English Journal - Volume 48, Issue 6, 1958

The author answers the question which forms her title by identifying five aims of English instruction. Miss Erickson, who is head of the Language Arts Department, Ballard High School, Seattle, read this paper at the 1958 convention of the National Council of Teachers of English.

The opening of the new school year is an appropriate time, also, for especial concern with the status of the English teacher. Dr. Pooley’s discussion of a desired status amounts ultimately to a kind of “bill of rights” for the teacher of English. One of the nation’s great leaders in the teaching of English, Dr. Pooley is now chairman of the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies, University of Wisconsin.

This article presents a specifically-illustrated guide to the development of a thematic unit. Dr. Alwin, whose previous articles on unit construction have been well received, is a former high school teacher and now an associate professor of English at the Arizona State College, Flagstaff.

Miss Christopher, who last year was a beginning teacher in the Needham Broughton High School at Raleigh, North Carolina, is a good illustration of the well-worn adage, “learn by doing.” Neophyte teachers this year—and veterans, too—will be interested both in what Miss Christopher learned and what she did.

This is the fifth annual list compiled by Dr. Searles, professor of English and education at the University of Wisconsin. Readers are asked to refer to the Journal when ordering from the list. Reprints of this list, as well as of the 1958 list, are available from the NCTE, 704 South Sixth Street, Champaign, Illinois, for 20ȼ.