English Journal, Vol. 76, No. 2, February 1987

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: Occult Literature

  Tim Scannell, Sheila Coghill, Katherine Bailey, Sharon M. Collins

• Dear Author-My Teacher Is Making Me Write This

  Lois Duncan

• Why Study American Literature? Here's Why!

  Carol S. Anderson Gibson

• Letters of Recommendation

  Marguerite Kownslar

• Life without Scan-Tron: Tests as Thinking

  Richard Posner

• Must Study Hard-Work Hard!

  Stephen G. Fantine

• Adolescent Experience as Shakespearean Drama

  Marue E. Walizer

• Gatsby as a Drowned Sailor

  Margaret Lukens

• Looking Behind with an Eye on the Future

  Beth Dakelman-Moroney

• Something There Is That Doesn't Love a Dissertation, That Wants It Filed Away

  Terrence D. Earls

• Believing in the Public Schools Is No Game

  John P. Loonam

• J. C. Tressler-A Brief Memoir

  Henry I. Christ

• Overcoming the I-Don't-Know-Much-about-Poetry-but-I-Know-What-I-Like Syndrome

  Janet Sisk Streepey

• The Cutler Playwrights Festival

  Marian Galbraith-Jones and Kay Print Janney

• Close Encounters of the First Kind: Teaching the Poem at the Point of Utterance

  Gordon M. Pradl

• An Interview with John Dixon

  William Durbin

• How to Behave on an Accrediting Team

  Henry P Maloney

• The Finger of the Moon

  Mike Pope

• Some Lessons from a Short Story

  J. W. Patrick Creber

• Recommended: Anne Tyler

  Margaret Ferry

• Too Good to Miss

  Stephen Tchudi

• Departments

• Content Reading and the Recreation of Meaning

  Richard T. Graham

• "Old Man Coyote Makes the World": Using Native American Tales

  Francis E. Kazemek, Muriel Radebaugh and Pat Rigg

• Of Survival, School, Wars, and Dreams: Nonfiction that Belongs in English Classes

  Richard E Abrahamson and Betty Carter

• Chariots of Fire: King Arthur Revisited

  Fred Kramer

• What Our Students Taught Us about Paper Marking

  Robert E. Land, Jr. and Sandra Evans

• Poem: Inguisition

  William Crago

• Poem: Poetry Pate

  Charles Ghigna

• Poem: Graduation Gift

  Joe B. Lawrence

• Poem: Housman

  Beth Vardon

• Poem: Growing

  Brenda Dales

• NCTE to You

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