Discusses the possibility of censorship of children's and adolescent's books and offers concrete suggestions for preventing or combatting such censorship. (TO)

The "new" teaching of literature which is enjoyable and relevant to the lives of students, and which reflects the excitement of the teacher, should (1) make less use of anthologies, more use of paperbacks; (2) involve less common reading, more individualized reading; (3) use less adult literature, more good adolescent literature; (4) consist of…

After a brief explanation as to the rise of interest in literature from the Southwest the author discusses several areas of study about the area. For each area mentioned, he lists books and articles which he feels both teachers and students would benefit from reading. (LF)

The ultimate judgment in book selection for classroom use must rest with the teacher who should be able to defend his choices on the basis of literary and moral values. Censorship occurs whenever such choices are thwarted by the community. To deal effectively with censorship, the English teacher should know (1) that rational men throughout history…

The "inevitable and ubiquitous nature of censorship" forces teachers of literature to accept seven responsibilities: (1) to know literature of all types and all periods extremely well and to know what constitutes literary merit and adolescent appeal in any work; (2) to understand the implications of arguments for and against censorship; (3) to…

Paper presented at Annual Convention of National Council of Teachers of English (Milwaukee, Wis., November 29, 1968).

A discussion of ways to motivate English students is presented. Five questions are presented and answers given. The questions are: "Do kids really want to be bored?" Why is their background so limited?""How do we motivate students without being hams?""Why do kids have to be entertained in every class?" and "Should we drop all boring English…

Describes six kinds of censorship problems facing the high school teacher. (Author)

This article reports the results of a survey of 277 secondary English teachers in 103 schools to determine the effect of censorship on English teaching in Arizona from 1966 to 1968. Listed are the numbers of teachers responding positively and negatively to each of 30 yes-or-no questions, revealing that 46.43% of the respondents had encountered…