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Preface | |
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English Teachers | |
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Introduction | |
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Readings and Applications | |
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"A Target on the Blackboard" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Remembering Your English Teachers | |
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"Where's That Fairy Dust When You Need It?" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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What Makes an Effective English Teacher? | |
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Writing Assignment: Telling Your Story | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Reading Literature | |
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Introduction | |
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Readings and Applications | |
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"A Performing Art" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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A Look at Three Lesson Plans | |
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"Reader-Response Theory and the English Curriculum" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Working With Student Response | |
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"Making Time" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Adapting the Reading Workshop | |
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"Provocations" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Writing Assignment: A Literature Lesson | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Choosing Texts | |
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Introduction | |
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Readings and Applications | |
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"Canons to Right of Them, Canons to Left of Them, Canons in Front of Them, Volley'd and Thunder'd" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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The Process of Choosing | |
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"Academic Guidelines for Selecting Multiethnic and Multicultural Literature" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Dealing With Diversity | |
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"It's the THAT, Teacher" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Working With Young Adult Literature | |
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"Protecting Holden Caulfield and His Friends From the Censors" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Thinking About Censorship | |
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Writing Assignment: Building a Unit | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Teaching Writing | |
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Introduction | |
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Readings and Applications | |
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"Write Before Writing" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Finding and Exploring a Topic | |
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"Responding to Student Writing" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Working With Student Drafts | |
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"Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting Out Three Forms of Judgment" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Evaluating Student Writing | |
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"Process Writing and the Secondary School Reality: A Compromise" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Adapting the Writing Workshop | |
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"Teaching Poetry Writing to Adolescents: Models and Teaching Designs" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Reading and Writing Poetry | |
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Writing Assignment: Creating a Writing Assignment | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Teaching About Language | |
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Introduction | |
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Readings and Applications | |
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"Language Variation in the United States" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Four Aspects of Language | |
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"Parsing the Question: 'Why Teach Grammar?'" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Grammar for Teachers? | |
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"Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Dealing With Error | |
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"Grammar Instruction: What Teachers Say" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Sentence Fluency | |
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"When Some of Them Don't Speak English" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Writing Assignment: A Plan to Address a Problem | |
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For Further Reading | |
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Joining the Profession | |
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Introduction | |
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Readings | |
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"Paradoxes of Planning" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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"I'm Going to Get Paid Today!" | |
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For Further Thought | |
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Writing Assignment: A Philosophy of Teaching English | |
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Appendixes | |
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Rough Drafts (Tenth Grade) | |
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Short Stories (Seventh Grade) | |
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Childhood Toy Papers (Eighth Grade) | |
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Hundred Year Birthday Papers (Tenth Grade) | |
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Then/Now-There/Here Comparison-Contrast Papers (Tenth Grade) | |
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Literary Analysis Papers (Eleventh Grade) | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |