This issue of the Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC) Journal focuses on curriculum. Featured articles include: (1) "Curriculum: What Is It? How Do You Know if It Is Quality?" (Sally Walker); (2) "Tiered Lessons: What Are Their Benefits and Applications?" (Carol Ann Tomlinson); (3) "Do Gifted and Talented Youth Get Counseling, Models, and Mentors To Motivate Them To Strive for Expertise and Creative Achievement?" (John F. Feldhusen); (4) "Biography Is the People Subject" (Jerry Flack); (5) "Abraham Lincoln: Gifted Man and a Hero for the Ages" (Jerry Flack); (6) "Responding to Failure" (Ann MacDonald and Jim Riley); (7) "The Not-So Gifted Parent: Replacing Trial and Error with Identification and Intervention" (Monica Lu); (8) "They Don't Teach THAT in School" (Dorothy Funk-Werbio): (9) "A Poet in a Classroom of Engineers and Lawyers: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Artistically Gifted Children" (Nancy Elf and Pat Rose); (10) "A Visit from a Poet and Other Literary Devices" (J. Christine Gould); (11) "Creative Application: A Necessary Part of a Comprehensive Curriculum in the Gifted Middle School General Music Classroom" (Lois Veenhoven Guderian); (12) "Marching to the Beat of an Ever Different Drummer" (Sylvia Rimm); (13) "Teaching to the Learning Styles of Creatively Gifted Children" (Joan Franklin Smutny); (14) "The Millennium: A Time for Looking Forward and Looking Back" (E. Paul Torrance); and (15) "Must-Have Books for Educators of the Gifted and Talented" (Jerry Flack). (Some articles include references.) (CR)