The objectives of a proposed high school course entitled Minority Literature II are to enable students to (1) become familiar with minority literature, (2) compare and contrast the works of the various minority group writers, and (3) determine which minority group writers are actively contributing to the American literary heritage. Students will…

Shows how dwelling on a great poem will continually deepen one's sense of delight. (EL)

Conveys personal response to poetry. Ponders the mystery of learning and the relationship of literature to life. (EL)

A guide to the teaching of grammar as a process of inquiry into the ways meaning is conveyed. (DD)

Describes a course in semiotics (the study of signs and systems of communication) taught for the past 10 years by the author. (DD)

Points out that students in creative writing classes can look to students in other disciplines, curricula of other departments, and school clubs and organizations to discover audiences for creative writing. (DD)

Suggests an activity that helps students see the relationship of suffixes to particular parts of speech. (TJ)

Presents a fictional interview with an ineffective English teacher. (DD)

Offers middle and secondary teachers a conceptual framework to guide their explorations into language with their students. Notes that many methods have risen and fallen. Concludes that, if students learn to generalize about language, they will be more successful in their usage of rules. (RS)

Argues that the ongoing debate about grammatical instruction in schools is a product of a reductivist, reactionary ideology that mistakes mechanics for grammar and proceeds from a deficit model, constantly punishing students for their lack of "grammatical" precision and general ignorance in matters of construction. Suggests that grammar…

Offers four reviews of readable and user-friendly handbooks or dictionaries of English usage, and ideas for their use in teaching. Includes handmade as well as published handbooks. (PRA)

Describes how a high school English instructor used the Valdez oil spill to illustrate the meaning in Samuel Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." (PRA)

Provides five responses to Edward Lasky's article, "A Modern Day Albatross: The Valdez and Some of Life's Other Spills" in the same issue of this journal. (PRA)