Faced with standardized writing tests, students must write on demand to prompts they haven't chosen. While students have little control over the prompts they must answer or the time and space limitations in which they must answer them, students and teachers have opportunities for meaningful resistance to standardized writing tests in reconsidering…

The ways in which James Welch's poetry and prose are used to overcome stereotypes of Native Americans are discussed. He was a great writer who developed unforgettable characters and scenes that enriched reader's experience.

Illustrates how a linguistic analysis of Hemingway's prose style can be appealing to a student by being precise instead of vague and being a procedure. (MM)

The author asserts that by integrating literature and language, students will gain deeper insights into both areas. (Author/LF)

The inclusion of a substantial amount of nonfiction in your English class is one of the easiest ways to involve the uninvolved high school student; specific books are suggested. (Author/SP)

How to help students progress from descriptive to affective to creative responses through the use of films in a language arts class. (RB)

Describes a program of creative writing and describes student objectives and teacher objectives that allow the experience to aid students in producing critical essays. (CRH)

Although the King James Version of the Bible has had considerable impact on English language and literature, it is seldom studied in American secondary schools. Even before the Supreme Court decision of 1963 banned religious exercises in public schools, the study of the Bible was sketchy and non-systematic. Since the decision, certain conclusions…