Summarizes responses to a questionnaire on popular courses that was sent to English department chairpersons in 1977. (GW)

Reports on a survey that asked 500 students what the word "literature" meant to them. Concludes that the variety of answers indicate that English teachers need to be clearer about what they believe literature is and that only then can they clarify the objectives of a literary education. (JAD)

Reviews selected English and language arts curriculum guides in use in five provinces--British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. The discussion focuses on the literature sections of the curriculum guides. (SRT)

Forty-eight colleges and university English departments were asked to list books incoming students should have read before entering their institutions. From this listing the authors define what secondary students should read and what analytic skills such well-read students should develop. They present a three-point plan for developing a secondary…

Presents a fictitious dialogue between a department chairman and an English teacher reluctant to state course objectives in purely behavioral terms. (TO)

Describes a unit of study on the theme of death used with high school junior and senior literature classes. (TO)

Offers suggestions for seeking out neglected writers from all literary periods and advocates teaching the works of these writers along with the works of accepted great writers. (MKM)

Summarizes responses to a questionnaire on popular literature courses that was sent to English department chairpersons. (GT)

Recommends eight books about literature, literary criticism, and the teaching of literature. (MG)

Relates autobiographically the author's experiences learning to write as an inventor, in the process exemplifying personal writing as a mode to be fostered in composition courses. Argues for a presentation of writing as a constant discovery and construction of knowledge rather than an accumulation of facts. (HB)

Examines the stories of four female literary characters from modern literature, all of whom experienced a forced departure from home. The cross-cultural experiences of these indomitable women provide hope and illustrate that adverse conditions can demonstrate triumph of the human spirit. Success or failure is linked with finding home again. (MMU)

Report of a Subject-Field Meeting at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Independent Schools, February 1969.

Although both literary study and discourse analysis examine texts and oral discourses, literary study tends to emphasize the totality of the text while discourse analysis seeks to isolate manageable elements and structures to validate hypotheses about mental processes. Interaction has recently occurred between the two disciplines in…

This leveled curriculum guide, composed of assignment and evaluation sheets, is divided into five different sections. Freshmen Grammar deals with such topics as subject-verb agreement, punctuation and capitalization, possessives, complete sentences, parts of speech, correct verb form, simple and complex sentences, and correct word form. Freshman…