Papers delivered at a four-day study session on the English Language Arts Curriculum, K-12, in Connecticut schools are presented in this bulletin. The focus of the study was: (1) the current status of English and reading programs and recommendations for their improvement, and (2) suggestions for the improvement of a preliminary draft of a new…

PRESENTED HERE WAS A STUDY GUIDE FOR STUDENT USE IN A SEVENTH-GRADE LITERATURE CURRICULUM. BACKGROUND INFORMATION, QUESTIONS, AND ACTIVITIES WERE INCLUDED FOR UNITS ON ORIENTATION TO LITERATURE, TRADITIONAL BALLADS, AND LITERARY BALLADS. A BOOK OF BALLADS REFERENCE WAS INCLUDED ALSO. AN ACCOMPANYING GUIDE WAS PREPARED FOR TEACHER USE (ED 010 136).…

Describes a typical graduate program in English, suggests ways such programs might usefully evolve in the future, and points to aspects of such programs that should be left as they are. (GW)

Discusses "new rhetoric" within the context of the modern English department. Presents a brief history of the development of the traditional English curriculum through the 18th and 19th century. (JD)

Addresses two questions: (1) What are the functions of literature? and (2) How do children respond to literature? (HOD)

Describes an English course for seniors and the creative influence exerted by the prison environment upon its inmates. (RK)

A personalized essay that pleads for ethical curriculum planning on the grounds that the mass media should communicate, not just stimulate. (RB)

Discusses pedagogical differences among educators as to what an English curriculum should be and suggests that educators don't really know. (Author)

Suggests that a problem with the use of materials and methods devised for use with John Dixon's growth English'' is the temptation, under the stress of large classes and overcrowded timetables, to use it for class lessons along traditional lines. (Author)

The student lives in a contradictory world where he soon learns to do what the teacher expects of him rather than what he expects of himself. (AN)

A paper presented at annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 27, 1970). (Editor)

This is a report on a month-long conference held during the summer of 1966 at Dartmouth College to analyze the teaching of the English.