Includes quotations by ninth grade students in reaction to reading the book. (RD)

A psychological interpretation of the character development of David, in Ester Wier's The Loner," and a suggestion that study of this novel might enhance an adolescent's self-image. (RD)

Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 30, 1968).

The difficulties and advantages of integrating feminist literary criticism into the college English curriculum are examined. It is argued that attention to the place of womem in literature would help to illuminate the human experience, a primary objective of literary criticism. (MSE)

Offers examples of ways that college and university departments of English can broaden students' capabilities as readers and critics. (AEA)

Points out the problems and potential of teaching the Bible as literature. (JL)

Suggests that feminism is at the heart of a profound revolution in both the intellectual as well as the political sphere and that feminist criticism reveals the literary classics as newly vital. (AEA)

Offers a list of questions for teachers to ask their literature classes, including questions on the author, the style, the theme, the setting, and the plot. Notes how sequencing these questions can prepare students for other activities in literature appreciation. (RL)

Emphasizes attention to the sound of a poem in both teaching and writing poetry. Provides selected poems written by students and teachers. (JT)

Addresses the problems in discussing nineteenth-century British literature in the classroom and advocates encouraging students to take and support various interpretations of text. (DF)

Describes the responses of five high school students to a short story. Summarizes other research on student response groups. Proposes ways to use the response process in classroom literature programs. (RL)

Offers an approach to teaching the essence of John Knowles'"A Separate Peace" by juxtaposing the novel's events and statements with quotations from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. (RL)

Offers an essay on the "obscenities" of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," to be used as a class exercise in critical reading, diction, and tone. (RL)