Presents 12 classroom activities designed to increase student participation and help students refine and develop their abilities to use spoken English in discussion situations. (RB)

Discusses an English elective course entitled Supernatural Literature and Communication'' in terms of its literary value, course content, and improvement of basic language skills. (RB)

Describes a broadcast media program designed to provide vocational and academic training in closed circuit television, radio production, film production, and general audio-visual servcing. (RB)

Reports on a sample mini-course in the humanities entitled A Several-Circled Search for Self'' which employs the circus as a theme while stressing the importance of student involvement and the development of self-concept. (RB)

Discusses the objectives and presents instructional materials for a course entitled Women in American Literature'' which attempts to introduce students to the concept of alternative life styles for American women. (RB)

Discusses the idea of using graffiti as a technique for teaching a poetry course and improving classroom communication. (RB)

Encourages teachers of English to use dramatic activity as a means for studying the emotional qualities so abundant in literature. (RB)

Since one of the teacher's primary aims is to build a student's confidence in his own ability, teaching poems which are lyric and readily accessible is a good way to begin a poetry unit. (Author/RB)

Suggests pollution as a thematic approach for making nineteenth century literature relevant to the modern student and lists instructional materials for such a course. (RB)

The "Standard Written English" test newly added to the Scholastic Aptitude Test is reactionalry, unscholarly, and potentially discriminatory. (JH)

A glossary and guide to feminist writings. (JH)

English teachers should give most attention to counteracting the tendency for public language to become an unreliable instrument of communication. (JH)

Students should be invited to write dramatic scripts rather than reporting or discussing. (JH)

School problems are reflections of the problems of a troubled society; teachers need most to care for and be honest with their students, who often are victims of their society. (JH)

English teachers do not take their subject--language--seriously enough; command of language is what students need to find themselves and cope with the forces of society. (JH)