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English Journal - Volume 107, Issue 2, 2017
Volume 107, Issue 2, 2017
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High School Matters: Celebrating the Heart of Life
Author(s): Dan BrunoMembers of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
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2016 Honor List of Prize-Winning YA Books
Author(s): Don L. F. Nilsen, Alleen Nilsen and James Blasingame Jr.Authors review their selections for YA books published in 2016. The Honor List is meant to be shared with students, and this year is especially relevant for colleagues who teach history and social studies.
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“Give Sorrow Words”: A Lesson Learned
Author(s): Carol Aten Frow and Miranda FilakThe authors discuss how teachers can help students to grieve through the power of writing.
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Ethical Concerns of Using Texts Involving Death in the English Classroom
Author(s): Eric EkholmIn this article, the author uses lesson reflection as a way to consider ethical issues that accompany teaching with texts that include death. More specifically, the article examines the relationship between moral education and analytic or skills-based education.
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Everything’s Jake
Author(s): Genée Ciurus MajorThis article explores the compassion created when students ask essential questions about life and death. The author describes her personal journey with her students as they experience what it means to be human.
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Dealing with and Writing about Death
Author(s): Gregory ShaferThis article focuses on the death of the author’s sister, the discussion and project that it inspired, and the many essays that emanated from the experience.
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One Teacher’s Experiences: Responding to Death through Language
Author(s): Lisa BeckelhimerThe author argues that English teachers are in a unique position to respond to death through writing, reading, and speaking. She describes four experiences and offers specific, language-based responses guided by experience and literature.
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Associative Mourning: Learning to Lose through Literature
Author(s): Brittany Rose CollinsThis article reviews current literature regarding the practices of reading and writing about death. Findings are aligned with the author’s personal experience of learning to lose through literature, tracking her progression from student to educator in relation to literary mourning.
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The Absolutely True Diary of My Accidental (and Successful) Unit Studying Death
Author(s): Lori D. UngemahThe author argues that research in English education needs further exploration on the purposeful implementation of grief, death, and dying within English curriculum.
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Teaching Night: Humanizing the Story of the Holocaust
Author(s): Elizabeth Spalding and Brandi CaltonThis article offers suggestions for teaching Night in ways that engage students, challenge them to think critically, but most importantly enable them to develop empathy for the victims of the Holocaust, thereby combatting Elie Wiesel’s archenemy—indifference.
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Liberatory Grief: The One Truly Serious Pedagogical Problem
Author(s): Eric S. PiotrowskiThe author explores how regular writing practice and conscious conversations help students struggling with loss, grief, trauma, and myriad associated difficulties including anxiety and self-harm.
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Continuous Becoming: Moving toward Mastery: Exploring Capital Punishment with One-to-One Technology
Author(s): Tracy Tensen“Continuous Becoming: Moving toward Mastery” offers suggestions, ideas, and experiences to help novice and veteran teachers discover their own road maps toward mastery.
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Disabling Assumptions: Using Shakespeare to Debunk Myths about Disability
Author(s): Jeff BlairThis column explores how paying attention to disability—both to the rich contributions made by people with disabilities and to the sometimes negative attitudes in society that can interfere with those contributions—can foster classroom interactions that are more democratic, more inclusive, and more equitable.
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Volume 114 (2024)
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Volume 113 (2023 - 2024)
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Volume 112 (2022 - 2023)
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Volume 111 (2021 - 2022)
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Volume 110 (2020 - 2021)
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Volume 109 (2019 - 2020)
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Volume 108 (2018 - 2019)
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Volume 107 (2017 - 2018)
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Volume 106 (2016 - 2017)
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Volume 105 (2015 - 2016)
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Volume 104 (2014 - 2015)
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