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Direct linkBrooke Richelle Holland – English Journal, 2016
By exploring the uses of plain, middle, and grand styles, the author examines how theories of classical rhetoricians can be applied to Atticus Finch's speeches in "To Kill a Mockingbird." In the high school English classrooms the author has encountered, "rhetoric" has not been a focus or even a passing discussion. It forms the…
Descriptors: Literary Devices, Novels, Reading Materials, Reader Text Relationship
Stacey A. Gibson – English Journal, 2017
At a time when some high school English classrooms erase and distort experiences and identities, it is vital for educators to explore pedagogies that provide radically reimagined forms of liberatory thought. This article explores ways the work of Coates can serve as "blueprint liberation" in the English classroom. The line of broken,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Decolonization, Student Behavior, Cultural Influences
Download full textLocke, Terry; Cleary, Alison – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
As an approach to literary study, critical literacy is not a widespread practice in New Zealand secondary schools. This article draws on a major project on teaching literature in the multicultural classroom that take place over two years in 2008-2009. In it we report on a case study where a Year 13 English teacher designed and tested a novel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Case Studies, English Curriculum
Hartman, Karen – English Journal, 2009
Sometimes teachers do not discover what is really important to students because they do not give them an avenue to explore issues close to their hearts. They must find ways to reach the gay or lesbian students who fear their secret might get out or those who are already out and oftentimes bear the ugliness of teenage teasing, taunts, and sometimes…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Young Adults, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity
Choo, Suzanne S. – High School Journal, 2010
The English curriculum tends to be framed in relation to two unconscious boundaries based on the dichotomies between writing and reading as well as print and image. This paper re-envisions the curriculum as comprising a hybrid space where students are involved in composing texts that integrate writing and reading practices while also considering…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Writing (Composition), Semiotics, Linguistic Theory
Pike, Mark A. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2003
This paper examines the debate about the English literature canon in schools. It evaluates the importance of the canon in a 21st-century curriculum and considers its relevance to adolescent readers saturated in early 21st-century culture who have disparate identities and diverse backgrounds. The implications for teaching and learning of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Literature, Classics (Literature), Poetry
