Tips on creating a course in film making, one that will help students master basic English skills. (RL)

Two high school English teachers disagree on the efficacy of making jokes about racial and cultural stereotypes. (RL)

Reports on ways of having fun with the classics of literature. Describes classroom uses of parody and satire to emphasize the themes and characterizations found in Shakespeare, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, and other noted authors. (RL)

Indicates some of the pitfalls of using humor in the high school English classroom. Notes the need for striking a balance between serious and humorous classroom discussion. (RL)

Explains how puns work and how they are formed. (RL)

Offers tongue-in-cheek rules for being a humorless English teacher. (RL)

An English teacher describes her feelings, experiences, and attitudes about keeping humor in the classroom. (RL)

Suggests ways of using parody, comedy, language play, and satire to vary classroom routines and to maintain a level of excitement in the English classroom. (RL)

Notes the unintentional humor so often found in directions. Describes an assignment on writing directions carefully--and the humorous results. (RL)

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

The theory and practice of analyzing jokes, with implications for class discussions. (RL)

Presents responses from 22 teachers on activities used to increase student awareness of language usage and language patterns and to heighten student appreciation for specific works of literature. (RL)

Explains why humor should be studied in English classrooms and how humorous writing serves as a vehicle for making its readers more socially conscious of human values. Offers a list of books that can be used in classroom discussions of humor. (RL)

A summary of research on young adult literature, including reading interest surveys, studies on the developmental stages of adolescents, analyses of characterizations in young adult novels, and approaches for using this literature in the classroom. Provides a bibliography of resources about adolescent/young adult literature. (RL)

Reviews research on sentence combining. Notes some of the specific problems of using sentence combining and points out the particular values that make it an instructional device both for the teacher and for the student. (RL)