Volume 46
February 2011
Editor: Brian C. Lewis
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cover art: Gull Lake ~ Brian Lewis |
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Personal Narratives: Prose and Poetry
• The Man to Send Rain Clouds ~ Tanya Miller
• Becoming a Parent: Implications for the English Teacher ~ Amanda Sass-Henke
• Three Poems: Simulacrum – School: May 2011 – Hail Stones ~ Larry Gavin
The Teaching of Writing: Theories, Practices, and New Technologies
• Dialogical Encounters of the Critical Kind: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for Language Arts Pedagogy ~ Rachel Malchow Lloyd
• Reading Like a (Nonfiction) Writing Teacher: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Nonfiction Writing ~ Susan Kaback
• A Rose Depicted through Any Genre Would Smell just as Sweet, Wouldn't It? Coming to Grips with Genre ~ Martin Warren
• Landing: Writing About Place in our Flyover State ~ Emily Brisse
• Putting on Virtual Black-Face: A Classroom Analysis of Grand Theft Auto ~ Rachel L.T. Hatten
• "As Close to What I Look Like As Possible": Student Online Self-Repreentations Using Voki Avatars ~ Brian Lewis
• Four Poems: Failed Test – The Future-Scholar Confesses – Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream for the First Time – Profession ~ Noel Sloboda
Literary Dimensions: From the Pedagogical to the Poetic
• Teaching King Lear: Metatheatre and the Absurd ~ Christopher McCarthy
• Meridel LeSeuer: Metaphors from the Margins ~ Carol Mohrbacher
• Recovering the Classical in the Common: Figures of Speech in "A Scandal in Bohemia" ~ Karen Murdock
• Two Poems: Banquo on Horseback – On a Photograph of Anne Sexton ~ Dallas Crow
Editor's Introduction • Contributors • Call for Papers
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Volume 46
February 2011
Editor: Brian C. Lewis
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cover art: Gooseberry Falls ~ Ryan Acker |
Article Downloads:
Defining Our Profession
• Changes in Minnesota English Teaching ~ Richard Beach
• Style: Definition, Separation, and the Teachable ~ Carol Mohrbacher
Multicultural Literature in the Curricula
• Indian Novels Teach Complex Identities to Secondary Students ~ Candice Deal, Corrine Ehrfurth and Paula Schevers
• Towards Segregation of Native American Literature Instruction in Secondary English Classrooms ~ Daryl Parks
• Multicultural Literature: New Books and Teaching Ideas ~ Jacqueline Arnold and Anne O'Meara
Working with New Media
• Online Distance Education: Surviving the Tsunami ~ Linda Lein
• Claiming Their Learning: Urban Teens and the Documentary Filmmaking Process ~ Molly McCarthy Vasich and Jessica Dockter Tierney
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Huck or Chuck?: Using Online Role-Play and Ning to Negotiate Race in the High School English Classroom ~ Elizabeth Barniskis
Why Teach This Text?
• Forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next: What We Can Learn from Precious (and Push) about Developmental Writing Instruction ~ Brian C. Lewis
• Why I Teach Campbell McGrath's 'Maizel at Shorty's in Kendall' ~ Dallas Crow
• From The Odyssey to The Kite Runner: Creating and Implementing a Literature Curriculum in a Somali Charter School ~ Heather Megarry Traeger
Poem
Veteran English Teacher: The Chalk Magician ~ Bill Meissner
• Editor's Introduction • Contributers • Call for Papers |
Volume 45 - Fall 2009
Editors:
William Dyer &
John Banschbach
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cover art: Matins ~ Joel Cooper
publication design ~ Katie Tormala
online publications design ~ Cheryl Massé |
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Teaching, Texts, and Audiences
• Intergenerational Bonds: Millennials Write Life Stories about “the Greatest Generation” ~ Lynn Ludwig
• The Complexities of Identity: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s Abeng to High School Students ~ Angie Iserman
• Distort, Disfigure, and Destroy: The Manipulation of History and the Failure to Rebel in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch ~ Benjamin Hamborg
• The Merchants of Macbeth: Strategies for Selling Students Shares in the Play ~ Bill Dyer
Teaching Reading and Writing—From Theory to Practice, Genre to Technology
• Navigating the New Semiotic Landscape: Why This Midcareer Teacher Uses Visual Art to Connect with Young Thinkers (MEJ 2009 Award Winner) ~ Jennifer Budenski
• Wikis in the Classroom—It’s the Process, not the Product ~ Martin Warren
• The Genre of Book Trailers: Creating, Assessing, and Celebrating Them ~ Sandy Hayes
(View example audio book trailers – Download storyboard template)
• Changing the Landscape of Writing Centers in the Two-Year College through Online Discussion Boards ~ Brian Lewis, Gordon Pueschner, Kim Gaffney, Chris Weyandt
• Learning Inextricably Linked to Writing ~ Connie Ehrfurth
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Of Maps and Miles and Metaphors: Pedaling/Peddling Thoughts on Writing Instruction ~ Sherri Larson
MCTE Grant Report
Journal Wish Opens Doorway to Self-Discovery ~ Alison Konkol
The Idea Exchange - Teaching Tips
• From the Sage to the Stage to the Guide on the Side ~ Kathryn Campbell
• Listening CHEC Strategy: Ask, Don’t Tell ~ Peder Engebretson
• Oops, Oh! Huh?: Categorizing Students’ Reactions to Errors in Their Writing ~ Paul Carney
Section V: Letters to the Editor
No Time To Pee: Making the Case for Teachers to Empower Their Profession ~ Karen Morrill-Bryan
Contributors
• Cover • Editor's Letter • Contributers • Call for Papers • Call for Letters to the Editor |
Volume 44 - Fall 2008
Editors:
William Dyer &
John Banschbach
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Articles
Narrowing the Gap—Reading and Writing from High School into the University
• Identifying and Supporting College-Ready Writing Skills Among High School Students: An Inter-Institutional Alignment Model ~ Paul Carney
• Building a Better Tool-Kit: The Origins and Construction of a Writing-Intensive Web Site ~ Anne O’Meara & William D. Dyer
Conversations with a Text— Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods
• Anything You Want: Using Consumerism as a Lens in Teaching and Reading Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods ~ Scott R. Hall
• Through Another Looking Glass: Helping Students See Themselves in O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods ~ Melissa Brandt
Teaching, Text, and Audiences
• “My Wife...Gets Bad Guys” How One Instructor’s Vicarious Experience Influences His Classroom Identity and Practice ~ Elizabeth Kirchoff
• Discovering Landscape With(out) Photographs ~ G. St. John Stott
• Seduction, Abandonment and Sorcery in Middle English Lyrics ~ Nickie Kranz
• mplementing Graphic Arts into Language Arts Classrooms ~ Doug Annett
Teaching Writing—From Genre into Practice
• Multigenre Writing: An Answer to Many Questions ~ Sherri Larson
• Beyond the Fields of Fire: Lessons from Ambrose Bierce’s War Memoirs and Narratives ~ Carl Nelson
• Filling the Attic ~ Alexandra Glynn
• Cover • From the Editors • Editors' Letter • Idea Exchange • Contributors • Call for papers
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Volume 43 - Fall 2007
Editors:
William Dyer &
John Banschbach
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Articles
Narrowing the Gap – Reading and Writing from High School into the University
• What We Teach and Why: Contemporary Literary Theory and Adolescents ~ Deborah Appleman
• Wait Until You Get to College – Transitions from High School to College Writing ~ Cindy Olson & Anne O'Meara
The Profession– The Challenges and Politics of Teaching English
• The Case Against Standardized Testing ~ Peter Henry
• Devising the Appropriate Program of Studies for the 21st Century English Major: The Consumer as Designer ~ Martin Warren
• Opening Doors with a Degree in English ~ John Banschbach
Teaching—Theory into Practice
• Writing Workshop for K-6 Success: Foundations for a Literate Democracy ~ Susan Perala-Dewey
• Helping Refugee Students Find Their Voice ~ Michael Mutschelknaus
• Revision Think Sheets: Supporting Writers from Draft to Final Copy ~ Suzanne Kaback
Literature and Pedagogy
• The Western Canon in Today's High Schools ~ Jeremy Hoffman
• Old Men with Wings: One Look at Teaching Magical Realism through Gabriel Garcia Marquez ~ Jessica Jorgenson
• Teaching Old Gringo through the Mexican Revolution and Ambrose Bierce ~ Michael MacBride
• A Pedagogical Apprroach to Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate ~ Nickie Kranz
MCTE Grant Report
• Ussing Visual Art to Assess Thinking in a Language Arts Classroom ~Jennifer Budenski
• Cover • From the Editors • Editors' Letter • Idea Exchange • Contributors • Call for papers |
Volume 42 - Fall 2006
Editors:
William Dyer &
John Banschbach
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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
• Cover • Acknowledgements • From the Editors • Editors' Letter • Idea Exchange • Contributors
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Volume 41 - 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
• Contributors
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Volume 40 - 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 |
