Fall 2006
Editors:
William Dyer &
John Banschbach

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• From the Editors
• Editors' Letter
• Idea Exchange
• Contributors

Past Issues

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Articles
Literature and Pedagogy
• Why We Teach Literature (and How We Could Do It Better) ~ Michael LoMonico
MEJ Best Article Award:
• Promoting Awareness and Empathy through World Literature
~ Elizabeth McCullough
• Teaching Clarissa: Can Students Be Coached to See this Book as More than Another Doorstop? ~ Michael McBride
• Stepping off a Small Cliff: Going Back to Ninth Grade with Romeo and Juliet
~ Scott Hall & William Dyer

Teaching—The Challenge and the Rewards
• Teachers: The Ruby Slippers ~ Peter Henry
• The Magic In Between ~ Mary Godwin

Teaching—Theory into Practice
• Multiple Intelligences Theory and the CollegeEnglish Classroom ~ Loli M. Dillon
• Reader Response: Learning from Teacher
Research ~ Elizabeth Berg Leer

Language-Learning and Writing
• Speaking of Writing: International and Immigrant Students Share their Experiences at a Northern Minnesota University
~ Avesa Rockwell
•“Meant to be read out loud: Building Bridges to Each Other, the Text, and the World through Storytelling” ~ Melissa Castino Reid
• Concurrent Revision: How Inexperienced Writers Frustrate the Writing Process
~ William J. Martin
• Using Thoreau's Walden to Teach Writing and Rhetoric ~ Richard Dillman

MCTE Grant Report
• MCTE Classroom Grant Pays for Poetry Booklets ~ Heather Megarry

2005

Editors:
William Dyer
John Banschbach

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Contents
• From the editors
• A 'Whodunit' Teaching Unit: The Underworld of Victorian London and Social Contexts in The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Matthew L. Christensen
• Firebirds and Ice Queens: A Teaching Unit on Russian Music - Chad J. Kuyper
• Wrestling with My Book Club Paradigm
Judith E. Landrum
• Reading the World: Supporting the Functional Literacy Abilities of Urban Learners - Dwight C. Watson
• Language! Curriculum Modification for a Small, Non-Traditional School - Amy LaCross & Alice Rivard
• The Prydain Chronicles as Myth and Realism - Michael O'Hearn
• Making Connections: Books for Harry Potter Fans - Faith H. Wallace
• Multimodal Trans(ACT)ions with Literature Through the Creaction of a 'Zine - Mary F. Wright
• Teaching Richard III: The Politics of Performance and Assessment - William Dyer & Scott Hall
• Contributers

2004

Editors:
William Dyer
John Banschbach

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Contents
• Best of Intentions
~ Heather Megarry
• They're Here, They're Queer, Get Used to It ~ Amanda M. MacGregor
• Women Find Personal Power Through Voice ~ Jeanette Lukowski
• Boy Scientist ~ Roger Hart
• Teaching the Ethnography in a Composition Classroom
~ Gwen Hart
• The Misdirected Letter
~ S.H. Aeschliman
• Multicultural Literature in an Honors Classroom
~ Maria Mikolchak
• Alcoholic Tendencies in Faulkner's "Barn Burning" ~ Karen Wenz
• Ghosts, Madness, and the Wall in the Hall
~ William D. Dyer and Scott Hall
• MCTE Grant Provides Differentiated Reading Resources to Park Elementary
~ Lorie VanderHeiden