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Tensen, Tracy Anderson; And Others – English Journal, 1996
Presents three brief essays that discuss approaching traditional literature (Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," Mark Twain "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," and Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales") in imaginative ways in high school English and vocational/technical classrooms. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Drama, English Instruction, Novels

Mitchell, Diana; Ross, Amy; Reissman, Rose – English Journal, 1997
Presents three brief articles written by teachers that 1) describe a collection of approaches that utilize newspapers and magazines as the "excellent teaching tools they are"; (2) plunge students into critical analysis through the use of advertisements in magazines; (3) present ideas on how to teach students to create writing prompts…
Descriptors: Advertising, Class Activities, Newspapers, Periodicals

Kameny, Lynn – English Journal, 1996
Addresses the cultural diversity that exists in English-as-a-second-language classrooms. Discusses a Halloween story unit developed to help students bridge cultural differences. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Secondary Education

Allen, Kathy – English Journal, 1990
Describes "Project History in the Making" in which students in the class of 1990 read letters written by members of the classes of 1940 and 1965 and write letters to the class of 2015. Notes some of the questions asked by the class of 1990 to invited guests from the classes of 1940 and 1965. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Letters (Correspondence), Local History, Middle Schools

English Journal, 1990
Describes several assignments and activities that focus on writing for "real-world" purposes, including writing to pen pals, government agencies, and for children or the elderly. (MM)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods

Polette, Keith – English Journal, 1995
Suggests that students can improve their writing by being instructed on how to write badly. Applies the criteria of testability, tunnel-vision, excessive vagueness, flying in the face of established fact, and hazy authority to tabloid newspaper stories. Discusses how students can write their own "rotten" tabloid stories by taking these…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, Secondary Education, Writing Assignments

Lardner, Ted; And Others – English Journal, 1996
Presents a dialog among three English teachers concerning teaching performance poetry to ninth graders. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Writing, Grade 9, Poetry

Garrison, Roger – English Journal, 1990
Presents an approach used in high school English classes to connect students with the world outside high school. Encourages students to take risks by selecting a project topic, choosing and inviting a guest speaker, preparing for the visit, reading and writing on related topics, and doing a follow-up project. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Reading, English Instruction, High Schools

McMahon, Maureen – English Journal, 1999
Argues that humor is an invaluable teaching tool in English classes. Describes how the author and her students: found humor an important means of discovering profound truths in Shakespeare's dramas; enjoyed the epic "Paradise Lost"; worked with satire in Chaucer; and used humor in students' own creative activities. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classics (Literature), English Instruction, Humor

Fent, Cindy – English Journal, 1990
Describes the collaboration between two teachers, involving six eighth grade and two ninth grade English classes, to present a unit reflecting the needs, hopes, and potential of the handicapped. Explains how volunteerism was incorporated into the classroom. Describes preparation, traveling to the Special Olympics State Basketball Tournament, class…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grade 8, Grade 9, Learning Activities

Fennick, Ruth; And Others – English Journal, 1993
Considers how English teachers, by building a complementary relationship with the workplace, can prepare students better for success in the coming century. Focuses on ways of revolutionizing writing instruction with real world problems. Discusses three examples of real workplace projects demonstrating the notion of writing as problem solving. (HB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Postsecondary Education, Problem Solving, Professional Development

Hadaway, Nancy L.; Mundy, JaNae – English Journal, 1992
Describes a folklore project for high school classes in English as a Second Language (from beginning to advanced) that focuses on family folklore and uses children's/young adult literature as models of personal experience or folk narrative to serve as catalysts for class discussion and reading/writing activities. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, English (Second Language), Family (Sociological Unit), Family Characteristics

Hogarty, Ken – English Journal, 1991
Describes a class activity designed to play up the blurred boundary between fiction and nonfiction. Notes that students filled out Internal Revenue Service tax forms for people who might exist and that other students created biographies and autobiographies from the fictitious tax forms. (RS)
Descriptors: Biographies, Class Activities, English Instruction, Fiction

Weber, Dean – English Journal, 1992
Defines technical writing, the importance of audience awareness, and the fog index. Analyzes examples of technical writing and tips on developing skills such as writing instructions and assembling a model. Offers assignments and projects as well as class activities. (PRA)
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Secondary Education

VanderStaay, Steven – English Journal, 1990
Describes a class activity in which students receive copies of requests for charitable contributions, research the charities and issues, write a persuasive appeal for the charities, and debate the merits of the various causes examined by the class. Argues that students learn to analyze persuasive appeals, separate emotional from factual arguments,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Current Events, Debate, English Instruction
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