English Journal, Vol. 81, No. 4, April 1992

Table of Contents

Issue Theme: Adolescent Literature Comes of Age: From Little Women to Forever

• Covering EJ

• This World of English

• EJ Forum/Censorship and Selection, Freedom and Responsibility

• Pat Conroy's "Gutter Language": Prince of Tides in a Lowcountry High School

  Robert A. White

• Recommended Adolescent Literature: Avoiding Those Hidden "Secrets"

  Edwin D. Greenlee

• Selection or Censorship: Responses to Edwin Greenlee

  Arthea J. S. Reed, Hazel K. Davis, David M. La Mar, Barbara G. Samuels, and Leila Cristenbury

• Channel One/Misconceptions Three

  Hugh Rank

• Seventh-Grade Diplomats

  Nancy Lyles Durham

• EJ Focus/Adolescent Literature Comes of Age

• Gilligan's "Crisis of Connections": Contemporary Caribbean Women Writers

• Females Also Come of Age

  Alba Quifiones Endicott

• Young-Adult Literature: A Writer Strikes the Genre

  Steven VanderStaay

• Empowerment through Young-Adult Literature

  Belinda Y. Louie and Douglas H. Louie

• EJ Update/The Adolescent Novel in AP English: A Response to Patricia Spencer

  Tim McGee

• EJ Exchange/Reading Writers

• Student Metaphors for Themselves as Writers

  James C. McDonald

• In-Class Writing Conferences: Fine-Tuned Duets in the Classroom Ensemble

  Melanie Sperling

• EJ Update/It's Not That Simple: Some Teachers as Writers

  Bruce W. Robbins

• The Middle View/Reading Writers: A Success Story

• The Round Table/Soliciting and Using Student Evaluations of Teaching and Curriculum

• "How Am I Doin'?": The Importance of Evaluation in the Classroom

  Marvin Hoffman

• Books for the Teenage Reader/Something Old, Something New in Young-Adult Literature

  John H. Bushman and Kay Parks Bushman

• Booksearch/Still Good Reading: Adolescent Novels Written before 1967

• Resources and Reviews/We Are the World: Thinking Multicultural, Thinking Global

• Poetry

• Letters/Of Playboy, "Conferencing," Videos, Homelessness, and Spell Check

• Editorial Comment/Keepers of the Language

• NCTE to You

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