English Journal, Vol. 80, No. 4, April 1991

Table of Contents

Issue Theme: Writing the Past: Poetry, Memory, and History/The Art of the Biographer

• This World of English

• Issues in English/Reading, Writing, and Reflecting

  Carole Williams

• EJ Forum/Writing the Past: Poetry, Memory, and History

• One Writer's Curriculum

  Donald M. Murray

• Poets on Poetry: One Way to Write a Poem

  Robert W. Blake

• Poetry: Reinventing the Past, Rehearsing the Future

  Linda M. Christensen

• Rebuttal/Masks, Risks, and the Writing of Poetry

  Dominic Belmonte and Nancy Gorrell

• EJ Focus/The Art of the Biographer

• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens We Found Our Own

  Martha A. Donovan and Marissi E. Walsh

• Auto/Biography of the Oppressed: The Power of Testimonial

  Allen Carey-Webb

• The Life of a Seventh Grader: Writing a Memoir

  Joanne S. Gillespie

• The Middle View/Writing Our Own Narratives

• A Multi-Genre Approach to the Art of the Biographer

  Barbara Bowen

• Ray Charles Has Been in My Classroom

  Carol Williams Wahlenmayer

• Audit Them: Biographies, Autobiographies, and Other Nonfiction

  Ken Hogarty

• EJ Exchange/April Inventory

• Parents Writing with Students

  Patricia S. Davis

• EJ Update/Show Off & Tell: Another Look at Teachers Writing with Their Students

  Dale Haskell

• EJ at Eighty/The Fourth Decade: International Crisis

• The Natural: A Natural Way to End the Year

  Arlene Pullen

• John Dollar: Marianne Wiggins' Anti-Utopian Novel

  Gail V. Dohrmann

• Banning the Excerpts: The New Fanatic Faction in the English Profession

  Wanda Schindley

• Did I Miss Anything?

  Rose Marie Lynch

• A Nearly Post-Mortem: On Course Evaluations from Students

  Debby Larwood

• The Round Table/Promoting Teacher Renewal

• Books for the Teenage Reader/A Bouquet of Poetry, Short Stories, Nonfiction, and Picture Books

  Elizabeth A. Belden and Judith M. Beckman

• Booksearch/The Fine Art of Teaching: Professional Books of the 1980s

• Resources and Reviews/ Classics for a Dollar: Dover's New Paperback Series

  Robert G. Wright

• Research and Practice/Teaching Poetic Forms: Classroom Practice and New Formalists' Challenge

  William Rice

• Poetry

• Editorial Comment/The Party Line

• NCTE to You

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