English Journal, Vol. 77, No. 5, September 1988

Table of Contents

Issue Theme: Tapping Potential: English for the Minority Learner

• This World of English

• EJ Forum/Cross-Cultural Literacy

• Making a Home of One's Own: The Young in Cross-Cultural Fiction

  George Shannon

• Text and Context: Teaching Native American Literature

  Diane Long Hoeveler

• Stereotypes of American Indians in Adolescent Literature

  Nancy Lynn Carver

• EJ Focus: Tapping Potential: English for the Minority Learner

• Comparative Languages and Literatures: A Not So Wild Idea

  Charlotte Kendrick Brooks

• Images of Africa for American Students

  Barbara Wass Van Ausdall

• The Use of a Novel to Discuss Vietnamese Refugee Experiences

  Norma H. Mandel

• A Cross-Cultural Approach to Literacy: The Immigrant Experience

  Brenda M. Greene

• An Afrocentric Approach to Literature: Putting the Pieces Back Together

  Eileen Oliver

• Kids of Survival: Experiments in the Study of Literature

  Nicholas Paley

• A Profile of Carlos: Strengths of a Nonstandard Dialect Writer

  Linda Miller Cleary

• No More Sixes, Nines, and Red Lines: Peer Groups and Revision

  Gerry Sultan

• EJ Exchange: Beginnings; Teachers and Writers

• A New Class Is a New Class

  John P. Loonam

• Ten Reasons to Write for Your Students

  William J. Broz

• Ceremonies and Civics

  Rose Reissman

• The Myth of Measurable Improvement

  John Harmon

• EJ Update: Research: Two More Alternatives

  Marlene Shanks

• Rebuttal: The English Language Amendment

  Marjorie Ann Sucansky, Candette Gilner, and Trudy J. Sundberg

• Modern Poetry in the Classroom: Neighborhoods: Maya Angelou's "Harlem Hopscotch"

  Sister J. Eleanor Mayer, IHM

• The Round Table: What to Do on the First Day of Class

• Instructional Materials: Computers and Writers: Software and Other Resources

  Joanne Troutner

• Books for the Teenage Reader: Black Adolescent Novels in the Curriculum

  Arlene Harris Mitchell

• Booksearch: Books for Beginning Teachers' Professional Libraries

• Books for Teachers: "Surrounded by Madness": A Writing Teacher's Stories

  Robert E. Probst

• Research in the Classroom: Reciprocal Teaching: The Question Is the Thing

  Diane Ems

• Have You Read... ?

  Ted Hipple

• Poetry

• Editorial Comment: One Teacher's Resolution for the New Year

• NCTE toYou

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