The nonfiction letter offers students an opportunity to study a dying art while also gaining insights about people, places, and eras. Teaching students the value of letters teaches community, caring, and connection. Whereas reading great works of literature can and does provide insight into life's purpose and meaning, the nonfiction text of a…

Describes role of a small group instructor as primarily a listener, a participant, and a resource person. (Author/GB)

The school experience should increase a child's sense of humanity and of the potentialities for depth and range in human relations. (MM)

Describes a high school Humanities program for the study of Man's dilemmas, demonstrated in current problems of alienation, and reflected in literature, art, music, and drama. (Author/GB)

Stresses the need for the incorporation of world literature in the English program and cites several materials which deal with the literature of various nations and the teaching of cultural appreciation in the secondary school. (MM)

Explains why humor should be studied in English classrooms and how humorous writing serves as a vehicle for making its readers more socially conscious of human values. Offers a list of books that can be used in classroom discussions of humor. (RL)

Claims that high school curricula should provide opportunities for students to vicariously explore the relationships, roles, and ideas that appear in Shakespearean drama. Uses the dilemma dramatized in "Hamlet" as an example. (JD)

Describes a one semester literature course, "Human Relations in Literature," that allows students to discuss their own questions and problems indirectly in terms of a fictional character. (TO)

A paper presented at Opening General Session of annual convention of National Council of Teachers of English (60th, Atlanta, November 26, 1970); appears also in College English," vol. 32, no. 5 (February 1971), pp. 563-72, and in Elementary English," vol. 48, no. 4 (April 1971), pp. 170-78. (Editor/SW)

Describes a unit (utilizing The San Pebbles") which explores the attitudes of different people and nations toward the United States. (SW)

Argues that the content of language arts education is directly linked to the personal growth of students, which is the central purpose of education. Includes suggestions for classroom application of this concept. (DF)