Reflects on a number of topics relating to science fiction, including the power of good science fiction to spark imaginations and provoke serious thought, the role of women in science fiction, childhood experiences that stimulated the author's thought processes, and the author's experiences as a science fiction writer. (ET)

Describes in detail a magazine article writing course, including textbooks, teaching units, goals and objectives, teaching resources, and specific assignments. Tells how the course emphasizes preparation of a marketable skill. (AEA)

Interviews with three poets--Tess Gallagher, Sandra McPherson, and Galway Kinnell--focus on their attitudes towards teaching poetry writing, successful poetry teaching methods, and activities that encourage students to read and write poetry. (RL)

Describes videotaped materials presenting interviews with established authors that are available for use in writing instruction in secondary schools. Eight suggestions from famous writers are included. (DF)

Emphasizes attention to the sound of a poem in both teaching and writing poetry. Provides selected poems written by students and teachers. (JT)

Describes a secondary level interdisciplinary (social studies and language arts) study of family life in early nineteenth-century New England. Research and creative writing were combined with a working field trip to a living history museum, Old Sturbridge Village. (KC)

Describes an approach to teaching narrative poetry writing to tenth-grade students. (RL)

A detailed account of how a high school playwriting course was developed, with a list of 20 exercises. (RL)

Elementary students were asked to find 12 colors and 5 sounds in their immediate natural environment and to describe in writing where they saw each color in relationship to themselves. The writings formed a type of poetry which expressed involvement with and observation of the environment. (CM)

Surveys the history and aims of an organization of teachers and writers working together to teach writing to children. Includes an interview with one of the founding writers, Phillip Lopate. (TJ)

Shows how digging for details adds richness and new meanings to cliches. Provides student poems resulting from exercises with trite materials. (RL)

Some 60 activities in language arts for use in the out-of-doors are described. Categories for these middle school activities include oral activities, factual writing, fictional writing, and poetry. (JC)

Presents a procedure for involving small groups of students in the creation and production of videotaped short stories. (DD)

N. J. Loftis's poem, Black Anima, is considered as a problem in aesthetics. (Author/AM)