The authors present a new young adult novel as a focal point for preparing prospective secondary teachers to employ a rich variety of literacies to enhance literature instruction. The hope is to encourage literature teachers to consider a wide range of useful methodologies available across generations of educational research. By demonstrating how…

Presents a fictionalized true story about the creation of an interdisciplinary humanities program at a small Nebraska private high school. (TO)

An open letter by the President of the National Council of Teachers of English; appears also in College English," vol. 32, no. 2 (November 1970), pp. 237-38, and in Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 7 (November 1970), pp. 914-16. (RD)

Studying the Bible as a "source book for the humanities" can help students understand Biblical allusions found in literature, the fine arts, the news media, and cultured conversation. Students at Newton High School (Massachusetts) took part in a Biblical study course, using the King James Version because student most commonly meet…

Delineates the valid emphasis placed on humanities. Discusses and defines three modes of thinking particularly well-suited to the study of humanities and to helping students analyze, imagine, and question and that help them create value and meaning in their lives. (CRH)

Presents a case for incorporating humanities instruction into the study of literature and suggests activities by which teachers can go beyond literary devices in individual works to encompass the humanistic components of the cultures that produced them. (EL)