Article reviews Hesse's novels for their social and moral values and stresses their influence upon today's students. (GB)

Article stresses giving students the opportunity to express themselves in a supervised situation which is accepting and non-punitive in order to meet their emotional needs. (GB)

Presents an interpretation of Eudora Welty's A Worn Path'' that indicates three elements of immortality. (MM)

Explains how Odysseus represents four qualities that the youth of today find salient in their culture. (MM)

Describes a questionnaire used by the author to elicit a list of most often read books by her students and analyzes the appeal these books might have for the student. (MM)

A humorous satire on outdated required materials and teaching methods. (MM)

Illustrates how a linguistic analysis of Hemingway's prose style can be appealing to a student by being precise instead of vague and being a procedure. (MM)

Describes a poetry project encouraging the student, through multimedia, to perceive poetry as a personal creative activity. (MM)

Describes a poetry unit for grade 8 aimed toward (1) showing that contemporary music can be termed poetry; (2) involving students in expressing themselves dramatically; and (3) exposing the students to various types of poetry to illustrate how words can be used to enhance their own lives. (MM)

Applied mainly to low achievers, the writing and reading program formulated by this teacher was based on a personal approach aimed toward inculcating the habit of thinking. (MM)