English Journal, Vol. 76, No. 4, April 1987

Table of Contents

• Editors' Page

• News and the English Profession

• Facets: The Future of English Teaching

  Nancy McHugh, Miles Myers, Charles Suhor, Mary E. Getty

• Tapping Teacher Potential Using Tapping Potential

  Eileen Oliver

• YA Afro-American Fiction: An Update for Teachers

  Carolyn M. Corson

• Your State Can Do It, Too

  Ted Hipple

• Everybody Needs One

  Dee G. Post

• Computers and the Humanist: The Myth and Reality

  Michael Clark

• An Approach to "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"

  Eleanore M. Britton

• Farang for a Day, Or 200 Students in One Class-You Must Be Joking!

  Karen L. Larsen

• A Beautiful Writing Assignment for Sophomores

  Gomer James

• On First Seeing a Copy of Keats's Life-Mask

  Joel Haefner

• Guyfun and Galfun in the Classroom

  Erik Wessler

• Lost Rites

  Anne Atanosian

• Starting a Weekly TV Show (Cable) with No Money Down

  Dennis G. Kraynak, Sr.

• Classroom Bond

  Mike Cool

• Why I Love Teaching the Gifted, Hated Seeing Brazil, and Am Dropping A Tale of Two Cities

  Sylvia Sarrett

• Oh, Thank Heaven for Comic Strip Bubbles

  John H. Marshall

• Let Them Beg You for Grammar

  Mary L. Seay

• Our Readers Write: A Wish for English Teachers

• Recommended: Cynthia Voigt

  Linda K. Shadiow

• Too Good to Miss

  Kay Beasley

• Departments

• Pick of the Pack: Four Years of Columns

  Leila Christenbury

• Gathering and Sharing for Homework

  Teddi Baer

• Books Too Good to Miss-That We Almost Missed

  Ben Nelms and Beth Nelms

• Film as Documentation, Social Comment, Satire, and Spoof

  Carole Cox

• Teachers as Researchers?

  Margaret Queenan

• Interactive Fiction

  Bruce C. Appleby and Barbara Harris

• Poems: I Write Dedications/Quiet

  Douglas Jones/Nancy C. Thomas

• Poem: CuisinArt

  Allan Sheldon

• Poem: Bitter Milk

  Robert Cowser

• Poem: The Price of Change

  Al Ortolani

• Poem: Class Notes

  Robert Miltner

• Poem: Better

  Maryann Eads

• Poem: Portrait of the Artist as Teacher (or the Teacher as Artist)

  Daniel J. Cox

• Poem: At St. Jude's

  Dale Haskell

• NCTE to You

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