With each issue focusing on a different theme, volume 19 of "Inside English" looks at the cultural diversity in the community college curriculum, teaching literature at all levels, teaching writing at all levels, and the challenge of teaching English in the 1990's. In addition to regular columns on the English Council of California Two-Year Colleges (ECCTYC) and legislative concerns, the issues include the following feature articles: (1) "Cultural Diversity: A Feminist Perspective. Whose Politics? Whose Canon?" by Nancy Gray; (2) "A Primer on Chicano Literature," by Jesus J. Gonzales; (3) "'La Bamba': Film as Text," by Janet Madden and Sara Blake; (4) "Redefining the American Novel: Isabel Allende and Other Latin American Writers," by Jack Jackson; (5) "Multicultural Freshman Comp: Strategies for Infusing Cultural Diversity," by Millie M. Kidd; (6) "Rethinking the Canon: The Commonplace Book of Our Shared Culture," by Mark Nicoll-Johnson; (7) "Reader-Response Theory as a First Step in a Literature Class," by Vincent F. Piro; (8) "From Story to Poetry: Using Ballads to Bridge the Genres," by Madeline Loewe Puccioni; (9) "Traditional Literature in an Untraditional Comp Class: Myths About Convicts, and Vice Versa," by Dan Satterlee; (10) "Modifying Teaching Behavior: Encouraging Critical Thinking in a Composition Class," by Judith Rose; (11) "Developing Students' Critical Thinking and Writing: Using the Dialectical Journal," by Sheila Thorne; (12) "Rediscovering Model Essays: Teaching to the Many While Not Neglecting the Few," by Alison Kuehner; (13) "Talking Back: Personalized Cassettes and ESL (English as a Second Language) Students," by La Vergne Rosow; (14) "Helping Students Do the Thinking: Empowering Students, Enlivening Classes," by Marlene Martin; (15) "Salvage Operations and Miraculous Recoveries: Dealing With Problem Classes," by James Piper; (16) "Serving At Risk Students: Humanizing the Curriculum and the Classroom," by John F. Gardenhire; (17) "Using Classroom Assessment: Teachers as Researchers," by Jim Whearty and Kim Wolterbeek; and (18) "Breaking Down the Walls of Prejudice: Holistic Learning in the Writing Classroom," by James R. Musgrave. (JMC)