Indicates examples of despair and anguish, brought on by emotional and economic insecurity, in Ruben Dario's poetry. (DS)

Offers suggestions for ways to motivate reluctant readers, assign reading autobiographies, and prepare students for the SAT. (AEA)

The support of her husband, children, and friends was vital to the author when she embarked on graduate study and later into a career. This article is part of a theme issue on women and leadership. (SJL)

Dr. Wagner discusses her childhood role models and her decision to enter educational administration. She gives advice to young women who are planning for leadership roles. This article is part of a theme issue on women and leadership. (SJL)

The author suggests using historical memoirs and autobiographies to involve today's students in the lives of the children of pioneer America. He describes some particular memoirs he has presented to elementary classes. (Editor/SJL)

Lists Korean works of fiction and autobiography, as well as resource books for students and teachers. (JT)

Discusses a view of marginality as it applies to groups interacting on a familiar, personal basis ("folklike" groups) as opposed to groups interacting as strangers ("urban" groups). Concept is discussed from the author's personal experience growing up in a socially isolated family in an urban community. (MK)

Reviewing her roles as student, wife, mother, and psychiatric social worker, the author examines issues of concern to many women who try to combine family with career. She describes the challenges and rewards of being a teacher and the dilemmas faced by professional women who are also wives and mothers. (Author/SK)

Develops a college-level writing assignment using Adrienne Kennedy's autobiography, a multisectioned list poem. Discusses why the personal list poem is appealing and how lists--a simple but generative form--work well for students. States that students wrote a succession of paragraphs about people in their lives who had influenced them. Gives…

Presents a 108-item annotated bibliography of works by Puerto Ricans born and raised in the United States to complement and update Edna Acosta-Belen's "The Literature of Puerto Rican Migration in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography." Includes sections on anthologies, prose fiction, poetry, drama, autobiographies, criticism, and…

Analysis of the life history of a rural woman who left home to pursue an urban career yields insights into the ways in which home and memories of home can support women's career development over the lifespan and prepare them for the emotional and financial difficulties of transition. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

Discusses complexities arising when teachers and teacher educators use autobiographical texts to reflect on their personal/professional selves. Data come from an ongoing research project on teachers' autobiographies, which involves a group of educators at various stages of their career who meet regularly to write and share their autobiographies.…

Describes an autobiographical writing assignment in which preservice teachers reflect on their past language experiences in order to examine the important elements of language development. Presents samples from student essays demonstrating that the factors influencing language development are varied and yet consistent. (RS)

Explores aspects of "The Way to Rainy Mountain," through which Momaday incorporates Native American oral narrative modes into Euro-American written autobiography, and blends mythical, historical, and personal narratives of the Kiowa migration and Momaday's own journey from Montana to Oklahoma. Contains 36 references. (SV)