English Journal, Vol. 70, No. 6, October 1981

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Bait/Rebait

  Michael J. Vieira and William J. Kelly

• The Boston Convention: On the Scene and Behind It

  Robert C. Harvey

• "Are We Gonna Do Anything Fun?"

  Barbi Mitchell-Dwyer

• Dangers of Classroom Humor

  David Sudol

• "Good bread, good meat": Folk Blessings in the English Class

  Hugh Agee

• Laws for Life, Laws for Teaching

  Ken Donelson

• A Primer of Puns

  Richard Lederer

• An Innovative Thrust to Develop Self-Actualization in the Fractional Child

  G. Michael Davis

• Directions to English Teachers

  Shirley Bogart

• Who Speaks for English Teachers?

  Alan Purves

• Just a Spoonful of Sugar

  Mary Ann Geno Perri

• A Change in the Routine

  Fran Lehr

• You Can't Get There from Here

  Barbara DuBois

• Getting in a Lick for Literacy

  J. H. Foegen

• Embrace the Comic

  Howard Van Dyk

• An Approach to Analyzing Jokes

  John Pfordresher

• Harnessing the Energy of Inservice Education, or Learn How to Spell Water by Friday

  Lela Phillips and Thomas Flanigan

• Our Readers Write

• Recommended: Edward Abbey

  Frances K. Foster

• Too Good to Miss

  Maxine M. Long

• Departments

• Choosing the American Way

  Sara M. Pfaff

• The Serious Nature of Humor

  M. Jerry Weiss

• Research: Our Defense Begins Here

  Gerry McBroom

• The Potential and Problems of Sentence Combining

  William Smith

• It's Not Digging Up the Dirt Anymore

  Addison Barker

• Radio Plays in the Classroom: Another Way to Teach Writing

  Henry R. Danielson

• NCTE to You

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