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English Journal - Volume 96, Issue 5, 2007
Volume 96, Issue 5, 2007
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From the Secondary Section: Leadership for Literacy: Teachers Raising Expectations and Opportunities
Author(s): Nicole A. Chilla, Diane Waff and Heleny CookMembers of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
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Speaking My Mind: The Importance of High School Debate
Author(s): Diana Hooley“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
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Teacher to Teacher: What Do You Enjoy about Coaching, Directing, or Advising?
“Teacher to Teacher” provides a forum for teachers to share ideas, materials, and activities.
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Yearbook 101: A How-To Guide for Teaching the Yearbook Basics
Author(s): Christina M. VettrainoFinding few resources on how to teach a yearbook class, high school teacher Christina M. Vettraino set out to create her own. She offers a detailed, classroom-tested approach to producing an award-winning yearbook. Students on the staff and in the yearbook class learn the purpose and the concept of a unifying theme, graphic design, writing, and photography. In addition, they learn responsibility and professionalism by working under pressure and meeting deadlines.
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So You’ve Been Asked to Advise a Student Publication
Author(s): Janet EwellWriter’s workshops provide students with the appropriate processes they need to learn about publishing and First Amendment freedoms when collaborating on a school newspaper. High school teacher and journalism adviser Janet Ewell outlines the structures students can use for learning to find, research, develop, respond to, and reflect on story ideas.
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When English Language Arts, Basketball, and Poetry Collide
Author(s): W. Douglas BakerA former high school teacher’s reflections on the connections between basketball and poetry suggest the significance of extracurricular activities for teachers and students. W. Douglas Baker recounts how he guided students to make connections among “the collision of activities in their lives” by delving into the practices and discourses of three disciplinary communities—the basketball team, the Poetry Club, and the English classroom.
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Making Meaningful Theater in the Empty Space
Author(s): Joseph M. Shosh and Jennifer A. WescoeAs teacher-facilitators, Joseph M. Shosh and Jennifer A. Wescoe emphasize the educational value of theater. To promote student leadership of a production, students audition for roles on and off stage and contribute to the technical aspects of the production through “crew days,” from which they build community and develop a sense of respect for the complexity of production. Additionally, Shosh and Wescoe implement writing activities to help students understand and develop their characters.
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Literary Magazines: To Censor or Not?
Author(s): Robert C. MossmanHigh school teacher Robert C. Mossman asserts that literary magazines reflect and elevate school communities’ values. As adviser of his school literary magazine, Mossman encourages students to uphold certain standards for decency, while helping students learn to distinguish between original writing that is specific and thoughtful and writing that merely glorifies difficult issues, such as sex, drugs, and violence.
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How Coaching Forensics Made Me a Better Writing Coach
Author(s): Lynette WilliamsonHigh school teacher and forensics coach Lynette Williamson describes ways to teach writing—including on-demand essays—that draw on successful practices she developed in coaching. Students learn the importance of using personal conviction and qualified thesis statements to build arguments, as well as learning “The Debater Four-Step,” an effective concession and refutation technique.
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Facilitating a Summer Reading Book Group Program
Author(s): Ginger Goldman Malin, Christine Iacullo and Melissa DrapatskySummer book groups enhance and sustain student literacy behaviors over the break, making available an enjoyable social forum for critical-thinking and critical-reading practices to occur naturally. Significantly, the book groups grant faculty and students an informal space to connect meaningfully through reflective discussion of texts.
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Wondering through Teaching
Author(s): Jo-Anne KerrJo-Anne Kerr relies on teacher-research practices to discover insights for making her classes more beneficial to “resistant learners.” She shares her experience of observing two previously struggling male vocational-technical students, conducting informal and formal interviews with them throughout the year, and collecting data from their portfolios and reading logs to enrich her support for them and her understanding of their motivation for learning.
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What Is Right With This Picture?
Author(s): Mike StraccoIn a one-week voluntary summer course, students aged twelve to seventeen eagerly take ownership of their composing processes, learning to connect terms such as focus and point of view to the visual and verbal acts of photography and writing. High school teacher Mike Stracco grapples with how to channel the vitality of his summer course into students’ classroom experiences during the school year.
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Invitation to All: Welcoming Gays and Lesbians into My Classroom and Curriculum
Author(s): Patricia L. DanielEncouraging teachers to create safe schools by challenging homophobic remarks, using inclusive language and materials, and providing literature that depicts gay and lesbian characters and concerns, Patricia L. Daniel recommends a list of resources and strategies for communicating to students and the school community an “acceptance of all people in the classroom.”
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Of Flattery and Thievery: Reconsidering Plagiarism in a Time of Virtual Information
Author(s): P. L. ThomasP. L. Thomas provides a framework for discussing plagiarism and calls on us to avoid overly simplified policies. After considering various perspectives on intent and the purposes of documentation, Thomas advocates developing standard definitions and guidelines for plagiarism in the department or the classroom. We should also offer professional development opportunities to help teachers transfer abstract concepts of plagiarism to classroom instruction, discussion, and assignments.
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Approaches to Reading with Multiple Lenses of Interpretation
Author(s): Melissa TroiseHigh school teacher Melissa Troise challenges students to recognize the relationships that exist between literary theories, such as Marxism, feminism, and postcolonialism, and urges students to expand their contexts for reading texts by accessing and combining theories. Troise believes theory provides students with the potential to better understand unfamiliar ideas and ideologies, even if they may not agree with them.
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Research Matters: How Does Assessment Affect Creativity?
Author(s): Rick VanDeWeghe“Research Matters” provides teachers with review and application of research that illuminates the daily concerns and activities of English language arts teachers and classrooms.
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Volumes & issues
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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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Volume 103 (2013 - 2014)
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Volume 102 (2012 - 2013)
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Volume 101 (2011 - 2012)
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Volume 100 (2010 - 2011)
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Volume 99 (2009 - 2010)
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Volume 98 (2008 - 2009)
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Volume 97 (2007 - 2008)
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Volume 96 (2006 - 2007)
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Volume 95 (2005 - 2006)
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Volume 94 (2004 - 2005)
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Volume 93 (2003 - 2004)
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Volume 92 (2002 - 2003)
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Volume 91 (2001 - 2002)
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Volume 90 (2000 - 2001)
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Volume 89 (1999 - 2000)
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Volume 88 (1998 - 1999)
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Volume 87 (1998)
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Volume 86 (1997)
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Volume 85 (1996)
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Volume 84 (1995)
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Volume 83 (1994)
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Volume 82 (1993)
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Volume 81 (1992)
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Volume 80 (1991)
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Volume 79 (1990)
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Volume 78 (1989)
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Volume 77 (1988)
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Volume 76 (1987)
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Volume 75 (1986)
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Volume 57 (1968 - 1986)
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Volume 74 (1985)
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Volume 73 (1984)
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Volume 72 (1983)
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Volume 71 (1982)
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Volume 70 (1981)
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Volume 69 (1980)
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Volume 68 (1979)
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Volume 67 (1978)
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Volume 66 (1977)
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Volume 65 (1976)
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Volume 64 (1975)
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Volume 63 (1974)
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Volume 62 (1973)
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Volume 61 (1972)
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Volume 60 (1971)
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Volume 59 (1970)
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Volume 58 (1969)
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Volume 56 (1967)
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Volume 55 (1966)
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Volume 54 (1965)
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Volume 53 (1964)
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Volume 52 (1963)
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Volume 51 (1962)
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Volume 50 (1961)
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Volume 49 (1960)
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Volume 48 (1958 - 1959)
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Volume 1 (1912)
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