English Journal, Vol. 74, No. 2, February 1985

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Research You Wish Someone Would Do, Part II

  Allison Wilson, Sandra S. Williams, Gene Washington, Ellen E. Deep

• Teacher Excellence: A Contemporary Oxymoron?

  Daniel Dyer

• Levitation, Jokes, and Spin the Bottle: Contemporary Folklore in the Classroom-A Folklorist's View

  Elizabeth Radin Simons

• Levitation, Jokes, and Spin the Bottle: Contemporary Folklore in the Classroom-A Teacher's View

  Jane Juska

• Sabbaticals: A Time to Reflect, A Time of Discovery

  Norma D. Walrath

• Developing an Immunity to Sophomoric Plagiarism: Notetaking Skills

  Marjorie Fink Vargas

• First Harvest: Flannery O'Connor's "The Crop"

  Ruth Fennick

• Life without a Department Head: A Morale-ity Tale

  Gary Giannelli

• Goodbye to Camelot

  Carol C. Young

• Metamorphosis

  Linda L. Robinson

• Letter to Mrs. Castings

  Jason D. Eslinger

• Five Questions for the Study of Literature

  Morris Finder

• A Bird in the Hand and a Bird in the Bush: Using Proverbs to Teach Skills and Comprehension

  Marjorie H. Holden and Mimi Warshaw

• Earthseans and Earthteens

  Sheila Cunneen

• "Not life, but love in death": Oxymoron at the Thematic Heart of Romeo and Juliet

  C. Webster Wheelock

• To Die at the Top: A Comparison of Housman and Updike

  Katherine L. Denman

• Desperate in Peoria (How Come Everything We Read Has to Be So Depressing?)

  Paula Burns

• Harlequin Grammar: A True Classroom Romance

  Nancy Goodwin

• A Searching Question

  Eric H. Christenson

• The Literary Magazine as Class Project

  Anthony P. Colasurdo

• Have License, Will Travel

  Carlyn R. Horton

• Our Readers Write: Computer Software that Works

• Recommended: Wendell Berry

  Charles Fothergill

• Too Good to Miss

  Christina Haas

• Departments

• Borrowing from Books: Getting New Ideas

  Susan T. Bennett and Joan Shiring

• Teaching Poetry on the Reservation

  Myrna Lynn Vanderberg

• Not All Hearts and Flowers

  Elizabeth D. Nelms and Ben F. Nelms

• Dare to Use Adventure Games in the Language Arts Classroom

  Elaine Jarchow and Janey Montgomery

• Poem: Teacher, This Is Just to Say-A Variation on a Theme by William Carlos Williams

  Charles West

• Poem: For the Joads and Their Descendants

  Robert Cowser

• Poem: A Nurse (who works with dying patients)

  Keith Langdon

• Poem: Ex-Basketball Player

  John Updike

• Poem: To an Athlete Dying Young

  A. E. Housman

• Poem: Angel

  Lois Hirshkowitz

• NCTE to You

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