Individually and in small groups, superior senior high school students in Belmont, Massachusetts, produced multimedia projects illustrating themes or moods through the synchronization of poems, original scripts, drawings, photographs, slides, and music. Projects ranged from a personal photographic interpretation of Delany's poem, "Solace," to…

The purpose of this study was to determine the critical and pedagogical emphases of professionally superior high school literature teachers. Almost 100 reportedly effective lesson plans (submitted by 63 teachers) were evaluated by the use of a classification scale which was established from five conceptions of literature identified in professional…

A revised approach to teacher education is necessary for inner-city teachers, all of whom must cope with their own racism and prejudice, as well as the peculiar problems of the inner-city schools. The high school English teacher particularly needs special training to meet the unique demands made upon his skills in the urban setting. Intensive…

Over 150 teachers from five western-central states completed questionnaires on their experiences with individualized reading (IR). Most of the respondents were familiar with IR and had used it at least limitedly in their classrooms. They praised IR's advantages as generating greater student interest, allowing for self-paced progress, and…

Three views of literature as a bond between science and English are presented. First, the view that the sciences are contributing to the restructuring of literary forms is illustrated by quotations from Nigel Dennis, Northrop Frye, Stephen Spender, Ken Kesey, and Claude Mauriac. Second, historical precedence for viewing literature as rapprochement…

A high school English department chairman, who is highly skilled in language, literature, and teaching methods, becomes invaluable in supervising and supplementing the work of his teachers when he is given considerably lightened teaching loads and the authority to implement policies. In a time when department staffs are made unstable by mobile…

Since linguists have been concerned with a variety of approaches to the teaching of reading, their linguistic theories and recommended practices should become familiar to teachers of American Indian students. A number of studies have evolved from the work of Leonard Bloomfield and Charles Fries who felt that reading comprehension was a passive…

A study was conducted to determine how effective was the Communications Program in providing special assistance to students who were experiencing serious difficulty with the English language. Forty-eight students were used in the experimental group at Britannia Secondary School and a further twenty-six students from Templeton Secondary School…

The purpose of this pilot study was to collect information on the feasibility of designing a controlled experimental project to test the effectiveness of a new grammar called "sector analysis" on improving student writing. The fourth, seventh, and ninth grade materials used in this study were based on this new approach to teaching…

Articles in this publication either deal with one of a variety of topics involved under the broad heading of the teaching of English or, more specifically, concern the different approaches to the teaching of literature. Titles are "The Psychology of Remediation"; "Non-Standard Negro Dialect: Myth or Reality"; "The Teaching of Pronunciation in the…

This special report presents the resolution on language adopted by members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in April 1974, and the background statement explaining and supporting the resolution. The statement includes answers to some of the questions the resolution might raise, such as: What is meant by dialect? Why and…

This collection, containing essays by contemporary critics, analyzes such aspects of the novel as structure, history, point of view, techniques, and its future. Included are "What is Exposition?" by Meir Sternberg; "Notes Toward a Comic Fiction" by Robert B. Martin; "The Aesthetics of the Supra-Novel" by Irving H.…

The aim of English teachers should be to refine and develop responses of children to literature. Development is defined as an increasing sense of form. In literature this relates to a sense of the patterns of events, a sense which increases as one's frame of reference of reality grows with experience. Children must be encouraged to trust their…

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major American authors, this volume contains critical studies of Mark Twain. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. Topics covered…

This guide outlines a minimal expectations program which provides for a competency-based language arts education for the seventh, eighth, and ninth grader. The book is divided into the following main sections: language--listening, reading, word study, semantics, language structure, and speaking; literature--fiction and non-fiction; and…