English Journal, Vol. 72, No. 2, February 1983

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Bait/Rebait: There's Nothing Dirty about a Good Clean Romance

  Margaret Dodson and Sharon Wigutoff

• Censorship of Student Publications

  Larry L. Kraus

• Twenty-Nine Things I Know about Bumby Hemingway

  Brooke Workman

• Poetry, Myths, and Aesthetics

  Janice D. Cavallaro

• Women as Purveyors of the English Curriculum: Speculations on the Genesis and Destiny of Miss Fidditch

  Margaret B. Fleming

• Writing: A Means to Meaning or How I Got from the Tastee Donut Shop to the Inn of the Seventh Mountain

  William Strong

• On Becoming an Assertive Teacher

  Gwen Haley

• Nobody Ever Said This Would Be Easy

  J. Daniel Rudy

• Dancing on the Stage in Your Head

  Nancy Goodwin

• Integrity in Teaching Native American Literature

  Anna Lee Stensland

• What? You Worry? Twenty-Five Ways an Unprepared Teacher Can Look Creative and Get Away with It

  J. Wesley Miller

• Essentials of English: A Document for Reflection and Dialogue

• When Something Old Is Something New

  Arthur H. Bell

• An English English Teacher

  Margaret James

• Tools for Developing Prewriting Skills

  Raymond J. Rodrigues

• Before the Flood: Composition Teaching in America 1637-1900

  Thomas Rodd, Jr.

• Teaching Anti-Woman Classics with a Clear Conscience

  Darlene G. Larson and Patricia Wright

• Teaching the Disadvantaged: Teacher as Storyteller

  Joyce Dyer

• A Blooming Taxonomy of Teachers

  Barbara and John Yelverton

• We Teachers of Serendip

  Daniel Kain

• Friction, Non-Friction, and Librarians

  Burgess Needle

• Our Readers Write: What's a Good Speech Activity that Works in the English Classroom?

• Recommended: Annie Dillard

  Joseph DeRoller

• Too Good to Miss

  Patricia W. Hamilton

• Departments

• Whys and Hows: A Potpourri of Theory and Practice

  Maia Pank Mertz

• Poetry in Junior High?

  Anne Drakopoulos

• What Are Middle School Students Really Reading?

  Dick Abrahamson

• Understanding and Using Research

  John S. Mayher

• Helping Black High School Students Speak Standard English

  Daisy F. Reed

• Mainstreaming Media: 101 Ways to Use Media in the English Classroom

  David Burmester

• Poem: The Principle of It

  Christine Swanberg

• Poem: Poetry Class

  Lois Hirshkowitz

• Poem: On Composing a Poem

  Richard Corbin

• Poem: Thank You

  John V. Pyle

• NCTE to You

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