Pedagogical research into cooperative learning and open educational resources supports an expectation for strong learning outcomes in both cases. This article is a guide to the implementation of a group assignment in a college introductory Hispanic literature course where students create critical editions of literary texts. The critical editions…

High school teacher Julie Gorlewski considers the complexities of multicultural education and the challenges of realizing its potential as a social movement. She explains how students became "powerful users of language" by writing to the editors of their literature anthology to question what appeared to be censorship through alterations to text…

Describes how one eighth-grade teacher, disturbed by students' ignorance of the variety of poetry available to them, developed a poetry anthology assignment, in which students immersed themselves in poetry for three weeks, each one choosing and creating a poetry anthology comprised of 20 poems. Notes students' enthusiasm for the project and pride…

Anthological projects, in which students gather and produce material for a group product (e.g., class newspapers, magazines, radio shows), can reawaken students' interest in English and benefit all ability levels. The novelty of the projects and the promise of tangible results initially motivates the students, and their involvement and the…

Describes the revision of a dated short story anthology by a junior high school English class. (RD)

An anthologized classroom is one in which students are writing toward an anthology of their own essays and drawing on the anthologies of previous classes. Students choose which of their own essays to include, and the works are then photocopied, bound, and sold to the students at cost before the end of the semester. The central challenge to the…

This article describes a venture which resulted in publication of an anthology of poems and illustrations by elementary-level gifted students. The book was copyrighted, printed, and sold by a legal publishing company run by students as a professional enterprise. Guidelines for organizing such projects are offered, and experiences from this and…