English Journal, Vol. 73, No. 6, October 1984

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Political Rhetoric and Its Place in the English Classroom

  Peter Sorensen, Howard H. Moon, Jr., Peter Trenouth, Don L. F. Nilsen

• Opting for "Newthink"-Interdisciplinary English in the Decades Ahead

  Denny Wolfe

• The Humanities and How to Think

  David H. Stringer

• Renewal of Spirit in Teaching and Myth

  Daniel A. Lindley, Jr.

• A Modest Proposal for the Improvement of American Education

  Paul J. Linnehan

• A Letter to James Baldwin

  Robert R. Olivier

• Values Education through D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

  Nancy R. Levy

• Why Competent Teachers Quit

  Barbara LeBar

• Curtains Up on Contemporary Plays

  Anthony L. Manna

• Mexican Poetry: An Introduction to a Culture

  Thomas A. Smith

• Keeping Current in Critical Theory

  R. Baird Shuman

• Confessions of a High School Newspaper Advisor

  David R. Osborn

• Our Readers Write: Good Plays for Classroom Reading

• Recommended: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Rafael C. Castillo

• Too Good to Miss

  John Van Domelen

• Stephen Crane Had a Beef with the World Too

  Robert E. Gomoll

• Departments

• American Education in the 80s

  Alan McLeod

• Studying Nonverbal Communication through Creative Dramatics

  Marjorie Fink Vargas

• Booktalking Seventeen Hundred Students at Once-Why Not?

  Pamela G. Spencer

• What Did You Say? I Was Listening to Your Tie

  Jill Scott

• Writing, Reviewing, and Revising

  Bruce C. Appleby

• Poem: Staff Development Meeting

  Judy Mednick

• Poem: Denver/NCTE 1983

  Mary Gill Wood

• Poem: Reaction to the Action Plan in Reaction to the Push for Excellence

  Darrell H. Garber

• Poem: Covert Reader

  David Schelhaas

• NCTE to You

* Journal articles are provided in PDF format and can be opened using the free Adobe® Reader® program or a comparable viewer. Click here to download and install the most recent version of Adobe Reader.