Gives an account of how one teacher taught poems from an anthology of black British poetry entitled "News for Babylon." Reviews actual lesson plans and approaches to specific poems. (TB)

Every student is excited reading his own writing published in books. (JH)

Offers a method for teaching English using biographies in conjunction with creative writing assignments, for example, writing a short biography of another student in the class. (SRT)

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…

The three papers collected in this document present opinions for and against the use of anthologies in introductory writing and literature classes at community colleges. The first paper, "College Students Must Read Book-Length Works," by Dallas E. Dillon, proposes that students, even non-traditional community college students, should be pushed to…

An innovative approach to the teaching of poetry to juniors in high school is described. The subject matter selected for the class was "Spoon River Anthology," and students were then asked to write poems to appear in their own "Kyte Creek Anthology." The students were given copies of 40 poems from "Spoon River," and…

A group of readings devoted to ways of teaching language arts, this is an anthology of practical suggestions for the elementary school teacher. Excerpts are from a variety of sources such as journal articles, curriculum bulletins, and conference proceedings. The articles are non-technical and suggest procedures and techniques that the elementary…

June Jordan, a prolific and most-published African American essayist and poet and a professor in the African American Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley, ventured to challenge the institutionalized Ivory Tower traditions and subsequently established a university program called Poetry for the People (P4P) in 1991. Such…

A questionnaire was sent to the teachers of literature in a stratified random sample of public 4-year Iowa high school districts to gain a description of the teaching of literature. It was found that the "typical" English teacher is a married woman with a bachelor's degree, usually earned in English. She prefers to teach short stories, dramas,…

The 15 articles in this book focus upon the major literacy issues raised by the Bullock Committee in Great Britain and offer reflections upon these issues by United States and British educators who work daily with literacy problems. The articles cover the following topics: the Bullock Committee's work, providing for language growth in young…