One of two books prepared for high school level correspondence students in Alaska, this collection of lesson plans stresses problem areas in English grammar and the comprehension of literature. Topics covered in the plans are (1) subjective, objective, relative, possessive, and indefinite pronouns; (2) possessives; (3) sentence fragments and…

Describes a pilot program in Alaska (in six remote rural schools from highly diversified regions) that attempted to train high school teachers to teach journalism as they established classes to produce school newspapers as a unit in an English class. (SR)

A compositionist teaching high school on an Athabascan Indian Reservation near Anchorage, Alaska, encountered considerable resistance from his students when attempting to see them through a college-prep program. Their initial hostility toward him masked their deep need for an adult role model who was not abusive, neglectful, or alcoholic. It was a…

One of two books prepared for high school level correspondence students in Alaska, this collection of lesson plans stresses problem areas in English grammar. Topics covered in the plans are (1) verbs and their subjects; (2) capitalization; (3) end punctuation; (4) adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases; (5) comparative and superlative…