Describes the author's own entry into the use of technology as a teacher, which showed him that different people talk when you change the arena of discussion. Focuses on how learning happens differently when different technologies are employed, and explores how this learning applies to different facets of the English teacher's work. (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…

Notes that by exploring Depression-era teens' letter writing, language arts teachers can enjoy more fruitful uses of nonfiction with their students. Discusses how reading, analyzing, and responding to the letters could help minimize the widening gap between the 1930s and the twenty-first century. Concludes that researching everyday Americans'…

"Where is God now?" is a question from the Holocaust memoir "Night" by Elie Wiesel and an underlying narrative dilemma for the teachers and most student participants in this qualitative study of three Holocaust units in secondary English classrooms in the Midwestern United States. Using a narrative theory framework, this study explores how…

This article deals with texts that effectively raise issues related to 9/11 for secondary students, as discussed by several teachers. Kevin J. Collins from St. Thomas Aquinas High School says, "Elephant," Gus Van Sant's exploration of a Columbine-like tragedy, underscores the current generation's attempt to define the meaning of events in…

Discusses some of the difficulties of teaching poetry that arise from the need to interest students while avoiding an explication that turns them away from poetry. (RB)

Presents the students' evaluation of a course in literature designed to prepare students for the Certificate of Secondary Education. (RB)

Describes a course in which students are allowed to select their own reading materials and read according to individual tastes. (RB)

Discusses the importance of teaching poetry and lists the works of poets widely liked by adolescents. (RB)

These models are offered as guides for departments in writing behavioral objectives for their particular school situation. They provide a variety of usable suggestions and information for language arts teachers. Language arts (English) programs for both Junior and Senior High Schools are presented in relation to: (1) Goals, (2) Instruction, and…