English Journal, Vol. 83, No. 1, January 1994

Table of Contents

• Covering EJ

• This World of English

• EJ Forum/Complexity and Confusion; Collegiality and Confidence

• The Familiar Made Curious: A Case for Hometown Interdisciplinary Studies

  Stephen Lafer and Stephen Tchudi

• Thoughtful Communities: Classroom Research in Higher Literacy

  Louann Reid and Richard VanDeWeghe

• EJ Focus/Media in the Middle

• A Defense of Using Pop Media in the Middle-School Classroom

  Mitzi Witkin

• Dances with Wolves: Lessons from Loo Ten Tant's Journal

  Lynne Dozier

• Teaching Film in the 1990s

  Richard H. Fehlman

• Symposium/Writing on Air: Television, Radio, and the Classroom

  Travis E. Jackson, Anthony Bencivenga, Lestra Litchfield, Richard T. Kosier, Candace A. Morgan, Tim McShane, and Bill Oates

• "News Links" to Literature: Bridging the Gap Between Literature and the News

  Rose C. Reissman

• EJ Exchange/Collaborative Writing: What the Students Say

• "English Isn't a Team Sport, Mrs. Brockman": A Response to Jeremy

  Elizabeth Blackburn Brockman

• Collaborative Voices: Reflections on the I-Search Project

  Mary Kaszyca and Angela M. Krueger

• Collaborative Research on Collaborative Writing

  Helen Dale

• Control and Cohesion: Collaborative Learning and Writing

  Romana P. Hillebrand

• The Round Table/Introducing Students to Live Theater

• Books for the Teenage Reader/The Tradition Continues: New Releases from Well-Known Authors

  John H. Bushman and Kay Parks Bushman

• Booksearch/A Feast of Books Published Since 1987

• Resources and Reviews/Reflective Practitioners, Effective Practitioners

  Edna L. Hussey

• Modern Poetry in the Classroom/Frog Nightmares and Other Points of View

  Mark Vogel with Janet Tilley

• Poetry

• Editorial Comment/The Last Four-Letter Word

• NCTE to You

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