English Journal - Volume 114, Issue 2, 2024

This column gives high school teachers suggestions for inviting students to enter into meaningful discussion in an educational landscape that pushes technology and a society that has become increasingly disconnected from face-to-face discourse.

When teachers write with students, the classroom becomes a community of writers who inspire each other.

This final article in a special series on the “science of reading” movement contends that secondary ELA teachers should recognize the shared foundations between the movement and censorship efforts.

The five young adult honor visual texts of 2023 offer us tremendous stories in both pictures and words in the genres of realistic fiction, memoir, and historical nonfiction.

Miles Morales Suspended by Jason Reynolds, an author whose work is frequently banned, can be positioned in English classrooms to teach about contemporary attacks on Black literature through book bans.

This article outlines a rationale for teaching the Holocaust in the secondary English language arts classroom and provides examples from a middle school classroom.

The article presents three contemporary novel studies—including practical worksheets and activities— for English teachers to acknowledge and enrich students’ understandings of their experiences of the pandemic era, as well as to teach coping strategies that will help students through trauma.

A maximally human form of close reading— historically informed yet reformulated for the twenty-first century— may help literature teachers respond to the challenges of political polarization and artificial intelligence.

In the face of book bans and attempts to control classroom discourse, one educator provides suggestions for teachers to practice bravery for the sake of their students and the teaching profession.

English teacher-researchers involved in an inquiry group share how they use digital discourse for deeper purposes in diverse classrooms.

The authors share a two-week unit related to climate change that they created and implemented using a critical media literacy framework.

This article explores the role of ChatGPT in a high school English classroom and discusses how it can be used as a tool of inspiration and assistance in the writing process while maintaining student engagement and authorship.

This poetic short story offers readers a way into the visceral reality of living and teaching through censorship.

For three early career ELA teachers, disciplinary understanding and vision necessitate seeking small wins as they become powerful advocates for students and work in support of the communities they serve.

Peaches Hash reflects on how educators might use portraiture, an arts-based methodology, for research and knowledge construction.