Offers a number of techniques designed to challenge or alter or disrupt how a student perceives reality, thereby facilitating student development in creative thinking. (RL)

Methods and resources for using feature films in literature classes. (RL)

Two teachers provide contrasting views on whether bilingual education is effective, necessary, or even desirable. (RL)

A poem reviewing the plot of "Macbeth" is a sample of what teachers and students can create as a review exercise before examinations. (RL)

A combination of drills, quizzes, journal writing, and creative class activities was used in a summer program designed to develop the vocabulary of gifted students. (RL)

Suggestions on how to make English classes a positive part of the tragic experience of students reacting to the death of a classmate. (RL)

Differentiates modernism and postmodernism to show that despite the differences in form in twentieth century American literature--differences that high school students must be made aware of--there are patterns in the American experience that are of recurrent, urgent, and ultimate concern for the American artist. (Author/RL)

Class activities such as discussing student work in editing group sessions or on the viewing screen can be used successfully to teach revision and ensure polished student writing. (RL)

The literature of the United States West offers a wide variety of materials and themes to capture students' imaginations and provide understanding of their heritage. (Author/RL)

A rationale and procedure for promoting outside reading and assigning book reports. (RL)

Reviewing one rule of grammar at the beginning of each class period and requiring each student to create three new sentences with the rule provides a routine at the beginning of English class that is effective as a time-saver for the teacher and a learning device for the student. (RL)

A dozen recommended steps for organizing and running book fairs that develop student reading habits and reading interests. (RL)

Reports on a class activity in which students wrote letters to leaders and personalities in the fields of art, literature, and politics to solicit bits of their "trash" for a student art show. (RL)

Argues that English teachers who use plays in their classes should emphasize the effects and interpretation of the words of the scripts as they are spoken. Offers four suggestions whereby teachers can focus on the playscript as it is performed, not written. (RL)

Six educators discuss the progress and remaining problems of fighting sexist language, both in the classroom and in literature and other reading materials. Some techniques for promoting sex-fair language are offered. (RL)