English Journal, Vol. 74, No. 1, January 1985

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page: Becoming a More Effective Book Protester

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Worries about Censorship

  Lee Burress, Leanne Katz, Don Melichar, Robert C. Small

• Protecting Holden Caulfield and His Friends from the Censors

  Edward B. Jenkinson

• A Brief Bibliography on Censorship

  Ken Donelson

• Censorship, the Classroom, and the Electronic Environment

  David M. Considine

• Academic Freedom: A Guide to Major Court Cases

  Fran Lehr

• Censorship and "The Lottery"

  Edna Bogert

• Writing a Rationale for a Controversial Common Reading Book: Alice Walker's The Color Purple

  Pepper Worthington

• Star-Crossed Platonic Lovers, or Bowdler Redux

  Maureen F. Logan

• The Monuments of a Culture

  James D. Black

• Fireproof Your School with Writing

  John Kendall

• The Nation Responds, But How Significantly?

  Jeffrey L. Zorn

• Spoken Words: Quality Exposure to Vocabulary Concepts

  Steven Grubaugh

• The True Story of How Richard Cory's Bowling Pin Kids Broke 1,000 and Made Us Famous

  Charles W. Yerger

• A Few Blood Gurgling Screams: Accidental Humor from Student Detective Stories

  Chris Paulis

• Our Readers Write: Good Films for Classroom Use

• Recommended: Ring Lardner

  Gardner Kissack

• Oxymorons in Education

  James D. Black

• Too Good to Miss

  James L. Goff

• Departments

• Personal Response to Literature in Anthologies

  Mark Gulesian and Stephanie McConachie

• Peter Rabbit Battles the Censors

  Molly McLaurin

• A Brief But Troubled Season: Problems in YA Fiction

  Beth Nelms, Ben Nelms, and Linda Horton

• Two Exercises on Film Manipulation

  Alice Cross

• Poem: Oral Report

  s. f. caldwell

• Poem: A Space of Ignorance

  Jack E. Lorts

• Poem: November Stone Wall

  Christine Hemp

• Poem: Big Moment

  Jan Dunbar

• Poem: Simile

  Liz Newall

• Poem: Fringe Benefit

  Nancy Hayden

• Poem: I Want to Write

  James W. Cunningham

• Poem: Captive Audience

  Joyce Schelstraete

• NCTE to You

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