Article describes in detail use of individualized self-paced learning packages" to improve reading, writing and other skills. Packages include pretest, progress self-test and posttest. Program involves team-teaching and much inter-disciplinary action, with considerable flexbility in scheduling and classroom setting. (PD)

Article discusses and summarizes recent publications touching on secondary school student activism, in particular the demands for greater student involvement in planning a more relevant" curriculum. Student participation in school administration is also covered. (PD)

Kentucky writer describes the friendships he has made with readers all over the world who identify with the Appalachian characters in his books. (PD)

As part of study of Fromm's Alienation and Capitalism," Minnesota high school students, at teacher's suggestion, wrote various corporation executives asking their opinion of how much advertising alienates consumers from their real selves. The result: stimulating replies, lively classroom discussions. (PD)

Author explains why she has found in The Bhagavad Gita" a solution to the perennial problem of discovering literature not only of high literary calibre, historical interest and ready availability but also relevant to modern students. (Author/PD)

Presents three commentaries--by a teacher, a textbook author, and a textbook publisher--examining issues associated with elementary and secondary school textbooks. (MM)

Examines tasks provided for students in most literature textbooks used in the United States, noting that these tasks typically control students' responses to literature. Relates these tasks to current theory and research on the reading process. Describes activities from literature texts used in Canada that facilitate literary response. (MM)

Urges high school English departments to integrate literature by and about women into the English curriculum. Describes several activities that bring this literature into the classroom, and provides a list of available materials to balance the curriculum. (MM)

Describes an approach that pairs every male-authored novel, play, short story, or poem taught in the English curriculum with one written by a woman. Illustrates this approach in a course pairing Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Provides an annotated list of works that examine the subject of gender issues in schools. (MM)

Describes an approach to incorporate feminist inquiry into the American literature course. Asserts that this approach creates a learning situation responsive to the needs and interests of all students. (MM)

Describes how to incorporate literature by women from many parts of the globe into the English curriculum. (MM)

Investigates characteristics of young adult romance novels, particularly their lack of humor. Discusses ways to use romance in the classroom. Provides a list of young adult novels that deal with romance, humor, and body image. (MM)

Describes an interdisciplinary unit combining eighth-grade language arts and U.S. history, based on the study of the immigrant experience and involving writing across the curriculum and role-playing. (MM)

Examines four stages of reading development, and discusses the differences between a developing adolescent reader and an adult reader. Notes that early stages of reading development are bridges to the world of mature, adult experiences with books, and urges English teachers to encourage developing readers' enthusiasm for all literature. (MM)

Describes how the author role-played a character from "To Kill a Mockingbird" to stimulate classroom discussion of the novel. (MM)