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Brittany Rose Collins – English Journal, 2017
There is a large body of research regarding the affective and cathartic benefits of literature, both generalized and related to educational contexts. Anecdotal data carry special profundity and pertinence when considering issues of mortality. This article reviews current literature regarding the practices of reading and writing about death.…
Descriptors: Death, Literature, Reader Text Relationship, Grief
Gary Soto – English Journal, 2019
Poet and essayist Gary Soto considers the senses while reading and the purpose of maintaining a reading life. According to the author, it's the pleasure of a story, and the intimacy of getting to know the characters well enough to exercise tenderness (or dislike) toward them. It's to weigh but not judge the behavior of characters, who are like…
Descriptors: Reading Habits, Reading Motivation, Reading Attitudes, Reader Text Relationship
The Honor List of 2018 Prize-Winning Young Adult Books: Following Your Heart and Speaking Your Truth
Bryan Gillis – English Journal, 2019
The 2018 "English Journal" young adult honor list selections are an amazing mix of truth and fiction, fact and fantasy. The protagonists, five females and one male, all demonstrate what it means to follow your heart and speak your truth. Consideration of young adult books for inclusion in the 2018 Honor List begins in January and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescent Literature, Books, Selection Criteria
Keisha McIntyre-McCullough – English Journal, 2020
Overall, the author wanted to teach using culturally responsive approaches. The ELA teacher can fuel social justice teaching. In this article, the author discusses how their personal biases affected their classroom instruction and how they shifted their educational philosophy to consider the needs and interests of their students. In US education,…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Social Justice, Course Content
William Visco – English Journal, 2019
In this article, the author describes three strategies they have used to bolster interest and make use of popular culture to enhance readers' interactions with texts: pop culture pairings, musical connections, and multimodal projects. The author addresses the cultivation of pop culture awareness, the importance of multimodal pedagogy, the…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Learner Engagement, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Comprehension
Deidre Faughey – English Journal, 2020
The author pushes two desks together in the front of the class and pile supplies on them: markers, drawing paper, rulers, and pencils. As the students enter a combined English language arts (ELA) and English as a New Language (ENL) tenth-grade classroom, they select what they need and settle in to their work. As an ELA educator who is also a…
Descriptors: Restorative Practices, Teaching Methods, Grade 10, High Schools
Brittany Morgan Brewer – English Journal, 2016
This article explores how choral reading can be used as a drama tool in a classroom setting to engage students with nonfiction rhetoric while adhering to the Common Core State Standards.
Descriptors: Grade 10, Rhetoric, Nonfiction, Theater Arts
Karen Moynihan – English Journal, 2016
This article presents ways to incorporate the works of artist Edward Hopper in the ELA secondary classroom. Students analyze Hopper's paintings as a text and create their own responses in the form of poetry, short story, photography, and other visual media.
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, English Instruction, Art Education, Visual Aids
Joan Lange; Patrick Connolly; Devin Lintzenich – English Journal, 2015
This article discusses how literacy and literature goals merged in a media project designed to encourage high school students to build new connections with the poetic elements of Shakespeare's plays "Romeo and Juliet" and "Julius Caesar." Using the free software Animoto movie maker, students were challenged to look closely at…
Descriptors: Poetry, Classical Literature, English Literature, Literature Appreciation
Katherine Mason – English Journal, 2014
Young adult literature (YAL) that features lesbian athletes helps provide adolescent readers with a more inclusive and accurate picture of who female athletes are and can be. In exploring how these texts might serve as counternarratives to televised media's heteronormative representations of female athletes, the author wondered: Do lesbian…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity, Athletes
Michael Hoffman – English Journal, 2015
Keri Franklin has proposed that creating the appropriate social-emotional environment for peer response (or peer conferencing, as she calls it) is a necessary first step. Within the context of her peer response process, though, are there strategies that can be adopted that would further scaffold students' ability to take each other's work…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Poetry, Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
Kelly Byrne Bull; Juliann B. Dupuis – English Journal, 2014
This article offers suggestions on teaching a nonfiction unit (in English) and a genetics unit (in biology) that, together, incorporate reading, researching, writing, andĀ advocating for an environmental issue. The multimodal approach described in this article seeks to integrate web-based learning experiences and digital texts along with…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, English Teachers, Science Teachers
Wolfe, Paula; Kleijwegt, Danielle – English Journal, 2012
The emergence of quality multimodal texts such as graphic novels may provide new vistas that allow adolescents access to more complex readings of difficult texts. This is especially true for the large number of graphic versions of Shakespearean text that have recently come on the market. However, it is still unclear as to what students actually…
Descriptors: Drama, Literacy, Visual Literacy, Multimedia Materials
LoMonico, Michael – English Journal, 2012
Why do educators teach literature? The author thinks they can hear the answer in the voice of Huckleberry Finn and David Copperfield and Holden Caulfield and the omniscient narrator in "Beloved." It's the wonderful sound of those words, the gorgeous flow of those well-crafted sentences, and the marvelous way Twain and Dickens and Morrison and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Literary Styles
Johnson, Angela Beumer; Augustus, Linda; Agiro, Christa Preston – English Journal, 2012
Bullying remains a wretched, pervasive problem in the society, especially for teenagers. Bullying is commonly defined as negative acts that occur repeatedly and involve an imbalance of power (Olweus 413); since this widely accepted definition excludes one-time acts of cruelty, the authors prefer to use the word "conflict" in their conversations…
Descriptors: Media Literacy, Bullying, Conflict, Classics (Literature)