Describes how students wrestled with an assignment that asked them to name their heroes or heroines, compare them to "Beowulf," and defend their choices in writing and class discussion. Tells how students gained insight into their community and the ways in which people make it better. (MG)

Shares results of a predrafting activity for tenth grade composition students centered on the concept of the common good. Asks students to generate questions for an interview with a state representative and his opponent in the November 1988 election in preparation for writing essays. (MG)

Explains the rationale for the use of Spanish music in Spanish language classes, and describes students' reactions, how the music is used to help the listening/writing experience, and how recorded commercials in Spanish aid in learning language patterns. (GLR)

Presents six activities for elementary school students that improve vocabulary, teach poetry, introduce oral rhyming, motivate students, aid substitutes, and tackle the problem of profanity. (PRA)

Discusses strategies to teach summary writing to college developmental readers and writers, including line idea maps, circle maps, developing specific steps, summary charts, and modeling. (SR)

Outlines strategies for effectively teaching classic works of sociological theory to undergraduate sociology majors. Suggests placing a heightened emphasis on writing, opening the class to as much discussion as possible, and forming student reading groups. Selects classic works to be read and an order in which to teach them. (DB)

Describes team-taught courses in which the lectures of each team member are critiqued by other team members. Stresses that the result is a deeper, more critical analysis of each team member's material and of the interrelationship of their presentations. (DB)

Summarizes the use of field experiments designed to investigate personal space invasion. States that the experiments were designed and conducted by introductory psychology students and complemented by classroom lectures. Reports that the experiments provided an understanding of personal space, personal space invasion, and the implications…

Examines the social organization of a daily group meeting in an American primary school classroom to determine the effects of contextualization cues, that the teacher occasionally omits, on achieving social order in the classroom. Contains 35 references. (GLR)

Discusses the benefits of the case study approach to teaching business communication skills. Discusses implementation, time frame, and assignments. (RS)

Describes an assignment in which ninth graders created a storybook or a textbook for children in grades 4-6 that would link 4 core subjects: math, English, science, and anthropology. (SR)

Describes the Legends Project in Indiana in which a class collaboratively researches, writes, and illustrates a local legend and sends it via computers and modems to other classes across the state. (SR)

It is argued that more attention should be paid to first-year graduate students' specific difficulties with literary texts and their linguistic techniques that deviate from standard usage. An instructional model is proposed, with examples appended. (Contains 16 references.) (LB)

Having students create personalized stationery is a good way to promote student writing. Children of all ages can design computer-generated stationery in just a few steps using predrawn or original graphics and a variety of typefaces. The article describes three programs that enable students to create stationery. (SM)

Argues that textbook language influences classroom talk in both coercive and liberating ways. Offers an approach that helps teachers use that fact to get students thinking about texts' hidden messages, in particular regarding gender inequalities. (SR)