"Spoon River Anthology," by poet Edgar Lee Masters, consists of epitaphs spoken by the defunct inhabitants of imaginary Spoon River, Illinois. The poems are a composite recollection of several small, turn-of-the-century Illinois towns, where Masters lived as a boy. Students of these works came to realize that the small town, as assessed…

Twenty-six articles or extracts from scholarly literature and one article written for this collection are contained in this anthology intended for teachers. The articles present the viewpoints of writers in a number of scientific and sociological fields concerning human interactions with their environment. Articles are arranged in the following…

This volume is intended to provide a brief introduction to Mary Boole's writings. Short selections from her writings are organized under four areas: on teaching and learning, some mathematical lessons, the nature of mathematics, and the work of George Boole. A brief biography is also included. (DT)

Suggests that, in selecting readings or texts for their composition students, instructors should choose the best contemporary prose, thus giving their students models by which they can improve their own writing. (MM)

This book, a collection of poems by adolescents and adults, is designed to offer teachers a supplement to the standard middle school and high school literature anthologies. Divided into 11 themed sections, the collection mixes more than 100 poems by students in grades 5 to 12 with more than 40 pieces by adults, including well-known writers such as…

This book focuses on the 10 social studies strands recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). The book is intended to help social studies educators design, implement, and assess social studies teaching and learning practices. This publication consists of a series of articles reprinted from a variety of sources and includes…

What young Black students are proclaiming now is that they want their own material written with their Black consciousness, their spiritual and cultural problems in mind. Schools and publishers would do well to listen to the insistent voices of young Black students. (Author)

Critically analyzes teachers' manuals for college literature anthologies. (SW)

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…

The new "Norton Anthology of African American Literature," edited by two African American professors, has been received enthusiastically and quickly by both academic and general audiences, and fills a gap in textbooks. It includes the works of 120 writers, 52 of whom are women. The academic edition comes with an audio compact disk that…

Presents a 90-item annotated bibliography that supplements Teresa McKenna's bibliographic essay "Immigrants in Our Own Land: A Chicano Literature Review and Pedagogical Assessment" (published in this journal in 1988). Includes sections on anthologies, prose fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, criticism, and journals. (RS)

Presents a 108-item annotated bibliography of works by Puerto Ricans born and raised in the United States to complement and update Edna Acosta-Belen's "The Literature of Puerto Rican Migration in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography." Includes sections on anthologies, prose fiction, poetry, drama, autobiographies, criticism, and…

Recounts events surrounding a superintendent's decision to confiscate an anthology from a senior English literature course because of a few words in one of the poems. (TB)

Explains the rationale for including short fiction in the curricula for two college developmental reading classes and describes the features of the anthologies used. Suggests the use of the middle and the advanced levels of "Best Short Stories" published by Jamestown Publishers. Notes that these anthologies contain features that make…

Discussed is the value of using essays and other popular writings as supplemental material for advanced placement biology courses. Their value as motivators and as views of the everyday work of scientists is stressed. (CW)