Table of Contents
Issue Theme: Does Homework Help?
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Call for Manuscripts
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Abstract for this article is currently not available.
Keywords: Secondary
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From the Editor
Ken Lindblom
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Abstract for this article is currently not available.
Keywords: Secondary
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From the Secondary Section: Questioning Homework
Kay Parks Haas
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Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
Keywords: Secondary
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EJ Extra: The Five-Paragraph Essay and the Deficit Model of Education
Lil Brannon, Jennifer Pooler Courtney, Cynthia P. Urbanski, et al.
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“Speaking My Mind” essays, Writing Project colleagues explain why using the five-paragraph essay for teaching writing is ill-advised.
Keywords: Secondary
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EJ in Focus: Homework on Homework: Involving Students with a Controversial Issue
Ben F. Nelms
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As he suggests useful ways to talk and listen to students about homework, a veteran English teacher and teacher educator surveys the most significant current scholarship on the homework controversy.
Keywords: Secondary
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The Facebook Generation: Homework as Social Networking
Stacy M. Kitsis
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Rather than fight the lure of the Internet for teens, this high school teacher has found ways to harness students’ interests by creating electronic homework assignments.
Keywords: Secondary
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Death of the 3"× 5" Note Cards
Dani Weber and Mike Smithmier
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A high school student and her teacher tell the story of how they brought a traditional research paper strategy into the 21st century.
Keywords: Secondary
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Homework and the Gradual Release of Responsibility: Making “Responsibility” Possible
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
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Combining practical suggestions with references to research, Fisher and Frey help teachers encourage students to take ownership of their assignments.
Keywords: Secondary
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Doing Our Homework on Homework: How Does Homework Help?
Buffy Sallee and Neil Rigler
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Over 180 students were surveyed to enable these high school teachers to rethink what works for homework and what doesn’t.
Keywords: Secondary
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Twenty in a Year! Discovering a Prince in a Library of Frogs
Amanda Stovall
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This first-year English teacher made a deal with her students: No other homework this year, if you read 20 books on your own. Did it work?
Keywords: Secondary
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Constructing Complexity: Using Reading Levels to Differentiate Reading Comprehension Activities
Declan FitzPatrick
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An English teacher turned curriculum coordinator updates Hillocks’s reading levels to create a method for improving students’ reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills.
Keywords: Secondary
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Encouraging Student Voice in Academic Writing
Rebecca Gemmell
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This twelfth-grade English teacher couldn’t help but dread grading piles of students’ essays, until she began to employ Writer’s Notebooks in her class.
Keywords: Secondary
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“[T]his book of odd tales / which transform the Brothers Grimm”: Teaching Anne Sexton’s Transformations
Karen A. Keely
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A high school English teacher finds Sexton’s retold fairy tales can spark students’ imaginations while helping them learn to analyze literature.
Keywords: Secondary
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Advanced Placement Courses Put the Squeeze on English Electives
Peter Daddone
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Why is enrollment in his successful journalism course waning? This school newspaper adviser gets the story.
Keywords: Secondary
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Deployment: A Series of Haikus (Poem)
Christopher P. Collins
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Abstract for this article is currently not available.
Keywords: Secondary
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Eternal Lines (Poem)
E. Alex Pierce
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Abstract for this article is currently not available.
Keywords: Secondary
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No One Reported Her Missing (a retirement fantasy) (Poem)
Nancy Krim
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Abstract for this article is currently not available.
Keywords: Secondary
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Adolescents and Texts: Overserved or Underserved? A Focus on Adolescents and Texts
Alfred W. Tatum, Editor
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"Adolescents and Texts" focuses on adolescent literacy and the teaching of reading in high school and middle school.
Keywords: Secondary
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Mentoring Matters: Retaining Quality Teachers Is the Real Test
Thomas M. McCann and Larry Johannessen, Editors
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"Mentoring Matters" focuses on effective ways to support new English teachers and student teachers.
Keywords: Secondary
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Off the Shelves: Catch a Rising YA Star
Mark Letcher, Editor
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"Off the Shelves" discusses new young adult literature and explores ways of teaching YA texts in middle and high school English classes.
Keywords: Secondary
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Research for the Classroom: Formative Assessment: Can You Handle the Truth?
Julie Gorlewski, Editor
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"Research for the Classroom" publishes mini-studies of ELA classroom practices and suggests ways in which high school and middle school English teachers may study the effectiveness of their pedagogy.
Keywords: Secondary
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Success with ELLs: Modifying Lessons for English Language Learners
Margo DelliCarpini, Editor
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"Success with ELLs" suggests effective approaches to teaching English language learners in ways that can be of benefit to all students in mainstream middle and high school English classes.
Keywords: Secondary
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Speaking My Mind: Prompt Attention: What I Learned from the Plagiarists
Barry Gilmore
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“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Keywords: Secondary
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Speaking My Mind: Stupid Questions
Jeffrey Hudson
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“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Keywords: Secondary
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