Article suggests books and films, as well as newspapers, which senior high-school students who will be voting in 1972 for the first time can study to broaden their understanding of the political parties and the electoral process. School and class activities relevant to the presidential election are also detailed. (PD)

Author discusses Shaw's The Apple Cart" as typically Shavian in content and style. (MB)

High-school English students learn to analyze short stories by being given a situation the actual author has used and writing scripts to develop the plot and situation. Only later are they assigned the story to read and discuss. In Nold's experience, they develop both imagination and heightened critical awareness. (PD)

Social Studies Curriculum Guidelines, A Position Statement recently issued by the National Council for the Social Studies, is having a major impact throughout the country. Two educators draw on their years of experience to analyze this important document. (Editor)

Presidential address delivered at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, December 30, 1971, in Chicago, Illinois. Applies the contrastive method to literature and culture in teaching Spanish. Compares points of view in interpretation and criticism of Spanish American literature, also cultural and…

Distinguishes more than three modes of poetic discourse as ways in which writers interrelate the verbal presentation of vision and the artistic representation of action. (Author)

Conclusion of a critical review of the works of the poetess by a professor of English at the University of Chicago. (JM)