Developed for a high school quinmester unit on point of view in literature, this guide is designed to help students develop an understanding of point of view and to increase their sensitivity to different points of view in their own writing as well as in the writing of others. Performance objectives are listed which include: having students…

Describes a study which revealed that teachers scoring high on a test of complexity contributed more positively than did low-complexity teachers to student written ability to interpret literature. (DD)

Uses students' responses to poetry as a tool for developing writing skills and literature appreciation. Matches literature materials to students' levels of experience. (RL)

Presents an introduction to social construction and offers a bibliographical guide to such texts. Recommends general and community specific accounts, defines social constructionist thought in literary criticism and literary history, mentions composition studies, and comments on the impact of social construction in education. (JK)

Demonstrates how composition textbook advertisements suggest, project, and perhaps even create an audience. Proposes four different audience-related elements of the ad-object: context, genre, borrowings, and reflexivity. (MS)

Presents some personal experimental work relating to world metaphors together with that of others working in the areas of logic, psychology, and philosophy. (NKA)

Introduces four instances of the strong possibilities feminist literary criticism presents for the classroom: roles of heroines and heroes in the novel, the casting of women in Shakespeare, the scope of imagery and authorial voice in poetry, and in the pursuit of the voice in the students' own writing. (EL)

Suggests that the best method of understanding a poem is to experiment with reading it aloud rather than simply discussing the poem. (DF)

Thoroughly discusses teaching strategies for a literature packet entitled "Personality Sketch." (DF)

Explains how the pairing of the two works allowed the teacher to show the culmination of nineteenth-century short story development with James and a current trend with Oates. (FL)

Effective drama teaching improves the following student skills: speaking and listening, reading and writing through developing thinking, communication skills, and critical analysis. Drama is part of young people's core curriculum entitlement in the United Kingdom. It is included in the English Curriculum Orders and in the Key Stage 3 Framework for…

Author notes that most students read for plot alone. Citing the role of oral composition in the development of literature, he suggests teaching classes to compose orally so as to develop a feel for imagery and literary style and sense of what to look for beyond a good story. (PD)

Describes how a bibliographic methods course, retitled The English Literary Profession," is being taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (SW)