English Journal, Vol. 72, No. 4, April 1983

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets

  Gus Franza, G. Robert Carlsen, Edmund J. Farrell, Driek Zirinsky

• Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle

  Felicity Hoffecker

• More Reflections

  Edward Lueders and Stephen N. Dunning

• Non-nonsexist Guidelines: A Happy Neutrality

  Frank Zepezauer

• Slouching towards Relevance, or What to Do with 1984 until 1984

  W. Russel Gray

• The Ordeal of Inservice Education: Confessions of a Paranoid Consultant

  Dan Donlan

• Teachers' Institutes: Are Teachers Getting What They Want?

  Robert Perrin

• School Book Selection: Procedures, Challenges, and Responses

  Larry Zenke and Margherite LaPota

• Censorship in the Schools: What's Moral about The Catcher in the Rye?

  June Edwards

• Why I Teach

  Charles W. Yerger

• Maintaining Momentum: Ensuring that the Concern for Writing Is Not One More Educational Fad

  Allan A. Glatthorn

• Real Teaching

  Irvin Peckham

• Coping with the Copiers

  Roger Sauer

• Interviewing: A Teaching Technique I've Looked at from Both Sides Now

  Pam Davenport

• In the Ointments, A Few Flies

  Joan Cantwell

• Forging a First: The Oxford Curriculum

  Dan Wallace

• Moving up from High School to Middle School

  Andrea R. Fishman

• Ethical Ambiguity and the Teaching of the Holocaust

  James F. Farnham

• Using Science Fiction to Build Research Skills

  Eugene Zasadinski

• Our Readers Write

• Recommended: Susan Hill

  Mary Jane Reed

• Too Good To Miss

  Thomas Brownell

• Departments

• Reevaluating English Curricula

  Maia Pank Mertz, Anthony Petrosky, and Marcia Farr

• As the World Turns... Revolving into Involving

  Teddi Baer

• Young Adult Novels in the Classroom?

  Barbara G. Samuels

• A Quiet Form of Research

  James Britton

• Publishing: The Writer's Touchdown

  Joyce Armstrong Carroll

• Media Probes

  David Burmester

• Poem: Linda

  Wilma Bell

• Poem: Escape

  Jim Thomas

• Poem: The Editor

  Allen Lawrence

• Poem: Star Children

  Sue Scalf

• Poem: Soundings

  Linda Opyr

• Poem: For Barbara (on the Death of Her Student)

  Roz Young

• Poem: Learning to Write

  Richard K. Harmston

• Poem: A Ballad

  Andrew Wineman

• NCTE to You

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