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Virginia Department of Education, 2011
Virginia's "College and Career Ready English Performance Expectations" grade 12 capstone course contains high-interest contextualized content designed to give certain students an additional boost for competent and successful entry into college and careers. The course will add to students' preparation for critical reading, college and…
Descriptors: Course Content, Grade 12, Educational Objectives, Behavioral Objectives

Greenlaw, M. Jean; McIntosh, Margaret E. – Clearing House, 1986
Describes students' work during a 12-week course on fantasy offered to talented and gifted high school students. Illustrates how the students learned about metaphor and inference. (SRT)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Course Content, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Garrett, Nancy Fales – Teachers and Writers Magazine, 1981
A detailed account of how a high school playwriting course was developed, with a list of 20 exercises. (RL)
Descriptors: Course Content, Creative Writing, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum

Greenbaum, Vicky – English Journal, 1994
Provides suggestions for studying the gay and lesbian subtexts that exist in numerous literary works often taught in high schools. Argues that teachers can benefit from discussing these issues. Shows how Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was taught in such a context. (HB)
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Change, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Hall, H. L. – Communication: Journalism Education Today (C:JET), 1984
Recommends teaching journalism as an English course or in combination with an English course to ensure the continuation of journalism education in the face of more stringent graduate requirements. Describes such a course, which includes literature, a research paper, and regular composition assignments. (HTH)
Descriptors: Course Content, English Curriculum, Journalism Education, Scholastic Journalism
Jones, Pat – Forum for the Discussion of New Trends in Education, 1979
The head of the English department at a senior high school explains the organizational and curricular adaptations that have made their practice of mixed-ability teaching a success. Sample English lessons are described. (SJL)
Descriptors: Course Content, English Curriculum, Heterogeneous Grouping, High Schools

Herzog, Brad – English in Texas, 1994
Considers the profit of caring for writing students and helping them believe in the value of the materials they produce. Provides experiential evidence of the influence of one teacher's attempt to care ethically for his students. (HB)
Descriptors: Course Content, Educational Philosophy, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Willinsky, John – 1986
Feminist literary criticism seems to have the potential to bring new life to old standards taught in the high school English class even if the students are not themselves feminists. A feminist approach to literature instruction was first attempted using "This Is Just to Say" and "The Young Housewife" by William Carlos Williams…
Descriptors: Course Content, Creative Writing, English Curriculum, English Instruction

Johnson, Robert Spencer – NASSP Bulletin, 1981
Defines and explains the elements of the English curriculum (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and shows how, as integrated, they become the basis for the middle school or junior high English curriculum. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Course Content, English Curriculum, Junior High Schools, Language Arts

Kiniry, Malcolm; Strenski, Ellen – College Composition and Communication, 1985
Describes a system for arranging assignments in a composition course that aims to prepare students for academic writing, by focusing entirely on exposition and its conceptual demands. (HTH)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Course Content, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum
Ferlazzo, Paul J. – ADE Bulletin, 1986
Describes how the structure and size of the freshman writing class was changed to deal with the large demand for these classes and the problems in staffing them. Discusses the university's commitment to writing across the curriculum, the writing center, the student tutor program, the use of a collaborative-workshop method, and the writing…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Content Area Writing, Course Content

Fiore, Kyle; Elsasser, Nan – College English, 1982
Presents a summarized, first-person account of implementing an English curriculum based on Pualo Freire's approach to literacy education and on Lev Vygotsky's work on the internal learning process. (RL)
Descriptors: College English, Course Content, Curriculum Development, English Curriculum
Worby, Diana Z. – 1980
By using a thematic approach and by drawing on other disciplines for breadth, English teachers can "honorably seduce" career-oriented students into a love affair with literature and draw them back into the English curriculum. For example, a teacher's conversation with a student focusing on fathers and sons led the teacher to suggest that the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Steele, Mildred R. – 1976
This paper describes the development and design of English 118 at Drake University. The course, geared primarily for college juniors and seniors, devotes proportionate shares of time to the theory, practice, and analysis of written expression, oral interpretation, and nonverbal communication. Six course options enable a wide variety of students to…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Hosic, James Fleming, Comp. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
This report is intended to provide school authorities with information useful in arranging courses of study and in providing proper conditions, to assist teachers in choosing instructional materials and in handling them according to the best teaching methods available, and to lay a foundation for articulating the movement for improved teaching of…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Educational History
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