morgan's poem, "O Pioneers!" (TJ)

Suggests teaching Bernard Malamud's novel, "The Natural," because it is a work of a powerful imagination; can be used to stimulate searches into history, literature, and myth; and can be a catalyst for student writing. Describes several approaches to studying the book. (TJ)

Suggests the use of parody to deepen students' understanding of how and why poems work. (TJ)

Relates a two-part writing assignment for the study of poetry, in which students are assigned to write a critique in response to a particular question and are then asked to give a personal response. (TJ)

Suggests encouraging students to use three or four steps to disintegrate their original objective descriptions of an event in a novel as a way to experiment with writing and to develop some critical observations about the author's fictional world. (TJ)

Suggests a short library assignment researching journal articles pertaining to a student's major or vocational interest as a way to encourage exploration of the library, prepare students for writing more lengthy papers, and introduce students to a variety of material related to specific subjects. (TJ)

Suggests the use of a chart to help students learn to use apostrophes correctly. (TJ)

Presents an exercise intended to help students understand that reading literature is a worthwhile endeavor. (RB)

Presents a teaching guide for the novel "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant," including questions for discussion and writing about individual characters and the novel as a whole. (HTH)

Discusses ways to organize a course in classical mythology. Presents classroom exercises including matching and word games, as well as extension exercises. Concludes with a list of sources on mythology. (HTH)

Presents exercises and activities on the novel, "The Red Badge of Courage," that are designed to supplement the basic comprehension exercises in a literature class. (FL)