English Journal, Vol. 75, No. 7, November 1986

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Stereotypes and Educators

  Jon Larson, Richard Whitworth, Murray J. Ferguson, Sharon M.Collins

• The Hidden Agendas in Writing across the Curriculum

  Stephen Tchudi

• A Basic Incompetence in the Defining of Basic Competencies

  James Sledd

• Of Fox Paws and Menage a Trois

  Brenda Walton Fazio

• Thank You, John

  Irvin Peckham

• The English Teacher's Tale: A Parable

  Mary Roessler

• Why I'm Sorry I Don't Teach English

  Carol L. Skolnick

• Traditional New England in Young Adult Literature

  Susan Monroe Nugent

• Nothing New

  Rick Monroe

• Language and Estrangement: Lessons from the People's Republic of China

  Howard B. Tinberg

• An Eagerness to Survive

• The English Curriculum and Current Trends in Publishing

  Lynne Gentry

• Hark, I Hear the Cannon Roar

• Frankenstein in the Classroom

  Nancy Hayden

• My Strangest Learning Experience or, Dr. Savage, Man against Time

  Gladys V. Veidemanis

• Journalism in the English Classroom

  Richard Koch

• When the Process of Writing Becomes a Tool for Learning

  Hilary Taylor Holbrook and Wendy F. Weiner

• Recommended: Ryunosuke Akutagawa

  Patrick J. O'Connor

• Too Good to Miss

  Harriet Marsh

• Departments

• User-Friendly Writing Books

  Patricia P. Kelly, Beatrice Naff, and Edgar H. Thompson

• Through the Poem Lightly

  Marlene Birkman

• Some Australian Books for Young Adults

  Sheilah Allen

• A Hopeless Romantic

  Laurence Boggess

• i Before e Except after-what??

  Dan Donlan

• Poem: For My Student, Dead in a Car Crash

  Antonia Lewandowski

• Poem: Working Out

  Judith Bradshaw Brown

• Poem: Mrs. Roger's Science Class

  Patrick B. Mikulec

• Poem: I Dream Poems

  Linda Bohrer Harter

• Poem: Still Learning My Colors at 33

  Gerry Foote

• Poem: Sweet Revenge

  Hal Heaberlin

• Poem: Outside (Or My Own Rum Running)

  Norma Walrath

• Poem: The Perils of the High Wire

  Susan DiMaina

• Poem: Studies

  Andrea Brownstein

• NCTE to You

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