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

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

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

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

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