English Journal, Vol. 70, No. 7, November 1981

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Bait/Rebait: English Teachers and TV

  David A. England and Chris Eisele

• In Praise of Theory

  Gary L. McLaughlin

• What Kind of People Talk That Way?

  Miles Myers

• Seven Reasons Why Theories Sometimes Don't Translate into Good Classroom Teaching

  Greg Larkin

• "Let Them Eat Cake"

  Deanne Bogdan

• Socrates Was Executed for Being Innovative

  Toni Sills

• Response-Based Teaching of Literature

  Robert E. Probst

• Peer Teaching in the Writing Classroom

  David R. James

• A Synthesis of Grammar and Literature through Verb Study

  Nadine Cowan Dyer and Gladys Garner Leithauser

• Practical Piaget in the Classroom

  Christy Hammer

• Some Principles of Question-Design

  Dan Gutteridge

• Dante and Oedipus Go to Atlanta, Georgia

  Richard Calisch

• The Value of Impertinence

  Christine H. Nute

• Driving Cars, Thievery, and Basic Skills

  Tom Romano

• Writing for Audiences and Occasions

  Fran Lehr and Bob Lange

• Librarians and English Teachers: Part II

• Our Readers Write: Successful Uses of AV

• Recommended: Heinrich von Kleist

  John Pfordresher

• Too Good to Miss

  Ruth M. Stein

• Departments

• Teaching Reading: Theory and Practice

  Maia Pank Mertz

• English, Art, and Haiku

  Becky Duckro and Joan McKee

• The Rich Diversity of the New YA Novel

  Dick Abrahamson

• Rethinking Composing

  Lillian S. Bridwell

• Talking through the Writing Process

  Joyce Armstrong Carroll

• Quiet on the Set

  Helen Wyatt

• NCTE to You

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