Describes fourteen innovative high school English units dealing with such subjects as literature (e.g., "Nobel Prize Winning World Literature,""The Eskimo and His Literature," and "Women's Literature"), the mass media, and Greek mythology. (DD)

Describes a writing exercise in which the fictional world of a literary piece is transformed into a real world containing people, events, and places. Suggests that students choose their own writing topics and act out the results. Notes that sources of worlds include epic poems, Shakespeare, and Greek mythology. (RS)

In a thematic study she calls The Hero's Journey, the author introduces the classical archetype of the hero and the journey of the hero with Homer's "The Odyssey." After all, the wily tactician dreams up the idea for the wooden horse trick, thereby winning the war for the Greeks. He visits hell and, against all odds, makes it back. He defeats the…