Table Of Content

INDEXES Volume 85, January-December 1996 AUTHOR INDEX Allen, Janet S., Potato Barrels, Animal Traps, Birth Brown, Donna M., Magic Theater: Unlocking the Cook, Lenora, What is a “Regular” English Class- Control, and Unicorns: Re-Visioning Teach- Worlds of Foreign Students (One Person's room? Language and Cultural Diversity in ing and Learning in English Classes, February Opinion), December 13 Today's Schools, December 49 38 Brown, Stan, Transferring Names into a New Ad- Cotner, Cindy, (Art), September 62 Alvine, Lynne B., Teaching Adolescent Girls (Re- dress Book (Poetry), October 84 Crews, Brenda, Enjoying Autumn, September 64 sources and Reviews), December 82 Bucknum, Fern Klopp, What IS Grammar? Crist, Patricia J., Thou Shalt Not Grow Stale— Angelico-Hart, Dael, | Was a Whole Language (Game), November 73 Four Commandments for Veteran Teachers, Teacher Before 1 Had a Name, February 32 Burk, David S., Poetry Browsing: You Can't Expli- September 54 Anthony, Jill, Newfoundland Knots (Bedside cate 'Em All (Middle Ground), January 82 Crowell, Sheila C., The Writers’ Room: The Story Table), January 94 Busekist, Sarah, Toward a Whole Partnership, of a Writing Center, October 50 Argys, Richard, Surviving a Career in Public Edu- February 35 Crowther, Hal, We Shall Overcome, April 21 cation, September 63 Byrnes, Barbara, Grandpa (Poetry), March 54 Cruz, MaryCarmen, Continuing the Legacy (Rain- Armstrong, Colleen, Deborah Tannen Comes to Camalo, Rose Ann, When Acceptance Isn't bow Teachers/Rainbow Students), September Class: Implications of Gender and Conversa- Enough: Helping ESL Students Become Suc- 88 tion in the Classroom (One Person's Opin- cessful Writers, December 25 Cruz, MaryCarmen, Witches, Ghosts, and Other ion), February 15 Campbell, Joy, “If 1 Could Carve My Face”—In- Apparitions (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Stu- Backstrom, James, Yellow Field (Poetry), April 42 spiring the Creative Writing Process (Teaching dents), October 100 Ball, Arnetha FE, Expository Writing Patterns of Ideas), October 106 Cruz, MaryCarmen, New Worlds, Old Wis- African American Students, January 27 Canty, Donnella, McMillan Arrives (Bedside dom (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students), Baron, Dennis, (Cartoon), January 66, September Table), April 86 November 116 10 Carlson, Gordon, Is There a Doctor of Rhetoric in Cruz, MaryCarmen, Teaching Poetry: Dehy- Barton, Fred, Living with a Greyhound, April 49 the House? (One Person's Opinion), October 16 drated Food for the Soul (Rainbow Teach- Baskin, Rory S., Japan: Learning English and Carney, Barbara, Process Writing and the Sec- ers/Rainbow Students), December 72 Learning about English (Global Issues), Feb- ondary School Reality: A Compromise, Octo- Dacey, Philip, Two by Philip Dacey: Puff; Books ruary 82 ber 28 (Poetry), October 36 Bedy, Lorraine A., Burnout and Renewal, Septem- Carroll, Pamela Sissi, When Acceptance Isn't Dachel, Anne, (Cartoon), March 95 ber 64 Enough: Helping ESL Students Become Suc Daniel, Patricia L., Inducting an Eighth Grader Beers, Kylene, On the Breath of a Cloud (Young cessful Writers, December 25 into the Literacy Club, March 32 Adult Literature), March 96 Cassidy, Jacquelyn A., Computer-Assisted Lan- Davis, Bonnie M., Wniting Across the Ages: A Beiben, Cathy, The Patron Saint of Membership, guage Arts Instruction for the ESL Learner, Working Writer's Workshop, January 37 April 23 December 55 Davis, Terry, A Healing Vision, March 36 Belben, Cathy, Serious Repercussions, April 34 Caswell, Kurt, The Proper Question (Bedside Dearden, Myron, Teacher: (Poetry), March 49 Bencich, Carole Beeghly, Writing and Teaching Table), October 123 Dempsey, Chris, Yearbook Signing Day, April 46 (Resources and Reviews), March 91 Cavanaugh, M. P, History of Teaching English as Dodd, Anne Wescott, What Do Parents Mean Bendetson, Jane, Africa: Yonondio, September 57 a Second Language, December 40 When They Talk about Writing “Basics” and Blake, Frances, When Acceptance Isn't Enough: Cheney, Fred, The Top Ten (Bedside Table), Feb- What Should English Teachers Do about It?, Helping ESL Students Become Successful ruary 92 January 58 Writers, December 25 Chin, Beverly Ann, Standards Yes: Lets Use the Donelson, Kenneth L., 1995 Honor Listing: Bolin, Bill, Pluralism (Coming To Terms), March NCTEARA Standards in Our Classrooms and Can Less Be More? (Young Adult Literature), 101 Communities (One Persons Opinion), Sep- November 130 Bone, Alan, Toward a Whole Partnership, Febru- tember 14 Dow, Miriam C., Autobiography: A Course That ary 35 Christenbury, Leila, From the Editor, January 12, Never Fails, October 85 Bowden, Darsie, Plagiarism (Coming To Terms), February 13, March 13, April 13, September Downing, Karen, House and Body, April 32 April 82 11, October 13, November 11, December 11 Duff, Ogle Burks, Continuing the Legacy (Rain- Brauer, Lee, (Photograph), April 22 Christenbury, Leila, The Judges (Literary Festi- bow Teachers/Rainbow Students), September Brodie, Peter, Never Say Never: Teaching Gram- val), April 19 88 mar and Usage, November 77 Christian, Cameron E., Listening to Beach Music Duff, Ogle Burks, Witches, Ghosts, and Other Ap- Brooks, Charlotte K., Learning through Project (Bedside Table), December 97 paritions (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Stu- Wonder (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Stu- Cleary, Linda Miller, “I Think 1 Know What My dents), October 100 dents), January 72 Teachers Want Now”: Gender and Writing Duff, Ogle Burks, New Worlds, Old Wisdom (Rain- Brooks, Charlotte K., A Letter to Teachers of Lit- Motivation, January 50 bow Teachers/Rainbow Students), November erature (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Stu- Colgan, John, Writing—The Semantics of a 116 dents), March 82 Loaded Word, October 23 Duff, Ogle Burks, Teaching Poetry: Dehydrated Brooks, Charlotte K., A Final Column (Rainbow Collins, Kathleen M., Strategic Instruction for Food for the Soul (Rainbow Teachers/Rain- Teachers/Rainbow Students), April 65 Struggling Wniters, October 54 bow Students), December 72 Brown, Alvin R., Correct Grammar So Essential to Conway, Carol M., The Revitalization of the Long Epstein, Peggy, A Research Experiment in Par- Effective Writing Can Be Taught—Really!, No- Distance Runner, September 71 ent/Teen Communication, February 64 vember 98 English Journal Ericson, Bonnie, The Censorship Crisis (Re- Henneberg, Susan, Dimensions of Failure in Lindstrom, Braden, A Novella Idea: A Student’ sources and Reviews), January 79 Reader Response, March 21 First Novel, October 79 Ericson, Bonnie, Teaching All Ages of At-Risk Stu- Hennessey, Joan, (Photograph), September 12, Lockward, Diane, A Journey to Recovery (Bedside dents: Making Connections (Resources and Re- November 45 Table), February 90 views), April 75 Hill, Crag, The Places We Live and Love (Bedside Luce-Kapler, Rebecca, Narrating the Portfolio Ericson, Bonnie, Other Recent Books on Reading Table), March 103 Landscape, January 46 (Resources and Reviews), November 125 Hirtle, Jeannine St. Pierre, Social Constructivism Lunt, Tim, (Cartoon), January 73 Faust, Mark A., Intermediate Possibilities: The (Coming To Terms), January 91 Mader, Arti, Picture This: Reflections of a Veteran Language of Reform and Dewey's Experience Hoff, Deborah A., Tinfoil (Poetry), April 44 Teacher, September 31 and Education, October 94 Holt, Dan, Rain Shadow (Poetry), April 40 Maier, Barbara Jo, A Twenty-Year Veteran Prepares Fehlman, Richard H., Viewing Film and Televi- Holvig, Kenneth C.,. MACBETH (The Voyager to Leave the Rickety Structures of Public Edu- sion as Whole Language Instruction, February Shakespeare) (Software), April 85 cation, September 45 43 Howard, Ginnah, Heart, February 67 Marcus, Karen, All You Need Is Love: Using Fenigsohn, Harvey, Trading Places: A Yank-Brit Hryciuk, Natalie, Ward 2 North (Poetry), April 38 Shakespeare to Build Community, March 58 Swap (Global Issues), October 111 Hunter, Alyce, Re-reading a Classic (Bedside Marion, Jeff Daniel, On Opening a Box of Crayola Fishman, Andrea, Blinded by the Light (One Per- Table), September 110 Crayons; After Reading Old Crickets Poems son's Opinion), November 13 Hunter, Anthony D., A New Grammar That Has the Chinese Poet Takes Up His Walking Stick Fox, Dana L., Learning to Teach through Inquiry Clearly Improved Writing, November 102 and Goes Out to Meditate on an Appropriate (New Teachers), October 114 Hutchinson, Jamie, The jazz and Poetry Connec- Response (Poetry), January 68 Fox, Dana L., Valuing Cultural Diversity (New tion: A Performance Guide for Teachers and McCann, Thomas M., A Pioneer Simulation for Teachers), December 87 Students, September 80 Writing and for the Study of Literature, March Franek, Mark, Producing Student Films: Shake- lanacone, John A., Passion and Craft in Writing: 62 speare on Screen, March 50 Finding a Balance, October 17 McCiain, Ellen Jaffe, Canadian Trio (Bedside Gagliardi, Cindy, Changing the Rules (Teaching Jago, Carol, Bird by Bird (Teaching Ideas), October Tabie), December 95 Ideas), March 86 104 McCracken, Nancy, Reconstructing Language and Gallo, Donald R., A Love of Reading (Resources Jago, Carol, The E-mail Dialogues (Bedside Learning for the 21st Century: The NCTE in- and Reviews), November 125 Table), December 96 ternationai Conference and the International Garland, Sylvia, I'll Be Fine, April 28 Kameny, Lynn, Scaring Up Some Unity: Bilingual Federation of Teachers of English Conference, Gassen, Bob, (Cartoon), April 18, September 29, Halloween Stories in the ESL Classroom, De- IFTE #6 (Global Issues), April 76 October 83, November 12, 54 cember 45 McGlinn, Marguerite, A Braver Thing: On Plan- Gavin, Rosemarie, The Lion King and Hamlet: A Kane, Sharon, What Part of Speech Is O. J. Simp- ning My Mother’ Funeral, April 54 Homecoming for the Exiled Child, March 55 son?: Teaching Grammar and Style through McGovern, Jerome, Two by Jerome McGovern: Gehrke, Rachel, Responding to Audience: Using the News, November 88 Adirondack, Blood (Poetry), September 86 Rubrics to Teach and Assess Writing, October Kaywell, Joan FE, Enhancing Your Writing through McSweeney, William E., Trio of Tales (Bedside 67 the Masters or What Makes a Good Work Table), April 87 Gere, Anne Ruggles, Teachers Yesterday, Today, and Good (Young Adult Literature), September 104 Megyeri, Kathy A., Reading Aloud Student Writ- Tomorrow: Learners Forever, September 40 Keating, Michele, Exploring Charlies M. Russell ing, March 74 Gillespie, Tirn, Save, April 53 and Others through Biography, December 66 Megyeri, Kathy A., Tribute, September 24 Glau, Gregory R., Articulation and Student Kelly, Kathryn H., Down in the Dumps (Bedside Messer, Smadar, When Acceptance Isn't Enough: Voices: Eliminating the Perception that “High Table), January 94 Helping ESL Students Become Successful School English Doesn't Teach You Nothing,” Kelly, Patricia P, Conversations in Heidelberg Writers, December 25 January 17 (Global Issues), December 85 Metcalf, Jeff, (Cartoon), January 73 Gleeson, Anne, Should Teachers of Writing Write Kesler, Russ, Two by Russ Kesler: Habanero; Mikulak, Ronald, Pigeon, Parc Dauphin, Paris Themselves?: An Australian Contribution to Jonah, Later (Poetry), September 61 (Photograph), April cover, 37 the Debate, October 42 Knowles, Mary Tyler, The English Teacher's Inter- Mitchell, Diana, A New Look at Nonfiction in the Gordon, Tina, Teaching Writing in the 1990s, Oc- net Resource Guide (Software), December 91 Classroom (Teaching Ideas), February 74 tober 37 Kolba, Ellen D., The Writers’ Room: The Story of Mitchell, Diana, Using New Novels without Being Goto, Stanford T., School Achievement from One a Writing Center, October 50 Overwhelmed (Teaching Ideas), March 85 Asian American Perspective, September 74 Kolin, Martha, Rhetorical Grammar: A Modifica- Mitchell, Diana, Springtime Sanity Savers (Teach- Greenway, William, Poems and Paintings: Shades tion Lesson, November 25 ing Ideas), April 67 of the Prison House, March 42 Krogness, Mary Mercer, Relating School and Life Mitchell, Diana, Writing to Learn Across the Cur- Gribbin, Bill, The Role of Generalization in Study- through Cinderella (Middle Ground), Septem- riculum and the English Teacher (Teaching ing Grammar and Usage, November 55 ber 101 Ideas), September 93 Hague, Richard, Adam Earth (Poetry), April 41 Krogness, Mary Mercer, Censorship and Imagina- Mitchell, Diana, Approaching Race and Gender Haley, Elisabeth, Old Dog/New Tricks: Reteaching tion (Middle Ground), November 127 Issues in the Context of the Language Arts Huck Finn and Pop Culture (Teaching Ideas), Kwayana, Tchaiko Ruramai, The Identity Paper: Classroom (Teaching Ideas), December 77 November 121 Parents Join with Students to Write Family Moore, Michael, The E-mail Dialogues (Bedside Hall, Ellen, (Cartoon), April 12, Octeber 15 History, January 62 Table), December 96 Hamlin, Margaret C., Having MY Say, September LaFontana, Virginia R., Throw Away That Cor- Morrison, Diane B., You Want Cyber WHAT? A 66 recting Pen, October 71 Timid Schoolteachers Guide to Technology Hanson, Krista L. Finstad, Minnesota Farm Fam- Lancianese, A. Maria, Connecting with Our Fu- and the Internet (Software), February 87 ily (Bedside Table), October 121 ture Selves (Teaching Ideas), April 71 Murdick, William, What English Teachers Need Harvey, Robert C., English Is Like Any Other Lardner, Ted, “Lessons Spaced by Heartbeats”: to Know about Grammar, November 38 Sport (One Person's Opinion), January 15 Performance Poetry in a Ninth-Grade Class- Nash, Peter Adam, Mob Rule and the Teaching of Hassenpflug, Ann, When a Picture May Be Worth room, December 60 Literature (One Person's Opinion), April 16 a Thousand Words (One Person’ Opinion), Larson, Mark, Watch Your Language: Teaching Newell, Michael L., Golden (Poetry), December March 17 Standard Usage to Resistant and Reluctant 65 Heeres, Randall, The End of Exploring (Bedside Learners, November 91 Nilsen, Alleen Pace, 1995 Honor Listing’ Can Table), September 108 Laughlin, Rosemary, Telephone List (Poetry), Less Be More? (Young Adult Literature), No- Heginbotham, Eleanor, Worlds Elsewhere: NEH April 43 vember 130 Summers and Long Distance Runners, Sep- Laughlin, Rosemary, Beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls Nuernberg, Susan M., “Give Us Howling and tember 48 (Bedside Table), November 137 Naked Savagery”: Jack London and The Call of Heller, Daniel A., This World of English, Septem- Leece, Bill, (Photograph), January 13, March 19, the Wild (Resources and Reviews). September ber 111, October 125, November 139, De- October 16, 113, November 114, 129 98 cember 98 LeMonds, James, From Butterflies to Bigfoot (Bed- O'Donnell, Roy C., In Memoriam Dwight Lowell Heller, Stephen B., Bundrens, Faulkner, and Gram- side Table), October 122 Burton 1922-1995, April 14 mar, November 75 Lengel, Gena, Two by Gena Lengel: The “Y”; Win- Oster, Leslie, Can You Go Home Again? (Bedside Henderson, Chris, A Literary Mystery (Bedside ter, with My Son (Poetry), February 31 Table), April 88 Table), November 138 Lesesne, Teri, On the Breath of a Cloud (Young Owen, Trevor, Other Peoples’ Children, Decem- Adult Literature), March 96 ber 34 112 December 1996 Paschke, Meredith, Things College Never Taught Schade, Lisa, Demystifying the Text: Literary Criti- Tensen, Tracy Anderson, A Wilder Approach to Me (New Teachers), February 85 cism in the High School Classroom, March 26 Teaching Wilder (Teaching ideas), November Pavonetti, Linda M., Dora V. Smith: Echoes of a Schiller, Laura, Teachers Yesterday, Today, and To- 119 Strong Voice in English Education, October 89 morrow: Learners Forever, September 40 Thomas, Lee, Taking the G-r-r-r Out of Grammar, Pearcy, Teresa Powell, In Need of Motivation and Schulz, Clair, (Cartoon), November 136, Decem- November 46 Inspiration (Bedside Table), February 91 ber 12 Thompson, Glenda, (Photograph), November 14 Peckman, Sherri, Developing Student Ownership Scott, Sallie Hughes, Mary; Polyphemus Revisited Thurmond, Jr., Gerald P, Abandoned Cafe, New in the “Real World,” February 60 (Poetry), January 40 Mexico (Photograph), Apri! 45 Perreault, George, Writing from the Limbic Brain: Shitai, Zhao, Vocabulary Study: An Active Learn- Trapp, Stanley, Fish Guts on the Windshield (Po- A (Perhaps) Foolproof Way to Generate Stu- ing Process, February 83 etry), April 43 dent Poetry (Teaching Ideas), October 103 Shuman, R. Baird, Writing Across the Community Tucker, Susan, A Solitary Soul: The Life of Kate Peterson, Jackie, Letter to an Ex-Lover (Poetry), (Resources and Reviews), February 80 Chopin (Bedside Table), March i04 February 51 Simmons, Eileen A., Still Crazy After All These Turner, Ken, The Elements of Love (Poetry), April Petruzzella, Brenda Arnett, Grammar Instruction: Years, September 70 42 What Teachers Say, November 68 Skretta, John A., Why Debates about Teaching Gram- Turner, Ken, The Last We Heard (Poetry), April 39 Pierce, Carol J., Dairy Farm Tragedy (Bedside mar and Usage “Tweak” Me Out, November 64 van Allen, Lanny, Visualize Vertical Connected- Table), September 109 Sledd, James, Grammar for Social Awareness in ness (Middle Ground), March 94 Plaut, Suzanne, Centuries Away, April 56 Time of Class Warfare, November 59 Van Zant, Frank, Two by Frank Van Zant: Prain, Vaughan, Should Teachers of Writing Write Smith, Carole L., Smith's Twelve Maxims for Sur- Generation X Philosophizes on a Moral Im- Themselves?: An Australian Contribution to vival in Teaching, September 72 perative; The School Administrator (Poetry), the Debate, October 42 Sones, Barbara, “Lessons Spaced by Heartbeats”: December 58 Purser, Diana, Grammar in a Nutshell, November Performance Poetry in a Ninth-Grade Class- Vavra, Ed, On Not Teaching Grammar, November 108 room, December 60 32 Quattrini, Joseph A., Hearing Voices: Colleagues Sperling, Melanie, Revealing the Teacher-as- Wahlberg, Barbara A., Blasting into the Unknown in the Classroom, October 62 Reader in Response to Students’ Writing, Jan- (Bedside Table), March 105 Queenan, Margaret Lally, Whole Language Is Not uary 22 Wahlberg, Barbara, To Grandmother's House We a Room Arrangement, It's a Controversy, Feb- Spiro, Marion R., About Teaching: Just Teach Me, Go, April 59 ruary 26 Mrs. K. (Resources and Reviews), April 73 Weaver, Constance, Teaching Grammar in the Queenan, Margaret, On Going In and Out of Stafford, Kim R., Natural History at the NCTE Context of Writing, November 15 Closets, April 57 Annual Convention Orlando, 1994 (Poetry), Webb, C. Anne, This World of English, January Raines, Peggy A., Writing Portfolios: Turning the April 22 96, February 94, March 107, April 89 House into a Home, January 41 Starner, Jane, Surviving the Challenge with Joy, Weems, Mary E., “Lessons Spaced by Heartbe?'s”: Ransdell, D. R., Articulation and Student Voices: September 51 Performance Poetry in a Ninth-Grade Class- Eliminating the Perception that “High School Steiner, Joan N., From the Secondary Section, room, December 60 English Doesn't Teach You Nothing,” January January 14 Weinheimer, Rose, Six Mileposts Along the High- 17 Stetson, Maura, Freedom of Voice, October 74 way to Successful Teaching, September 65 Redfern, Richard K., Pronouns Are Highly Per- Stopper, Raymond, Standards No: Let's Rewrite West, Clarissa N., Essays with an Attitude (Bed- sonal, November 80 NCTE/IRA Standards in Plain English (One side Table), January 93 Reins, Keith M., A Target on the Blackboard, Sep- Person's Opinion), September 15 Westerfield, Nancy G., Two by Nancy G. Wester- tember 19 Stotsky, Sandra, Is the Holocaust the Chief Cor- field: Alumnae; Emeritus (Poetry), March 61 Reissman, Rose, Pop-Up Portfolio Research tribution of the Jewish Peopie to World Civi- Whishaw, Iona, Triptych in Chapultepec Park, (Teaching Ideas), January 77 lization and History?: A Survey of Leading Lit- Mexico City (Poetry), April 41 Reissman, Rose, Writer/Author Q & A—Technol- erature Anthologies and Reading Instructional Wiggins, Sarah J., Teachers for the Dream (Rain- ogy Takes the Published Interview to the Next Textbooks, February 52 bow Teachers/Rainbow Students), February Generation of Reader Response (Teaching Stover, Lois, A New Year's Resolution: Breaking 72 Ideas), February 78 Boundaries (Young Adult Literature), January Willocks, Stephanie D., Our Classrooms and Reynolds, Marilyn, Youthful Recklessness, Janu- 86 Chaucers Canierbury Tales: How to Make ary 69 Straughan, June, Romeo and Juliet and the ESL Them Work Together (Teaching Ideas), No- Robbins, Bruce, Growing into Leadership: Profiles Classroom, December 52 vember 122 from a “Good” Department, September 34 Strickland, James, 1 Do Whole Language on Fri- Wilson, Linda J., Using the World Wide Web in Rodabaugh, Wendy L., Teaching Gothic Litera- days, February 17 English Classrooms (Software), October 118 ture in the Junior High Classroom, March 68 Strickland, Kathleen, | Do Whole Language on Wyngaard, Sandra, Responding to Audience: Romano, Tom, Seeking the Best in the Teaching of Fridays, February 17 Using Rubrics to Teach and Assess Writing, Writing (Resources and Reviews), October 108 Suhor, Charles, The Jazz and Poetry Connection: October 67 Rosaen, Cheryl L., Teachers Yesterday, Today, and A Performance Guide for Teachers and Stu- Yoder, Rhoda Byler, Of Fake Verbs and Kid Tomorrow: Learners Forever, September 40 dents, September 80 Words: Developing a Useful Grammar, No- Rose, Carol A., The Great Debate: Teaching Gram- Szentkiralyi, Endre, Research Papers and Their vember 82 mar and Usage, November 96 Pitfalls (Teaching Ideas), January 74 Young, Martha W, English (as a Second) Lan- Ross, Carolyn Tuten, The I, Il, Ills of Outlining, Tanguay, Matt, lights on, nobody home (Poetry), guage Arts Teachers: The Key to Main- January 67 February 25 streamed ESL Student Success, December 17 Ross, Carolyn Tuten, Grammar, According to Stu- Taylor, Monica, Valuing Cultural Diversity (New Zirinsky, Driek, Why the Woman Who Loved dents and Teacher, November 74 Teachers), December 87 Shoes Loved Shoes (Poetry), April 40 Scarborough, Harriet Arzu, Discovering Carib- Tchudi, Stephen, Taking the G-r-1-r Out of Gram- Zirinsky, Driek, Growing into Leadership: Profiles bean Literature, Discovering Self (Rainbow mar, November 46 from a “Good” Department, September 34 Teachers/Rainbow Students), March 82 Teasley, Alan B., Dealing Effectively with Student Zuidema, Leah A., The Vocabulary of English Scarborough, Harriet Arzu, Sustaining a Life of Behavior (New Teachers), April 80 Punctuation (Coming To Terms), November Teaching, September 68 135 SUBJECT INDEX Arts/Humanities (Cartoon), Bob Gassen, April 18, September 29, (Photograph), Joan Hennessey, September 12 October 83, November 12, 54 November 45 Abandoned Cafe, New Mexico (Photograph), (Cartoon), Ellen Hall, April 12, October 15 (Photograph), Lee Brauer, April 22 Gerald P. ThurmondJ,r ., April 45 (Cartoon), Tim Lunt, January 73 (Photograph), Bill Leece, January 13, March 19, (Art), Cindy Cotner, September 62 (Cartoon), jeff Metcalf, January 73 October 16, 113, November 114, 129 (Cartoon), Dennis Baron, January 66, September 10 (Cartoon), Clair Schulz, November 136, Decem- (Photograph), Glenda Thompson, November (Cartoon), Anne Dachel, March 95 ber 12 14 English Journal 113 Pigeon, Parc Dauphin, Paris (Photograph), Toward a Whole Partnership, Alan Bone and Relating School and Life through Cinderella (Mid- Ronald Mikulak, April cover, 37 Sarah Busekist, February 35 die Ground), Mary Mercer Krogness, Septem- What IS Grammar? (Game), Fern Klopp Buck- Using New Novels without Being Overwhelmed ber 101 num, November 73 (Teaching Ideas), Diana Mitchell, March 85 Teaching Gothic Literature in the Junior High Using the World Wide Web in English Classrooms Classroom, Wendy L. Rodabaugh, March 68 Curriculum/Classroom Activities (Software), LindaJ .W ilson, October 118 Visualize Vertical Connectedness (Middle Ground), Viewing Film and Television as Whole Language Lanny van Allen, March 94 About Teaching: Just Teach Me, Mrs. K. (Resources Instruction, Richard H. Fehlman, February 43 and Reviews), Marion R. Spiro, April 73 Visualize Vertical Connectedness (Middle Ground), Language/Linguistics All You Need Is Love: Using Shakespeare to Build Lanny van Allen, March 94 Community, Karen Marcus, March 58 What is a “Regular” English Classroom? Language Vocabulary Study: An Active Learning Process Approaching Race and Gender Issues in the Con- and Cultural Diversity in Todays Schools, (Global Issues), Zhao Shitai, February 83 text of the Language Arts Classroom (Teaching Lenora Cook, December 49 Ideas), Diana Mitchell, December 77 Whole Language Is Not a Room Arrangement; Its Literature Censorship Crisis, The (Resources and Reviews), a Controversy, Margaret Lally Queenan, Feb- Bonnie Ericson, January 79 ruary 26 All You Need Is Love: Using Shakespeare to Build Changing the Rules (Teaching Ideas), Cindy Wilder Approach to Teaching Wilder, A (Teaching Community, Karen Marcus, March 58 Gagliardi, March 86 Ideas), Tracy Anderson Tensen, November 119 Beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls (Bedside Tabie), Computer-Assisted Language Arts Instruction for Writing Across the Community (Resources and Rosemary Laughlin, November 137 the ESL Learner, Jacquelyn A. Cassidy, De- Reviews), R. Baird Shuman, February 80 Blasting into the Unknown (Bedside Table), Bar- cember 55 Writing to Learn Across the Curriculum and the bara A. Wahlberg, March 105 Connecting with Our Future Selves (Teaching English Teacher (Teaching Ideas), Diana Can You Go Home Again? (Bedside Table), Leslie Ideas), A. Maria Lancianese, April 71 Mitchell, Septernber 93 Oster, April 88 Deborah Tannen Comes to Class: Implications of Canadian Trio (Bedside Table), Ellen Jaffe Mc- Gender and Conversation in the Classroom Grammar and Usage Clain, December 96 (One Person's Opinion), Colleen Armstrong, Changing the Rules (Teaching Ideas), Cindy February 15 Bundrens, Faulkner, and Grammar, Stephen B. Gagliardi, March 86 Developing Student Ownership in the “Real Heller, November 75 Dairy Farm Tragedy (Bedside Table), Carol J. World,” Sherri Peckman, February 60 Correct Grammar So Essential to Effective Writing Pierce, September 109 English Is Like Any Other Sport (One Persons Can Be Taught— Really!, Alvin R. Brown, No- Dimensions of Failure in Reader Response, Susan Opinion). Robert C. Harvey, January 15 vember 98 Henneberg, March 21 Hearing Voices: Colleagues in the Classroom, Grammar, According to Students and Teacher, Discovering Caribbean Literature, Discovering Joseph A. Quattrini, October 62 Carolyn Tuten Ross, November 74 Self (Rainbow Teachers/Rainvow Students), Heart, Ginnah Howard, February 67 Grammar for Social Awareness in Time of Class Harriet Arzu Scarborough, March 82 History of Teaching English as a Second Lan- Warfare, James Sledd, November 59 Down in the Dumps (Bedside Table), Kathryn H. guage, M. P. Cavanaugh, December 40 Grammar in a Nutshell, Diana Purser, November Kelly, January 94 1 Do Whole Language on Fridays, Kathleen 108 E-mail Dialogues, The (Bedside Table), Carol Jago Strickland and James Strickland, February 17 Grammar Instruction: What Teachers Say, Brenda and Michael Moore, December 97 | Was a Whole Language Teacher Before | Had a Arnett Petruzzella, November 68 End of Exploring, The (Bedside Table), Randall Name, Dael Angelico-Hart, February 32 Great Debate: Teaching Grammar and Usage, The, Heeres, September 108 Is the Holocaust the Chief Contribution of the Carol A. Rose, November 96 Essays with an Attitude (Bedside Table), Clarissa Jewish People to World Civilization and His- Never Say Never: Teaching Grammar and Usage, N. West, January 93 tory?: A Survey of Leading Literature Antholo- Peter Brodie, November 77 From Butterflies to Bigfuot (Bedside Table), james gies and Reading Instructional Textbooks, New Grammar That Has Clearly Improved Writ- LeMonds, October 122 Sandra Stotsky, February 52 ing, A, Anthony D. Hunter, November 102 “Give Us Howling and Naked Savagery”: jack Learning to Teach through Inquiry (New Teach- Of Fake Verbs and Kid Words: Developing a London and The Call of the Wild (Resources ers), Dana L. Fox, October 114 Useful Grammar, Rhoda Byler Yoder, No- and Reviews), Susan M. Nuernberg, Septem- Mob Rule and the Teaching of Literature (One vember 82 ber 98 Person’ Opinion), Peter Adam Nash, April 16 On Not Teaching Grammar, Ed Vavra, November In Need of Motivation and Inspiration (Bedside New Look at Nonfiction in the Classroom, A 32 Table), Teresa Powell Pearcy, February 91 (Teaching Ideas), Diana Mitchell, February 74 Pronouns Are Highly Personal, Richard K. Red- Journey to Recovery, A (Bedside Table), Diane Old Dog/New Tricks: Reteaching Huck Finn and fern, November 80 Lockward, February 90 Pop Culture (Teaching Ideas), Elisabeth Haley, Rhetorical Grammar: A Modification Lesson, “Lessons Spaced by Heartbeats”: Performance Po- November 121 Martha Kolln, November 25 etry in a Ninth-Grade Classroom, Ted Lard- Our Classrooms and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Role of Generalization in Studying Grammar and ner, Barbara Sones, and Mary E. Weems, De- How to Make Them Work Together (Teaching Usage, The, Bill Gribbin, November 55 cember 60 Ideas), Stephanie D. Willocks, November 122 Taking the G-r-r-r Out of Grammar, Stephen Lion King and Hamlet: A Homecoming for the Ex- Potato Barrels, Animal Traps, Birth Control, and Tchudi and Lee Thomas, November 46 iled Child, The, Rosemarie Gavin, March 55 Unicorns: Re-Visioning Teaching and Learning Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing, Listening to Beach Music (Bedside Table), Came- in English Classes, Janet S. Allen, February 38 Constance Weaver, November 15 ron E. Christian, December 98 Research Experiment in Parent/Teen Communica- Watch Your Language: Teaching Standard Usage Literary Mystery, A (Bedside Table), Chris Hen- tion, A, Peggy Epstein, February 64 to Resistant and Reluctant Learners, Mark Lar- derson, November 138 Romeo and Juliet and the ESL Classroom, June son, November 9i McMillan Arrives (Bedside Table), Donnella Straughan, December 52 What English Teachers Need to Know about Canty, April 86 Scaring Up Some Unity: Bilingual Halloween Sto- Grammar, William Murdick, November 38 Minnesota Farm Family (Bedside Table), Krista L. ries in the ESL Classroom, Lynn Kameny, De- What Part of Speech Is O. J. Simpson?: Teaching Finstad Hanson, October 121 cember 45 Grammar and Style through the News, Sharon Newfoundland Knots (Bedside Table), Jill An- Springtime Sanity Savers (Teaching Ideas), Diana Kane, November 88 thony, January 94 Mitchell, April 67 Why Debates About Teaching Grammar and Old Dog/New Tricks: Reteaching Huck Finn and Standards No: Let's Rewrite NCTE/RA Standards Usage “Tweak” Me Out, John A. Skretta, No- Pop Culture (Teaching Ideas), Elisabeth Haley, in Plain English, Raymond Stopper (One Per- vember 64 November 121 son's Opinion), September 15 Our Ciassrooms and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Standards Yes: Lets Use the NCTE/IRA Standards Junior High/Middle School How to Make Them Work Together, Stephanie in Our Classrooms and Communities (One D. Wiliocks, November 122 Person’ Opinion), Beverly Ann Chin, Sep- Censorship and Imagination (Middle Ground), Pioneer Simulation for Writing and for the Study tember 14 Mary Mercer Krogness, November 127 of Literature, A, Thomas M. McCann, March Teaching All Ages of At-Risk Students: Making Inducting an Eighth Grader into the Literacy 62 Connections (Resources and Reviews), Bonnie Club, Patricia L. Daniel, March 32 Places We Live and Love, The (Bedside Table), Ericson, April 75 Crag Hill, March 103 114 December 1996 Producing Student Filrns: Shakespeare on Screen, Media/Technology Trading Places: A Yank-Brit Swap (Global Issues), Mark Franek, March 50 Harvey Fenigsohn, October 111 Proper Question, The (Bedside Table), Kurt Computer-Assisted Language Arts Instruction for Valuing Cultural Diversity (New Teachers), Dana Caswell, October 123 the ESL Learner, Jacquelyn A. Cassidy, De- L. Fox and Monica Taylor, December 88 Re-reading a Classic (Bedside Table), Alyce cember 55 When Acceptance Isn't Enough: Helping ESL Stu- Hunter, September 110 English Teachers Internet Resource Guide, The dents Become Successful Writers, Pamela Sissi Romeo and Juliet and the ESL Classroom, June (Software), Mary Tyler Knowles, December 92 Carroll, Frances Biake, Rose Ann Camalo, and Straughan, December 52 Lion King and Hamlet: A Homecoming for the Ex- Smadar Messer, December 25 Solitary Soul: The Life of Kate Chopin, A (Bedside iled Child, The, Rosemarie Gavin, March 55 Witches, Ghosts, and Other Apparitions (Rain- Table), Susan Tucker, March 104 MACBETH (The Voyager Shakespeare) (Software), bow Teachers/Rainbow Students), MaryCar- Teaching Gothic Literature in the Junior High Kenneth C. Holvig, April 85 men Cruz and Ogle Burks Duff, October 100 Classroom, Wendy L. Rodabaugh, March 68 Producing Student Films: Shakespeare on Screen, Top Ten, The (Bedside Table), Fred Cheney, Feb- Mark Franek, March 50 Poetry ruary 92 Using the World Wide Web in English Classrooms Trio of Tales (Bedside Table), William E. Mc- (Software), Linda J. Wilson, October 118 Adam Earth (Poetry), Richard Hague, April 41 Sweeney, April 87 Viewing Film and Television as Whole Language Elements of Love, The (Poetry), Ken Turner, April Using New Novels without Being Overwhelmed Instruction, Richard H. Fehlman, February 43 42 (Teaching Ideas), Diana Mitchell, March 85 What Part of Speech Is O. J. Simpson?: Teaching Fish Guts on the Windshield (Poetry), Stanley Grammar and Style through the News, Sharon Trapp, April 43 Literature, Adolescent Kane, November 88 Golden (Poetry), Michael L. Newell, December 65 You Want Cyber WHAT? A Timid Schoolteacher’s Grandpa (Poetry), Barbara Byrnes, March 54 Enhancing Your Writing through the Masters or Guide to Technology and the Internet (Soft- Last We Heard, The (Poetry), Ken Turner, April 39 What Makes a Good Work Good (Young Adult ware), Diane B. Morrison, February 87 Letter to an Ex-Lover (Poetry), Jackie Peterson, LiteratureJ)o,a n F Kaywell, September 104 February 5) Healing Vision, A, Terry Davis, March 36 Multicultural/International lights on, nobody home (Poetry), Matt Tanguay, New Years Resolution: Breaking Boundaries, A Issues February 25 (Young Adult Literature), Lois Stover, January Mary; Polyphemus Revisited (Poetry), Sallie 86 Africa: Yonondio, jane Bendetson, September 57 Hughes Scott, January 40 1995 Honor Listing: Can Less Be More? (Young Continuing the Legacy (Rainbow Teachers/Rain- Natural History at the NCTE Annual Convention Adult Literature), Alleen Pace Nilsen and Ken- bow Students), MaryCarmen Cruz and Ogle Orlando, 1994 (Poetry), Kim R. Stafford, neth L. Donelson, November 130 Burks Duff, September 88 April 22 On the Breath of a Cloud (Young Adult Literature), Conversations in Heidelberg (Global Issues), Pa- On Opening a Box of Crayola Crayons; After Kylene Beers and Teri Lesesne, March 96 tricia P. Kelly, December 85 Reading Old Crickei’s Poems the Chinese Poet Developing Student Ownership in the “Real Takes Up His Walking Stick and Goes Out to Literature, Criticism World,” Sherri Peckman, February 60 Meditate on an Appropriate Response (Po- Discovering Caribbean Literature, Discovering etry), Jeff Daniel Marion, January 68 Demystifying the Text: Literary Criticism in the Self (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students), Rain Shadow (Poetry), Dan Holt, April 40 High School Classroom, Lisa Schade, March 26 Harriet Arzu Scarborough, March 82 Teacher: (Poetry), Myron Dearden, March 49 Exploring Charles M. Russell and Others through English (as a Second) Language Arts Teachers: Telephone List (Poetry), Rosemary Laughlin, Biography, Michele Keating, December 66 The Key to Mainstreamed ESL Student Suc- April 43 cess, Martha W. Young, December 17 Tinfoi! (Poetry), Deborah A. Hoff, April 44 Expository Writing Patterns of African American Transferring Names into a New Address Book (Po- Literature, Fiction Students, Arnetha F Ball, January 27 etry), Stan Brown, October 84 House and Body, Karen Downing, April 32 Final Column, A (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Triptych in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City (Po- I'll Be Fine, Sylvia Garland, April 28 Students), Charlotte K. Brooks, April 65 etry), lona Whishaw, April 41 Patron Saint of Membership, The, Cathy Belben, History of Teaching English as a Second Lan- Two by Frank Van Zant: Generation X Philoso- April 23 guage, M. P Cavanaugh, December 40 phizes on a Moral Imperative; The Schoo! Ad- Relating School and Life through Cinderella (Mid- Is the Holocaust the Chief Contribution of the ministrator (Poetry), Frank Van Zant, Decem- dle Ground), Mary Mercer Krogness, Septem- Jewish People to World Civilization and His- ber 58 ber 101 tory?: A Survey of Leading Literature Anthoio- Two by Gena Lengel: The “Y”; Winter, with My Serious Repercussions, Cathy Belben, April 34 gies and Reading Instructional Textbooks, Son (Poetry), Gena Lengel, February 31 Sandra Stotsky, February 52 Two by Jerome McGovern: Adirondack; Blood Literature, Nonfiction Japan: Learning English and Learning about Eng- (Poetry), Jerome McGovern, September 86 lish (Global Issues), Rory S. Baskin, February Two by Nancy G. Westerfield: Alumnae; Emeritus Braver Thing: On Planning My Mother’ Funeral, 82 (Poetry), Nancy G. Westerfield, March 61 A, Marguerite McGlinn, April 54 Learning through Project Wonder (Rainbow Two by Russ Kesler: Habanero; Jonah, Later (Po- Centuries Away, Suzanne Plaut, April 56 Teachers/Rainbow Students), Charlotte K. etry), Russ Kesler, September 61 Living with a Greyhound, Fred Barton, April 49 Brooks, January 72 Ward 2 North (Poetry), Natalie Hryciuk, April 38 On Going In and Out of Closets, Margaret Letter to Teachers of Literature, A (Rainbow Why the Woman Who Loved Shoes Loved Shoes Queenan, April 57 Teachers/Rainbow Students), Charlotte K. (Poetry), Driek Zirinsky, April 40 Save, Tim Gillespie, April 53 Brooks, March 82 Yellow Field (Poetry), James Backstrom, April 42 To Grandmothers House We Go, Barbara Magic Theater: Unlocking the Worlds of Foreign Wahlberg, April 59 Students (One Person’ Opinion), Donna M. The Profession We Shall Overcome, Hal Crowther, April 21 Brown, December 13 Yearbook Signing Day, Chris Dempsey, April 46 New Worlds, Old Wisdom (Rainbow Teachers/ About Teaching: Just Teach Me, Mrs. K. (Resources Rainbow Students), MaryCarmen Cruz and and Reviews), Marion R. Spiro, April 73 Literature, Poetry Ogle Burks Duff, Novermber 116 Africa: Yonondio, Jane Bendetson, September 57 Other Peoples’ Children, Trevor Owen, December Blinded by the Light (One Person's Opinion), An- Jazz and Poetry Connection: A Performance 34 drea Fishman, November 13 Guide for Teachers and Students, The, Jamie Scaring Up Some Unity: Bilingual Halloween Sto- Burnout and Renewal, Lorraine A. Bedy, Septem- Hutchinson and Charles Suhor, September 80 ries in the ESL Classroom, Lynn Kameny, De- ber 64 “Lessons Spaced by Heartbeats”: Performance Po- cember 45 Censorship Crisis, The (Resources and Reviews), etry in a Ninth-Grade Classroom, Ted Lard- School Achievement from One Asian American Bonnie Ericson, January 79 ner, Barbara Sones, and Mary E. Weems, De- Perspective, Stanford T. Goto, September 74 Continuing the Legacy (Rainbow Teachers/Rain- cember 60 Teachers for the Dream (Rainbow Teachers/Rain- bow Students), MaryCarmen Cruz and Ogle Poems and Paintings: Shades of the Prison House, bow Students), Sarah J. Wiggins, February 72 Burks Duff, September 88 William Greenway, March 42 Teaching Poetry: Dehydrated Food for the Soul Dealing Effectively with Student Behavior (New Poetry Browsing: You Can't Explicate "Em All (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students), Mary- Teachers), Alan B. Teasley, April 80 (Middle Ground), David S. Burk, January 82 Carmen Cruz and Ogle Burks Duif, December Dora V. Smith: Echoes of a Strong Voice in English 72 Education, Linda M. Pavonetti, October 89 English Journal 115 Enjoying Autumn, Brenda Crews, September 64 Thou Shalt Not Grow Stale—Four Command- Pioneer Simuiation for Writing and for the Study From the Editor, Leila Christenbury, January 12, ments for Veteran Teachers, Patricia J. Crist, of Literature, A, Thomas M. McCann, March February 13, March 13, April 13, September September 54 62 11, October 13, November 11, December 11 Trading Places: A Yank-Brit Swap (Global Issues), Plagiarism (Coming To Terms), Darsie Bowden, From the Secondary Section, Joan N. Steiner, Jan- Harvey Fenigsohn, October 111 April 82 uary 14 Tribute, Kathy A. Megyeri, September 24 Process Writing and the Secondary School Reality: Growing into Leadership: Profiles from a “Good” Twenty-Year Veteran Prepares to Leave the Rickety A Compromise, Barbara Carney, October 28 Department, Bruce Robbins and Driek Zirin- Structures of Public Education, A, Barbara Jo Reading Aloud Student Writing, Kathy A. Megy- sky, September 34 Maier, September 45 eri, March 74 Having MY Say, Margaret C. Hamlin. September 66 Vaiuing Cultural Diversity (New Teachers), Dana Responding to Audience: Using Rubrics to Teach In Memoriam Dwight Lowell Burton, 1922- L. Fox and Monica Taylor, December 87 and Assess Writing, Sandra Wyngaard and 1995, Roy C. O'Donnell, April 14 Vocabulary of English Punctuation, The (Coming Rachel Gehrke, October 67 Intermediate Possibilities: The Language of Re- To Terms), Leah A. Zuidema, November 135 Revealing the Teacher-as-Reader in Response to form and Dewey's Experience and Education, When a Picture May Be Worth a Thousand Words Students’ Writing, Melanie Sperling, january Mark A. Faust, October 94 (One Person’s Opinion), Ann Hassenpflug, 22 Is There a Doctor of Rhetoric in the House? (One March 17 Should Teachers of Writing Write Themselves?: Person’ Opinion), Gordon Carlson, October 16 Worlds Elsewhere’ NEH Summers and Long Dis- An Australian Contribution to the Debate, Judges, The (Literary Festival), Leila Christen- tance Runners, Eleanor Heginbotham, Sep- Anne Gleeson and Vaughan Prain, October 42 bury, April 19 tember 48 Strategic Instruction for Struggling Writers, Kath Learning to Teach through Inquiry (New Teach- Writing to Learn Across the Curriculum and the leen M. Collins and James L. Collins, October ers), Dana L. Fox, October 114 English Teacher (Teaching Ideas), Diana 54 Letter to Teachers of Literature, A (Rainbow Mitchell, September 93 Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing, Teachers/Rainbow Students), Charlotte K. Constance Weaver, November 15 Brooks, March 82 Reading/Literacy Teaching Writing in the 1990s, Tina Gordon, Oc- Picture This: Reflections of a Veteran Teacher, Arti tober 37 Mader, September 31 Dimensions of Failure in Reader Response, Susan Throw Away That Correcting Pen, Virginia R. La- Plagiarism (Coming To Terms), Darsie Bowden, Henneberg, March 21 Fontana, October 71 April 82 Inducting an Eighth Grader into the Literacy What Do Parents Mean When They Talk about Club, Patricia L. Daniel, March 32 Writing “Basics” and What Should English Pluralism (Coming To Terms), Bill Bolin, March 101 Reconstructing Language and Learning for the Love of Reading, A (Resources and Reviews), Teachers Do about It?, Anne Wescott Dodd, 21st Century: The NCTE International Con- Donald R. Gallo, November 125 January 58 ference and the International Federation of Other Recent Books on Reading (Resources and Writers’ Room: The Story of a Writing Center, Teachers of English Conference, IFTE #6 Reviews), Bonnie Ericson, November 125 The, Ellen D. Kolba and Sheila C. Crowell, (Global Issues), Nancy McCracken, April 76 Reading Aloud Student Writing, Kathy A. Megy- October 50 Revitalization of the Long Distance Runner, The, eri, March 74 Writing Across the Ages: A Working Writer's Carol M. Conway, September 71 Revealing the Teacher-as-Reader in Response to Workshop, Bonnie M. Davis, January 37 Should Teachers of Writing Write Themselves?: Students’ Writing, Melanie Sperling, January Writing and Teaching (Resources and Reviews), An Australian Contribution to the Debate, 22 Carole Beeghly Bencich, March 91 Anne Gleeson and Vaughan Prain, October 42 Writer/Author Q & A—Technology Takes the Writing Portfolios: Turning the House into a Six Mileposts Along the Highway to Successful Published Interview to the Next Generation of Home, Peggy A. Raines, January 41 Reader Response (Teaching Ideas), Rose Reiss- Writing—The Semantics of a Loaded Word, john Teaching, Rose Weinheimer, September 65 Smiths Twelve Maxims for Survival in Teaching, man, February 78 Colgan, October 23 Youthful Recklessness, Marilyn Reynolds, January Carole “. Smith, September 72 Social Constructivism (Coming To Terms), Jean- Research 69 nine Si. Pierre Hirtle, january 91 School Achievement from One Asian American Writing, Imaginative Standards Yes: Let's Use the NCTE/IRA Standards Perspective, Stanford T. Goto, September 74 in Our Classrooms and Communities (One Autobiography: A Course That Never Fails, Persons Opinion), Beverly Ann Chin, Sep- Testing/Assessment Miriam C. Dow, October 85 tember 14 identity Paper: Parents Join with Students to Standards No: Let's Rewrite NCTE/IRA Standards Responding to Audience: Using Rubrics to Teach Write Family History, The, Tchaiko Ruramai in Plain English, Raymond Stopper (One Per- and Assess Writing, Sandra Wyngaard and Kwayana, January 62 son’ Opinion), September 15 Rachel Gehrke, October 67 “If | Could Carve My Face”—Inspiring the Cre- Still Crazy After All These Years, Eileen A. Sim- Throw Away That Correcting Pen, Virginia R. La- ative Writing Process (Teaching Ideas), Joy mons, September 70 Fontana, October 71 Campbell, October 106 Surviving a Career in Public Education, Richard Jazz and Poetry Connection: A Performance Argys, September 63 Writing Guide for Teachers and Students, The, Jamie Surviving the Challenge with Joy, Jane Starner, Hutchinson and Charles Suhor, September 80 September 51 Articulation and Student Voices: Eliminating the Novella Idea: A Student’ First Novel, A, Braden Sustaining a Life of Teaching, Harriet Arzu Scar- Perception that “High School English Doesn't Lindstrom, October 79 borough, September 68 Teach You Nothing,” D. R. Ransdell and Gre- Writing from the Limbic Brain: A (Perhaps) Foo!l- Target on the Blackboard, A, Keith M. Reins, Sep- gory R. Glau, january 17 proof Way to Generate Student Poetry (Teach- tember 19 Bird by Bird (Teaching Ideas), Carol Jago, October ing Ideas), George Perreault, October 103 Teachers for the Dream (Rainbow Teachers/Rain- 104 bow Students), SarahJ .W iggins, February 72 Expository Writing Patterns of African American Writing, Research Teachers Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Learn- Students, Arnetha F Ball, January 27 ers Forever, Laura Schiller, Anne Ruggles Freedom of Voice, Maura Stetson, October 74 Enhancing Your Writing through the Masters or Gere, and Cheryl L. Rosaen, September 40 Hearing Voices: Colleagues in the Classroom, What Makes a Good Work Good (Young Teaching Adolescent Girls (Resources and Re- Joseph A. Quattrini, October 62 Adult Literature), joan F Kaywell, September views), Lynne B. Alvine, December 82 “I Think | Know What My Teachers Want Now”: 104 Teaching All Ages of At-Risk Students: Making Gender and Writing Motivation, Linda Miller Pop-Up Portfolio Research (Teaching Ideas), Rose Connections (Resources and Reviews), Bonnie Cleary, January 50 Reissman, January 77 Ericson, April 75 Is There a Doctor of Rhetoric in the House? (One Research Experiment in Parent/Teen Cornmunica- Things College Never Taught Me (New Teachers), Person’ Opinion), Gordon Carlson, October 16 tion, A, Peggy Epstein, February 64 Meredith Paschke, February 85 Narrating the Portfolio Landscape, Rebecca Luce- Research Papers and Their Pitfalls (Teaching This World of English, C. Anne Webb, January Kapler, January 46 Ideas), Endre Szentkiralyi, January 74 96, February 94, March 107, April 89 I, Il, Ils of Outlining, The, Carolyn Tuten Ross, Seeking the Best in the Teaching of Writing (Re- This World of English, Daniel A. Heller, Septem- January 67 sources and Reviews), Tom Romano, October ber 111, October 125, November 139, De- Passion and Craft in Writing: Finding a Balance, 108 cember 99 John A. lanacone, October 17 116 December 1996 TITLE INDEX Abandoned Cafe, New Mexico (Photograph), (One Person’ Opinion), Colleen Armstrong, History of Teaching English as a Second Lan- Gerald P. Thurmond, Jr., April 45 February 15 guage, M. P. Cavanaugh, December 40 About Teaching: Just Teach Me, Mrs. K. (Resources Demystifying the Text: Literary Criticism in the House and Body, Karen Downing, April 32 and Reviews), Marion R. Spiro, April 73 High School Classroom, Lisa Schade, March 1 Do Whole Language on Fridays, Kathleen Adam Earth (Poetry), Richard Hague, April 41 26 Strickland and James Strickland, February 17 Africa: Yonendio, Jane Bendetson, September 57 Developing Student Ownership in the “Real “I Think | Know What My Teachers Want Now”: After Reading Old Crickets Poems the Chinese World,” Sherri Peckman, February 60 Gender and Writing Motivation, Linda Miller Poet Takes Up His Walking Stick and Goes Dimensions of Failure in Reader Response, Susan Cleary, January 50 Out to Meditate on an Appropriate Response Henneberg, March 21 1 Was a Whole Language Teacher Before | Had a (Poetry), Jeff Daniel Marion, January 68 Discovering Caribbean Literature, Discovering Name, Dael Angelico-Hart, February 32 All You Need Is Love: Using Shakespeare to Build Self (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students), I'll Be Fine, Sylvia Garland, April 28 Community, Karen Marcus, March 58 Harriet Arzu Scarborough, March 82 Identity Paper. Parents Join with Students to Approaching Race and Gender Issues in the Con- Dora V. Smith: Echoes of a Strong Voice in English Write Family History, The, Tchaiko Ruramai text of the Language Arts Classroom (Teaching Education, Linda M. Pavonetti, October 89 Kwayana, January 62 Ideas), Diana Mitchell, December 77 Down in the Dumps (Bedside Table), Kathryn H. “If 1 Could Carve My Face”--Inspiring the Cre- (Art), Cindy Cotner, September 62 Kelly, January 94 ative Writing Process (Teaching Ideas), Joy Articulation and Student Voices: Eliminating the Elements of Love, The (Poetry), Ken Turner, April Campbeil, October 106 Perception that “High School English Doesn't 42 In Need of Motivation and Inspiration (Bedside Teach You Nothing,” D. R. Ransdeil and Gre- E-mail Dialogues, The (Bedside Table), Carol Jago Table), Teresa Powell Pearcy, February 91 gory R. Glau, January 17 and Michael Moore, December 97 In Memoriam Dwight Lowell Burton, 1922-1995, Autobiography: A Course That Never Fails, End of Exploring, The (Bedside Table), Randall Roy C. O'Donnell, April 14 Miriam C. Dow, October 85 Heeres, September 108 Inducting an Eighth Grader into the Literacy Beyond the Dead Sea Scrolls (Bedside Table), English (as a Second) Language Arts Teachers: Club, Patricia L. Daniel, March 32 Rosemary Laughlin, November The Key to Mainstreamed ESL Student Suc- Intermediate Possibilities: The Language of Re- Bird by Bird (Teaching Ideas), Carol Jago, October cess, Martha W. Young, December 17 form and Dewey's Experience and Education, 104 English Is Like Any Other Sport (One Person's Mark A. Faust, October 94 Blasting into the Unknown (Bedside Table), Bar- Opinion), Robert C. Harvey, January 15 Is There a Doctor of Rhetoric in the House? (One bara A. Wahlberg, March 105 English Teacher's Internet Resource Guide, The Person's Opinion), Gordon Carlson, October Blinded by the Light (One Person's Opinion), An- (Software), Mary Tyler Knowles, December 92 16 drea Fishman, November 13 Enhancing Your Writing through the Masters or Is the Holocaust the Chief Contribution of the Braver Thing: On Planning My Mother’ Funeral, What Makes a Good Work Good (Young Jewish People to World Civilization and His- A, Marguerite McGlinn, April 54 Adult LiteratureJ)o,a n F Kaywell, September tory?: A Survey of Leading Literature Antholo- Bundrens, Faulkner, and Grammar, Stephen B. 104 gies and Reading Instructional Textbooks, Heller, November 75 Enjoying Autumn, Brenda Crews, September 64 Sandra Stotsky, February 52 Burnout and Renewal, Lorraine A. Bedy, Septem- Essays with an Attitude (Bedside Table), Clarissa Japan: Learning English and Learning about Eng- ber 64 N. West, January 93 lish (Global Issues), Rory S. Baskin, February Can You Go Home Again? (Bedside Table), Leslie Exploring Charles M. Russell and Others through 82 Oster, April 88 Biography, Michele Keating, December 66 Jazz and Poetry Connection: A Performance Canadian Trio (Bedside Table), Ellen Jaffe Mc- Expository Writing Patterns of African American Guide for Teachers and Students, The, Jamie Clain, December 96 Students, Aretha F Ball, January 27 Hutchinson and Charles Suhor, September 80 (Cartoon), Dennis Baron, January 66, September Final Column, A (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Stu- Journey to Recovery, A (Bedside Table), Diane 10 dents), Charlotte K. Brooks, April 65 Lockward, February 90 (Cartoon), Anne Dachel, March 95 Fish Guts on the Windshield (Poetry), Stanley Judges, The (Literary Festival), Leila Christen- (Cartoon), Bob Gassen, April 18, September 29, Trapp, April 43 bury, April 19 October 83, November 12, 54 Freedom of Voice, Maura Stetson, October 74 Last We Heard, The (Poetry), Ken Turner, April 39 (Cartoon), Ellen Hall, April 12, October 15 From Butterflies to Bigfoot (Bedside Table), James Learning through Project Wonder (Rainbow (Cartoon), Jeff Metcalf, January 73 LeMonds, October 122 Teachers/Rainbow Students), Charlotte K. (Cartoon), Tim Lunt, January 73 From the Editor, Leila Christenbury, January 12, Brooks, January 72 (Cartoon), Clair Schulz, November 136, Decem- February 13, March 13, April 13, September Learning to Teach through Inquiry (New Teach- ber 12 11, October 13, November 11, December 11 ers), Dana L. Fox, October 114 Censorship and Imagination (Middle Ground), From the Secondary Section, Joan N. Steiner, Jjan- “Lessons Spaced by Heartbeats”: Performance Po- Mary Mercer Krogness, November 127 uary 14 etry in a Ninth-Grade Classroom, Ted |ard Censorship Crisis, The (Resources and Reviews), “Give Us Howling and Naked Savagery”: Jack ner, Barbara Sones, and Mary E. Weems, De- Bonnie Ericson, January 79 London and The Call of the Wild (Resources cember 60 Centuries Away, Suzanne Plaut, April 56 and Reviews), Susan M. Nuernberg, Septem- Letter to an Ex-Lover (Poetry), Jackie Peterson, Changing the Rules (Teaching Ideas), Cindy ber 98 February 51 Gagliardi, March 86 Golden (Poetry), Michael L. Newell, December 65 Letter to Teachers of Literature, A (Rainbow Computer-Assisted Language Arts Instruction for Grammar, According to Students and Teacher, Teachers/Rainbow Students), Charlotte K. the ESL Learner, Jacquelyn A. Cassidy, De- Carolyn Tuten Ross, November 74 Brooks, March 82 cember 55 Grammar for Social Awareness in Time of Class lights on, nobody home (Poetry), Matt Tanguay, Connecting with Our Future Selves (Teaching Warfare, Jarmes Sledd, November 59 February 25 Ideas), A. Maria Lancianese, April 71 Grammar in a Nutshell, Diana Purser, November Lion King and Hamlet: A Homecoming for the Ex- Continuing the Legacy (Rainbow Teachers/Rain- 108 iled Child, The, Rosemarie Gavin, Marchi 55 bow Students), MaryCarmen Cruz and Ogle Grammar Instruction: What Teachers Say, Brenda Listening to Beach Music (Bedside Table), Came- Burks Duff, Septemper 88 Arnett Petruzzella, November 68 ron E. Christian, December 98 Conversations in Heidelberg (Global Issues), Pa- Grandpa (Poetry), Barbara Byrnes, March 54 Literary Mystery, A (Bedside Table), Chris Hen- tricia P. Kelly, December 85 Great Debate: Teaching Grammar and Usage, The, derson, November 138 Correct Grammar So Essential to Effective Writing Carol A. Rose, November 96 Living with a Greyhound, Fred Barton, April 49 Can Be Taught— Really!, Alvin R. Brown, No- Growing into Leadership: Profiles from a “Good” Love of Reading, A (Resources and Reviews), vember 98 Department, Bruce Robbins and Driek Zirin- Donald R. Gallo, November 125 Dairy Farm Tragedy (Bedside Table), Carol J. sky, September 34 MACBETH (The Voyager Shakespeare) (Software), Pierce, September 109 Having MY Say, Margaret C. Hamlin, September Kenneth C. Holvig, April 85 Dealing Effectively with Student Behavior (New 66 Magic Theater: Unlocking the Worlds of Foreign Teachers), Alan B. Teasley, April 80 Healing Vision, A, Terry Davis, March 36 Students (One Persons Opinion), Donna M. Deborah Tannen Comes to Class: Implications of Hearing Voices: Colleagues in the Classroom, Brown, December 13 Gender and Conversation in the Classroom Joseph A. Quattrini, October 62 Mary (Poetry), Sallie Hughes Scott, January 40 Heart, Ginnah Howard, February 67 English Journal 117 McMillan Arrives (Bedside Table), Donnella Polyphemus Revisited (Poetry), Sallie Hughes Strategic Instruction for Struggling Writers, Kath- Canty, April 86 Scott, January 40 leen M. Coilins and James L. Collins, October Minnesota Farm Family (Bedside Table), Krista L. Pop-Up Portfolio Research (Teaching Ideas), Rose 54 Finstad Hanson, October 121 Reissman, January 77 Surviving a Career in Public Education, Richard Mob Rule and the Teaching of Literature (One Potato Barrels, Animal Traps, Birth Control, and Argys, September 63 Person's Opinion), Peter Adam Nash, April 16 Unicorns: Re-Visioning Teaching and Learn- Surviving the Challenge with Joy, Jane Starner, Narrating the Portfolio Landscape, Rebecca Luce- ing in English Classes, Janet S. Allen, February September 51 Kapler, January 46 38 Sustaining a Life of Teaching, Harriet Arzu Scar- Natural History at the NCTE Annual Convention Process Writing and the Secondary School Reality: borough, September 68 Orlando, 1994 (Poetry), Kim R. Stafford, A Compromise, Barbara Carney, October 28 Taking the G-r-r-r Out of Grammar, Stephen April 22 Producing Student Films: Shakespeare on Screen, Tchudi and Lee Thomas, November 46 Never Say Never: Teaching Grammar and Usage, Mark Franek, March 50 Target on the Blackboard, A, Keith M. Reins, Sep- Peter Brodie, November 77 Pronouns Are Highly Personal, Richard K. Red- tember 19 New Grammar That Has Clearly Improved Writ- fern, November 80 Teacher: (Poetry), Myron Dearden, March 49 ing, A, Anthony D. Hunter, November 102 Proper Question, The (Bedside Table), Kurt Teachers for the Dream (Rainbow Teachers/Rain- New Look at Nonfiction in the Classroom, A Caswell, October 123 bow Students), SarahJ .W iggins, February 72 (Teaching Ideas), Diana Mitchell, February 74 Rain Shadow (Poetry), Dan Holt, April 40 Teachers Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Learn- New Worlds, Old Wisdom (Rainbow Teachers/ Re-reading a Classic (Bedsicie Table), Alyce ers Forever, Laura Schiller, Anne Ruggles Rainbow Students), MaryCarmen Cruz and Hunter, September 110 Gere, and Cheryl L. Rosaen, September 40 Ogle Burks Duff, November 116 Reading Aloud Student Writing, Kathy A. Megy- Teaching Adolescent Girls (Resources and Re- New Years Resolution: Breaking Boundaries, A eri, March 74 views), Lynne B. Alvine, December 82 (Young Adult Literature), Lois Stover, January Reconstructing Language and Learning for the Teaching All Ages of At-Risk Students: Making 86 21st Century: The NCTE International Con- Connections (Resources and Reviews), Bonnie Newfoundland Knots (Bedside Table), Jill An- ference and the International Federation of Ericson, April 75 thony, January 94 Teachers of English Conference, IFTE #6 Teaching Gothic Literature in the Junior High 1995 Honor Listing: Can Less Be More? (Young (Global Issues), Nancy McCracken, April 76 Classroom, Wendy L. Rodabaugh, March 68 Adult Literature), Alieen Pace Nilsen and Ken- Relating School and Life through Cinderella (Mid- Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing, neth L. Donelson, November 130 dle Ground), Mary Mercer Krogness, Septern- Constance Weaver, November 15 Novella Idea: A Student's First Novel, A, Braden ber 101 Teaching Poetry: Dehydrated Food for the Soul Lindstrom, October 79 Research Experiment in Parent/Teen Communica- (Rainbow Teachers/Rainbow Students), Mary- Of Fake Verbs and Kid Words: Developing a tion, A, Peggy Epstein, February 64 Carmen Cruz and Ogle Burks Duff, December Useful Grammar, Rhoda Byler Yoder, No- Research Papers and Their Pitfalls (Teaching 72 vember 82 Ideas), Endre Szentkiralyi, January 74 Teaching Writing in the 1990s, Tina Gordon, Oc- Old Dog/New Tricks: Reteaching Huck Finn and Responding to Audience: Using Rubrics to Teach tober 37 Pop Culture (Teaching Ideas), Elisabeth Haley, and Assess Writing, Sandra Wyngaard and Telephone List (Poetry), Rosemary Laughlin, November 119 Rachel Gehrke, October 67 Apni 43 On Going In and Out of Closets, Margaret Revealing the Teacher-as-Reader in Response to Things College Never Taught Me (New Teachers), Queenan, April 57 Studerits’ Writing, Melanie Sperling, January Meredith Paschke, February 85 On Opening a Box of Crayola Crayons (Poetry), 22 This World of English, C. Anne Webb, January Jeff Daniel Marion, January 68 Revitalization of the Long Distance Runner, The, 96, February 94, March 107, April 89 On the Breath of a Cloud (Young Adult Litera- Carol M. Conway, September 71 This World of English, Daniel A. Heller, Septem- ture), Kylene Beers and Teri Lesesne, March Rhetorical Grammar: A Modification Lesson, ber 111, October 125, November 139, De- 96 Martha Kolln, November 25 cember 99 On Not Teaching Grammar, Ed Vavra, November Role of Generalization in Studying Grammar and Thou Shalt Not Grow Stale—Four Command- 32 Usage, The, Bill Gribbin, November 55 ments for Veteran Teachers, Patricia J. Crist, 1, Il, Us of Outlining, The, Carolyn Tuten Ross, Romeo and Juliet and the ESL Classroom, June September 54 January 67 Straughan, December 52 Throw Away That Correcting Pen, Virginia R. La- Other Peoples’ Children, Trevor Owen, December Save, Tim Gillespie, April 53 Fontana, October 71 34 Scaring Up Some Unity: Bilingual Halloween Sto- Tinfoil (Poetry), Deborah A. Hoff, April 44 Other Recent Books on Reading (Resources and ries in the ESL Classroom, Lynn Kameny, De- To Grandmothers House We Go, Barbara Reviews), Bonnie Ericson, November 125 cember 45 Wahlberg, April 59 Our Classrooms and Chaucer’ Canterbury Tales: School Achievement from One Asian American Top Ten, The (Bedside Tabie), Fred Cheney, Feb- How to Make them Work Together (Teaching Perspective, Stanford T. Goto, September 74 ruary 92 Ideas), Stephanie D. Willocks, November 122 Seeking the Best in the Teaching of Writing (Re- Toward a Whole Partnership, Alan Bone and Passion and Craft in Writing: Finding a Balance, sources and Reviews), Tom Romano, October Sarah Busekist, February 35 John A. lanacone, October 17 108 Trading Places: A Yank-Brit Swap (Global Issues), Patron Saint of Membership, The, Cathy Belben, Serious Repercussions, Cathy Belben, April 34 Harvey Fenigsohn, October 111 April 23 Should Teachers of Writing Write Themselves?: Transferring Names into a New Address Book (Po- (Photograph), Lee Brauer, April 22 An Australian Contribution to the Debate, etry), Stan Brown, October 84 (Photograph), Joan Hennessey, September 12 Anne Gleeson and Vaughan Prain, October 42 Tribute, Kathy A. Megyeri, September 24 (Photograph), Bill Leece, January 13, March 19, Six Mileposts Along the Highway to Successful Trio of Tales (Bedside Table), William E. Mc- Octover 16, 113, November 114, 129 Teaching, Rose Weinheimer, September 65 Sweeney, April 87 (Photograph), Glenda Thompson, November 14 Smith’ Twelve Maxims for Survival in Teaching, Triptych in Chapultepec Park, Mexico City (Po- Picture This: Reflections of a Veteran Teacher, Arti Carole L. Smith, September 72 etry), lona Whishaw, April 41 Mader, September 31 Social Constructivism (Coming To Terms), Jean- Twenty-Year Veteran Preperes to Leave the Rickety Pigeon, Parc Dauphin, Paris (Photograph), nine St. Pierre Hirtle, January 91 Structures of Public Education, A, Barbara Jo Ronald Mikulak, April cover, 37 Solitary Soul: The Life of Kate Chopin, A (Bedside Maier, September 45 Pioneer Simulation for Writing and for the Study Table), Susan Tucker, March 104 Two by Frank Van Zant: Generation X Philoso- of Literature, A, Thomas M. McCann, March Springtime Sanity Savers (Teaching Ideas), Diana phizes on a Moral Imperative; The School Ad- 62 Mitchell, April 67 ministrator (Poetry), Frank Van Zant, Decem- Places We Live and Love, The (Bedside Table), Standards No: Let's Rewrite NCTE/IRA Standards ber 58 Crag Hill, March 103 in Plain English, (One Person’s Opinion), Ray- Two by Gena Lengel: The “Y"; Winter, with My Plagiarism (Coming To Terms), Darsie Bowden, mond Stopper, September 15 Son (Poetry), Gena Lengel, February 31 April 82 Standards Yes: Let's Use the NCTE/IRA Standards Two by Jerome McGovern: Adirondack; Blood Pluralism (Coming To Terms), Bill Bolin, March in Our Classrooms and Communities (One (Poetry), Jerome McGovern, September 86 101 Person's Opinion), Beverly Ann Chin, Sep- Two by Nancy G. Westerfield: Alumnae; Emeritus Poems and Paintings: Shades of the Prison House, tember 14 (Poetry), Nancy G. Westerfield, March 61 William Greenway, March 42 Still Crazy After Al! These Years, Eileen A. Sim- Two by Russ Kesler: Habanero; Jonah, Later (Po- Poetry Browsing: You Can't Explicate ‘Em All mons, September 7 etry), Russ Kesler, September 61] (Middle Ground), David S. Burk, January 82 118 December 1996 Using New Novels without Being Overwhelmed What Part of Speech Is O. J. Simpson?: Teaching Reader Response (Teaching Ideas), Rose Reiss- (Teaching Ideas), Diana Mitchell, March 85 Grammar and Style through the News, Sharon man, February 78 Using the World Wide Web in English Classrooms Kane, November 88 Writers’ Room: The Story of a Writing Center, (Software), LindaJ .W ilson, October 118 When a Picture May Be Worth a Thousand Words The, Ellen D. Kolba and Sheila C. Crowell, Valuing Cultural Diversity (New Teachers), Dana (One Person's Opinion), Ann Hassenpflug, October 50 L. Fox and Monica Taylor, December 87 March 17 Writing Across the Ages: A Working Writer's Viewing Film and Television as Whole Language When Acceptance Isn't Enough: Helping ESL Stu- Workshop, Bonnie M. Davis, January 37 Instruction, Richard H. Fehlman, February 43 dents Become Successful Writers, Pamela Sissi Writing Across the Community (Resources and Visualize Vertical Connectedness (Middle Ground), Carroll, Frances Blake, Rose Ann Camalo, and Reviews), R. Baird Shuman, February 80 Lanny van Allen, March 94 Smadar Messer, December 25 Writing and Teaching (Resources and Reviews), Vocabulary of English Punctuation, The (Coming Whole Language Is Not a Room Arrangement; It's Carole Beeghly Bencich, March 91 To Terms), Leah A. Zuidema, November 135 a Controversy, Margaret Lally Queenan, Feb- Writing from the Limbic Brain: A (Perhaps) Fool- Vocabulary Study: An Active Learning Process ruary 26 proof Way to Generate Student Poetry (Teach- (Global Issues), Zhao Shitai, February 83 Why Debates About Teaching Grammar and ing Ideas), George Perreault, October 103 Ward 2 North (Poetry), Natalie Hryciuk, Apri! 38 Usage “Tweak” Me Out, John A. Skretta, No- Writing Portfolios: Turning the House into a Watch Your Language: Teaching Standard Usage vember 64 Home, Peggy A. Raines, January 41 to Resistant and Reluctant Learners, Mark Lar- Why the Woman Who Loved Shoes Loved Shoes Writing—The Semantics of a Loaded Word, John son, November 91 (Poetry), Driek Zirinsky, April 40 Colgan, October 23 We Shall Overcome, Hal Crowther, April 21 Wilder Approach to Teaching Wilder, A (Teach- Writing to Learn Across the Curriculum and ..: What Do Parents Mean When They Talk about ing Ideas), Tracy Anderson Tensen, Novem- English Teacher (Teaching Ideas), Diana Writing “Basics” and What Should English ber 119 Mitchell, September 93 Teachers Do about It?, Anne Wescott Dodd, Witches, Ghosts, and Other Apparitions (Rainbow Yearbook Signing Day, Chris Dempsey, April 46 January 58 Teachers/Rainbow Students), MaryCarmen Yellow Field (Poetry), James Backstrom, April 42 What English Teachers Need to Know about Cruz and Ogle Burks Duff, October 100 You Want Cyber WHAT? A Timid Schoolteacher's Grammar, William Murdick, November 38 Worlds Elsewhere: NEH Summers arid Long Dis- Guide to Technology and the Internet (Soft- What IS Grammar? (Game), Fern Klopp Buck- tance Runners, Eleanor Heginbotharn, Sep- ware), Diane B. Morrison, February 87 num, November 73 tember 48 Youthful Recklessness, Marilyn Reynolds, January What is a “Regular” English Classroom? Language Writer/Author Q & A—Technclogy Takes the 69 and Cultural Diversity in Today’ Schools, Published Interview to the Next Generation of Lenora Cook, December 49 TEACHING THE TEACHING L:°TERATURE WRITING PROCESS IN HIGH SCHOOL: IN HIGH SCHOOL THE NOVEL This, the first volume in the Standards Consensus This, the second volume in the Standards Consen- Series, begins with activities that help students think sus Series, begins with ideas for helping students through the audience and purpose for their writing acquire the concepts and vocabulary for reading and then offers a wide range of classroom experi- novels critically, then continues with general sec- ences that take them through prewriting and draft- tions on engaging the text through writing and speak- ing, peer editing and self editing, and revision. ing, looking at novels in relation to media and the Throughout the book the emphasis is on the class- arts, and considering issues in the wider world as room as a writing community and the studeanst a n they are reflected in novels. The second haloff th e increasingly skilled and confident writer. Books in volume consists of approaches to the teaching of the Standards Consensus Series serve as useful dozens of specific novels, from Fanny Burney’s guides for K-12 teachers who are striving to align Evelina to Toni Morrison’s Song ofS olomon. Books lively, classroom-tested practices with standards. in the Standards Consensus Series serve as useful The series brings the best ideas from prior NCTE guides for K-12 teachers who are striving to align publications together in volumes focused on top- lively, classroom-tested practices with standards. ics commonly addressed in state and local stan- The series brings the best ideas from prior NCTE dards documents. 142 pp. 1995. Grades 9--12. publications together in volumes focused on top- ISBN 0-8141-5286-4. ics commonly addressed in state and local stan- No. 52864-1420 $9.95 ($7.50) dards documents. 212 pp. 1995. Grades 9-12. ISBN 0-8141-5282-1. 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