The article asserts that classroom English is at its liveliest and best when students read and write and talk about matters close to the center of their needs and hopes. Stresses the English teacher's influence on students' literary and intellectual growth. (Author/JB)

A narrative account of a lesson on Frost's Dust of Snow"; part of a work-in-progress, The Fragment and Other Gross Errors." (Editor/RD)

Reports the daily activities of a two-week foreign travel study course for literature classes. (AEA)

Suggests that the short story, because of its brevity and simplicity of construction, is often more suitable than the novel for classroom discussion. (HOD)

Offers a rebuttal to an earlier article in which the author had argued that language use must not be distorted to serve political purposes. (HOD)

Discusses teaching a college class in English Renaissance nondramatic literature. (AEA)

Examines the invitations and speech situations implicit in lyric poetry that often alienate students with little poetry experience. Presents five conditions English teachers can provide that will make poetry more accessible to students, particularly the invention needed to accept the "invitation" of a poem. (HTH)

Discusses folklore as the basis for literary study. Discusses two major theoretical positions on folklore universals--behaviorism and structuralism--and applies the two theories to literary analysis. (FL)

Describes the content of a nine-week course on comedy in literature. (RL)

Methods and resources for using feature films in literature classes. (RL)

Draws information from documents in the ERIC system to define oral interpretation, demonstrate its benefits for students, and describe classroom approaches to oral interpretation, including readers' theatre. (DD)

Uses students' writings about their responses to particular books to raise questions about the kinds of responses students are being taught. (AA)

Draws teaching suggestions from an analysis of secondary school students' comments about their experiences with fiction. (AA)

The first in a two-part series, this article presents a brief history of the young adult novel, suggests how to use it in the English classroom, and lists some of its characteristics. (DD)