Discusses several approaches the auhor has found particularly rewarding in teaching The Book of Job" and J. B." (MB)

Suggests ways to improve the quality of language arts instruction in this lighthearted presentation of the objectives and resolutions of a mythical international language arts association. (VJ)

Discusses the development of a program for sixth, seventh, and eighth graders that provides opportunities for students to be active in their language activities, to sample a range of language activities, and to use language in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes. (Author)

Focuses on American Indian and Afro-American oral tradition to explore the substance and potential pedagogic value of American oral literature. Stresses the literary value of modern folk literature, including popular songs and rhetoric. (Author/JB)

The important aspect of a thematic approach is that it can link the literature with the society that produced it. It can help to foster a sense of place in students. It helps to isolate the basic myths which underlie the Canadian response to life. (Author)

Discusses why poetry is often boring to students and suggests books of modern poems available to students and teachers. (SW)

Defines and illustrates free, haiku, cinquain, diamante, septolet, and quintain verse patterns and urges their use in motivating students to compose poems. (SW)

Presents contrasting views of some French literary critics including Georges Poulet, Charles Mauron, Jean-Pierre Richard, Jean-Paul Weber, and Roland Barthes. Paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) December 28, 1968 in New York, New York. (DS)

Part I of this review appeared in the Fall 1969 issue. The concluding part discusses some fifty volumes on Victorian literature received between September 1968 and September 1969. (DS)

Considers literature from the capitalistic and communistic points of view and discusses the respective literary critics of the two ideologies. (DS)

Literary works (novels, plays, poems) are suggested for the public's environmental orientation. Discusses rationale for using these works, focusing on Ibsen's "An Enemy of the People" (which parallels present problems in United States cities) as a valuable literary air to a better and easier understanding of environmental issues. (JN)

Presents the formula for writing poetry as containing three elements: the content of the poet's mind; the poetic medium--language; and the creative spark that fuses experience and language, or content and medium, into poetry. (MM)