Discusses the use of literature in the television program "Beauty and the Beast." Suggests that, despite his inhuman appearance, the Beast has transcended the physical confinement of the tunnels and has traveled the universe of his imagination. (RS)

Challenges readers to work harder than they have been working for young adult literature in general and ALAN in particular. Suggests ways to promote young adult literature. (SR)

Describes the 50-minute lecture the author gave to a twelfth-grade college prep high school class on the first 18 lines of Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." Discusses how the author learned that her frustration with her college students' perceived lack of knowledge was based on her own lack of understanding of how high school students…

A dream literature class grew into an artistic and critical garden in which students' and instructor's thinking flowered.

Describes a teaching technique for introducing student to the beauty of poetry. (RB)

Discusses the merits of responding intellectually versus affectively to the language that is employed in a poem. (RB)

Discusses ten basic questions about high school reading instruction and the English teacher. (DD)

Uses Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne Takes You Down" to break down students' initial resistance to studying poetry. (AA)

Results of asking secondary school students about their responses to fiction, with implications for teaching. (AA)

A mock-heroic poem as a writing assignment, after a study of Pope. One student's response is included. (AA)

Offers one teacher's approach to teaching Robert Hayden's poem "The Whipping," along with her students' responses to the poem. (ARH)

Suggests using John Dryden's "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687" to introduce students to a unit on poetry. (AEA)

Discusses suggestions for implementing a foreign travel study course for literature classes. Includes a two-week itinerary and a syllabus. (HTH)

Considers teachers' uncertainties about approaches to teaching fiction, and suggests one practical beginning for a coordinated program. (AA)

Discusses a paperback program designed for new entrants to secondary school. A sample pupil progress sheet is included as an appendix. (AA)