Nonfiction texts demand critical literacy, as evidenced by these teachers' experience teaching Phillip Hoose's "Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice" with ninth graders. In addition to selecting high-quality nonfiction, the authors are committed to high impact teaching of those texts. For the authors that means supporting students'…

Drawing on the expertise of colleagues in technology and filmmaking, high school teacher Joe Bucolo helps students demonstrate the critical comprehension, mastery, and creative insight that transpire from close study of Shakespeare's plays. Production Teams examine the context and language of Shakespeare's scenes, interview an expert, and address…

Author is co-director of the Tri-University Project; article includes excerpts from the Catalog. (SP)

Class exploration and a writing assignment on "quality" help students to understand the aim of the writing course. (DD)

Discusses a women's literature course designed to explore the connections between the narratives that students read and discuss and the narratives that they live and write. Examines a variety of sources, including fiction, biography, autobiography, literary criticism, history, psychology, sociology, and popular culture. (RS)

Argues that the purpose of humanities courses ought to be not to make us feel good about ourselves, but to make us aware of ourselves." (Author/RD)

Describes the Living Curriculum,'' an inservice teacher education program in Tennessee. (MM)

Describes two gaming strategies which teach poetry using quotations extracted from six Shakespeare plays. Discusses selecting plays and quotations, games for matching quotations, and providing synopses and introducing characters. Describes in detail learning objectives, player distribution, adjudicator role, procedures and rules, and debriefing…

Author feels that language, literature, and composition can be served at least as well by a course in supernatural literature and communication as by a more conventional English course. (Author/MB)

Describes a series of procedures that can objectively measure student growth in interdisciplinary humanities courses at the secondary or college level. Preinstruction and postinstruction assessments determine student attitudes, responses to literature, art, and music, and knowledge of course content; midcourse individual conferences are also used.…

A report by the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; includes ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic. (SW)

Describes an elective course, Mass Media and Propaganda, in which students investigate advertising claims. (MB)

Author makes the case for starting in high school to improve the literacy and communication skills of students destined for scientific/technological careers. Detailed course program and extensive bibliography included. (PD)

Describes an eight-week elective course for High School juniors and seniors on The Life and Works of Eugene O'Neill." (MB)