English Journal, Vol. 74, No. 8, December 1985

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: English Teachers and Moral Values

  Tom Albritton, Patricia Turnbull, Carol Dreyer Yeazell, Carl P. Dolan

• The Current Crisis in Literary Education

  James R. Squire

• Literacy and the English Teacher: Observations and Suggestions

  Ronald E. Smith

• Fifteen Hints on Teaching Greek and Roman Literature

  Rudolph Masciantonio

• Literature's Influence on Young Adult Attitudes, Values, and Behavior, 1975 and 1984

  Mary Beth Culp

• The Silent Farewell

  June Steffensen Hagen

• Stranger Than Truth

  Mark Rowan

• The Joke Is, I'm Not Laughing

  Raymond Terry

• Our Readers Write: Classroom Humor

• Recommended: Willard R. Espy

  Theodore W. Hipple

• Too Good to Miss

  Susan D. Tally

• Departments

• Extraordinary Teachers-And a Few Other Subjects

  Leila Christenbury and Anne Westcott Dodd

• 1985 Books for Young Adults Poll

  John W. Conner, Kathleen M.Tessmer, Ann Conner Johnson, Alyce J. Toloui, Ann M. Drew, Gayle M. Graeff

• Supplementing Punctuation Workbooks

  William Gribbin

• Television and Our Humanity

  David A. England

• Reading, Literature, and Writing from Writers' Perspectives

  Patricia J. Cianciolo

• Indexes

• Poem: Committee Meeting

  Marjorie L. Sallee

• Poem: Summery Paragraph

  Dan Pyle

• Poem: Surviving Freshman Comp.

  Richard Amidon

• NCTE to You

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