English Journal, Vol. 75, No. 6, October 1986

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Literature-Common Background vs. Cultural Diversity

  James D. Black, M. A. Jennings, Tim Scannell, Kay Jacob

• Education by Criticism

  Stephen L. Tanner

• The Biography: Teach It from the Inside Out

  Scott Johnson

• The Risk of Reading

  Alan W. Luckey

• Report from the Institute: Notes on the Teaching of Literature

  Alex T. Gruenberg

• Mom, Wolfgang, and Me: Adolescent Literature, Critical Theory, and the English Classroom

  Robert E. Probst

• Fourth Period Discovers Hester as Mother: Hawthorne's Mother?

  Eleanor Heginbotham

• The Expectant Reader in Theory and Practice

  Lois Josephs Fowler and Kathleen McCormick

• Unsolicited Testimonials

  Jeff Love

• To Be or Not to Be: Issues on Changes in Literature Anthologies

  J. Kenneth Bradford

• Reading Fiction with Structur(alism)e

  Patrick M. Scanlon

• Mark Twain and the American Myth

  Richard Calisch

• Three Sovereigns for Sarah: Sorcery and Sources

  Charlotte Miller

• Why I Teach Literature (Less) and Get More Out of It

  Barry Wallace

• Recommended: Frank D. Gilroy

  Catherine Reynolds

• Too Good to Miss

  Elaine P. Adams

• Our Readers Write: Handling Unusual Class Sizes

• Departments

• Teacher Voices

  Leila Christenbury

• Report Card Comments: They Would if We Could but We Can't So They Don't

  Judy Forman

• Sons and Brothers: Men and Boys in YA Books

  Ben Nelms, Beth Nelms, Greg Grupe, and Bob Steffes

• Literature on Film and Film on Literature

  Carole Cox

• Tests, Writing, and Computers

  Bruce C. Appleby, Rick Dollieslager, and Isaiah Smithson

• Another Job for English Teachers: Showing Colleagues How to Teach Writing

  Ruth Knudson

• Poem: Mind Snack

  Anne L. Gautreau

• Poem: Poem

  Elizabeth Steen

• Poem: Downstaged

  Sally Tucker

• Poem: Suburban Clytemnestra

  Beverly Baker

• Poem: Computer Expert

  Joyce Kinkead

• Poem: On Contemplating Retirement

  Mary B. McCallum

• Poem: Complaint: Dream Journal Assignment

  Sr. Helena Brand

• Poem: due thursday

  Joseph H. Ball

• NCTE to You

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