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EDUCAÇÃO AMBIENTAL E GESTÃO DOS RESÍDUOS SÓLIDOS: os 5 Rs da sustentabilidade
Authors: SANTOS ARANTXA CARLA DA SILVA , PONTES ALTEM NASCIMENTO
Published: March 2024

O objetivo deste artigo foi analisar o processo educativo referente à reciclagem dosresíduos sólidos urbanos no Brasil. Para isso, foi explorada a evolução da gestão deresíduos sólidos urbanos a partir da Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos e da coletaseletiva presente nos municípios brasileiros; também foram estudados os conceitosrelacionados à reciclagem sob a vertente dos “5 Rs” da sustentabilidade. Em termosmetodológicos, a pesquisa foi quali-quantitativa e exploratória, consistindo na coletade dados obtidos através do Panorama dos Resíduos Sólidos no Brasil da AssociaçãoBrasileira de Empresas de Limpeza Pública e Resíduos Especiais, com informaçõesligadas à geração, coleta e destinação de resíduos sólidos. Constatou-se umasignificativa produção anual de resíduos sólidos urbanos em virtude do alto consumoe da falta de gestão sustentável, e embora existam avanços referentes à coletaseletiva, muitos municípios ainda não possuem um descarte correto para os seusresíduos sólidos, ocasionando problemas ambientais, sociais e de saúde. Com isso,se faz necessário investir em Educação Ambiental que oriente a população a reduzir,recusar, reciclar, repensar e reutilizar.
O ALUNO COM DEFICIÊNCIA DIANTE DA SUPRESSÃO DE GARANTIAS CONSTITUCIONAIS NO SÉCULO XXI
Authors: SOUZA IHANNE BARBOSA , DA SILVA2 ELIAIDINA WAGNA OLIVEIRA
Published: March 2024

Essa pesquisa bibliográfica é uma reflexão sobre a educação inclusiva para pessoascom deficiência. A temática é suscitada no contexto de que as políticas adotadasrefletem conceitos sociais de assimilação de padrões existenciais hierarquizados.Explora-se o advento da Carta Cidadã um divisor de águas em que houve aconfirmação do Estado Democrático de Direito a inaugurar um modelo de escolainclusiva, cujo trato com a dignidade da pessoa propõem rupturas com sistemassegregacionistas. Assim, a inclusão social positiva dentro do ensino regular éassimilada como um direito fundamental de acesso igualitário dos grupos minoritáriose vulneráveis à educação. O estudo apresenta uma leitura multidisciplinar de conteúdopedagógico, jurídico e filosófico para apontar que normatizações como o Decreto n.º10.502, de 30 de setembro de 2020 direcionado a criação de escolas separadas parapessoas com deficiência, ao representar segregação, não é abrigado pelaConstituição Federal. Ao expor as trajetórias de lutas dos movimentos sociais pelaaderência de todos, sem distinção, aos espaços compartilhados, a análise demonstraque a efetivação de ações afirmativas exige constante militância dos setoresrepresentativos contra retrocessos de esferas conservadores.
A APLICABILIDADE DOS INSTRUMENTOS DA POLÍTICA NACIONAL DO MEIO AMBIENTE
Authors: ROCHA NAYARA BATISTA PEREIRA
Published: March 2024

O presente artigo visa analisar a aplicabilidade dos instrumentos da Política Nacionaldo Meio Ambiente considerando os atos normativos, na esfera federal, relacionadosa cada um dos itens previstos no art. 9º da Lei 6.938/1981. A discussão propostamostra-se relevante considerando a evolução da tutela do meio ambiente e aavaliação de eficácia dos meios definidos para o alcance dos objetivos da políticaambiental. Tem-se como objetivo verificar as normas existentes vinculadas a cada umdos instrumentos da política pública do meio ambiente para compreender a execuçãoda política. Para tanto, a averiguação foi realizada por meio da análise da legislação,da doutrina, de sites institucionais e de plataformas do governo por meio de pesquisadescritiva. A partir da análise realizada, verifica-se que a aplicabilidade dosinstrumentos da Política Nacional do Meio Ambiente é permeada pela complexidadedo tema e que enfrenta desafios para demonstrar eficiência e eficácia na utilização deseus instrumentos e alcançar a melhoria da qualidade ambiental.
TRANSPOSIÇÃO DIDÁTICA APLICADA À EXTENSÃO RURAL: proposta a partir de um estudo de caso
Authors: SANTOS VINÍCIUS DA SILVA , RIBEIRO LISBOA ADEBIO DE JESUS , DE SOUZA SÉRGIO RODRIGUES
Published: March 2024

O presente artigo aborda a temática sobre transposição didática aplicada à extensãorural: proposta a partir de um estudo de caso. Sua relevância científica concentra-seno fato de ampliar os conhecimentos sobre formas de transpor os conhecimentosalcançados pela pesquisa para os produtores, criando uma forma didática deesclarecer a estes como atuar no manejo diário do solo e na exploração racional dosprodutos agrícolas. Sua relevância social encontra-se no fato de possibilitar ao leitorter contato com os conhecimentos técnicos disponíveis por meio de uma linguagemacessível. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, fundamentada em autores do setorde pesquisas e ensino ligados à agropecuária e ao campo da transposição didática.Busca analisar como os conhecimentos adquiridos por meio da investigação científicasobre manejo agrícola pode contribuir para que o produtor rural possa preparar-semelhor para enfrentar situações de stress hídrico por falta de água (estiagemprolongada). O estudo fundamenta-se sobre o problema da crise hídrica (seca) queafetou a região norte do Estado do Espírito Santo, no ano de 2014, focando nomunicípio de Ecoporanga. As conclusões a que se pode chegar é que a extensão ruralnecessita de preparar-se didaticamente para que possa fazer chegar ao produtor ruralmais informações e com melhor qualidade técnica e levar dos produtores até oscentros de pesquisa inquietações e indagações sobre solo, clima, manejo e situaçõesde plantio e cuidados agrícolas e zootécnicos.
Culpa in contrahendo im Rahmen von Post M&A-Streitigkeiten
Authors: Lösch Julia
Published: March 2024

The work deals with the problem areas of liability arising from culpa in contrahendo in the context of M&A transactions. Considering the large number of company acquisitions and the information exchanged in this context, § 311 II BGB should be a central element of the reversal of corresponding transactions or compensation for damages in the event of a breach of a pre-contractual duty of disclosure in practice. Decisions by state courts on this liability complex in M&A transactions can only be found sporadically. The literature also lacks a concise description of the specific problem areas of liability for pre-contractual disclosure obligations in M&A transactions. The author takes this as an opportunity to work out the legal parameters that form the basis for liability arising from the pre-contractual legal institution in company acquisitions.
Analisis Kinerja Keuangan Badan Usaha Milik Desa (Studi Pada Desa Paranda dan Desa Laijanji)
Authors: Bunga Merlinda Dai , Pakereng Yulita Milla
Published: March 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kinerja keuangan BUMDes di Desa Paranda dan Laijanji periode 2020-2021. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kuantitatif dengan penentuan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling sehingga diperoleh sebanyak 2 sampel dari 7 populasi. Jenis data yaitu, data sekunder yang telah diolah berupa laporan neraca dan laba rugi. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah analisis rasio keuangan yaitu, rasio profitabilitas yang diukur dari Return On Investment dan rasio aktivitas yang diukur dari Inventory Turn Over dan Total Asset Turn Over. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan kinerja keuangan BUMDes Desa Paranda dan Desa Laijanji berdasarkan rasio profitabilitas semakin menurun diukur dari Return On Investment pada Tahun 2020-2021. Selanjutnya, kinerja keuangan BUMDes Desa Paranda dan Desa Laijanji berdasarkan rasio aktivitas semakin menurun diukur dari Inventory Turn Over dan Total Asset Turn Over pada Tahun 2020-2021. Artinya, kedua BUMDes berada dalam kondisi kinerja keuangan yang semakin menurun.
Small jewels: two new species of the rare genus Masona van Achterberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae), with a catalogue of world species and comments on the peculiar morphology of the genus
Authors: Dal Pos Davide , Broad Gavin R. , Martens Abigail P.
Published: March 2024

A comprehensive review of the enigmatic genus Masona van Achterberg is provided. Two new species are described from the USA: Masona neon Dal Pos & Martens sp. nov. from Puerto Rico, and Masona wow Dal Pos & Martens sp. nov. from California. A key to the world species of Masona is presented, together with a discussion of the morphology of the genus and an annotated catalogue of the species. [Masona] timpaynei Quicke, 2019, is excluded from Braconidae and placed as incertae sedis in the Ichneumonidae, subfamily Neorhacodinae.
“To Protect and Serve”: African American Female Literacies
Authors: Richardson Elaine
Published: March 2024

This chapter seeks to add to our understanding of literacy as it relates to African Americans, with a focus on African American female literacies. Primarily, I argue that mother tongue literacy is central to literacy education.
Teaching with the Beginner’s Mind: Notes from My Karate Journal
Authors: Fontaine Sheryl I.
Published: March 2024

The author reflects on what she has learned about university teaching from her experience being a novice student of karate. She asserts the value for even seasoned teachers to maintain a beginner’s mind that is “free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and to open to all the possibilities.” From this new position, the author’s awareness of what she does in the classroom has shifted, as her respect for students has grown and her understanding of their feelings has deepened.
“The Politics of Location”: Text As Opposition
Authors: Moreno Renee M.
Published: March 2024

Foregrounding issues of race, ethnicity, and education, this article ties together two important issues in teaching (so-called) basic writing: how social and pedagogical issues in higher education shape possibilities for bicultural students’ writings and how these students can use their developing sense of literacy and their texts to explore identity.
Dear Saints, Dear Stella: Letters Examining the Messy Lines of Expectations, Stereotypes, and Identity in Higher Education
Authors: Barron Nancy G.
Published: March 2024

The following article focuses on Latino students’ difficulties with higher education because of dual constructions of identity from and toward the Anglo mainstream. First, the article addresses Other perception: the potential problems Latino students (Mexican Americans) encounter in higher education based on how others perceive their individual and group identity. Second, it addresses self-perception: the contradictory expectations that Mexican Americans have of the mainstream in higher education. The discussion of these issues is presented in a letter format that primarily speaks to audiences outside the mainstream.
Performing Writing, Performing Literacy
Authors: Fishman Jenn , Lunsford Andrea A. , McGregor Beth , Otuteye Mark
Published: March 2024

This essay reports on the first two years of the Stanford Study of Writing, a five-year longitudinal study aimed at describing as accurately as possible all the kinds of writing students perform during their college years. Based on an early finding about the importance students attach to their out-of-class or self-sponsored writing and subsequent interviews with study participants, we argue that student writing is increasingly linked to theories and practices of performance. To illustrate the complex relationships between early college writing and performance, we explore the work of two study participants who are also coauthors of this essay.
A Multimodal Task-Based Framework for Composing
Authors: Shipka Jody
Published: March 2024

This essay presents a task-based multimodal framework for composing grounded in theories of multiple media and goal formation. By examining the way two students negotiated the complex communicative tasks presented them in class, the essay underscores the benefits associated with asking students to attend to the various motives, activities, tools, and environments that occasion, support, and complicate the production of academic as well as everyday texts.
Review Essay: Language, Identity, and Citizenship
Authors: Gilyard Keith
Published: March 2024

Review Essay: Language, Identity, and Citizenship Keith Gilyard Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism Dexter B. Gordon, Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003 Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education. Catherine Prendergast, Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003 Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity and Literacy Education, Michelle Hall Kells, Valerie Balester, and Victor Villanueva, eds., Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 2004.
The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition
Authors: Ritter Kelly
Published: March 2024

Using sample student analyses of online paper mill Web sites, student survey responses, and existing scholarship on plagiarism, authorship, and intellectual property, this article examines how the consumerist rhetoric of the online paper mills construes academic writing as a commodity for sale, and why such rhetoric appeals to students in first-year composition, whose cultural disconnect from the academic system of authorship increasingly leads them to patronize these sites.
Summary & Critique: Composition at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Fulkerson Richard
Published: March 2024

I argue that examining two collections of essays designed for the preparation of new writing teachers and published twenty years apart provides some important clues to what has occurred to composition studies in the interval. Building on the framework I established in two previous CCC articles, I argue that composition studies has become a less unified and more contentious discipline early in the twenty-first century than it had appeared to be around 1990. The present article specifically addresses the rise of what I call critical/cultural studies, the quiet expansion of expressive approaches to teaching writing, and the split of rhetorical approaches into three: argumentation, genre analysis, and preparation for “the” academic discourse community.
Breaking Ground in Ecocomposition: Exploring Relationships between Discourse and Environment
Authors: Dobrin Sidney I. , Weisser Christin R.
Published: March 2024

Hopes to promote recognition of the importance of the intersections between discourse, place, and environment through theoretical examinations and pedagogical approaches. Offers some preliminary working definitions for ecocomposition and examines the evolution of ecocomposition; distinguishes between ecocomposition and ecocriticism; and offers some perspectives on ecocomposition pedagogy.
OPINION: Gleaning in Academe: Personal Decisions for Adjuncts and Graduate Students
Authors: Papp James
Published: March 2024

Argues that the situation of adjunct instructors, particularly those who piece full-time employment from part-time appointments, is appalling and that there is responsibility to be meted out to all the various interests connected to the academy that benefit from it. Explores how adjunct instructors and graduate student can make decisions about their careers based on the prevailing conditions of employment.
Theorizing Queer Pedagogy in English Studies after the 1990s
Authors: Spurlin William J.
Published: March 2024

Considers how in the contemporary world, queer theory mediates in culture between normative ideologies and material practices, between intellectual inquiry and social activism, between text and context, between teaching and learning. Presents an introduction for this special issue, noting that the essays collected represent pedagogical interventions that are theoretically informed by queer scholarship.
Dis/Integrating the Gay/Queer Binary: “Reconstructed Identity Politics” for a Performative Pedagogy
Authors: Kopelson Karen
Published: March 2024

Explores some queer and performative objections, challenges, and counterproposals to the identity-based pedagogies still dominating composition studies and closely related fields, bringing to the foreground pedagogies that take the instability of identity as a starting point and move toward even greater deconstruction. Proposes a tentative theoretical (re)solution that dis/integrates the binary underlying these “two” approaches to praxis.
Tales of the City: Marginality, Community, and the Problem of (Gay) Identity in Wallace Thurman’s "Harlem" Fiction
Authors: Jarraway David R.
Published: March 2024

Incites inquiry as to how modern American literature reflects on the problem of identity. Spotlights the contribution to modern American writing by Wallace Thurman’s "Harlem" fiction. Endeavors to link a racial imperative to a sexual imperative by means of a current theoretical discourse surrounding notions of city and community life.
Out in the Academy: Heterosexism, Invisibility, and Double Consciousness
Authors: Wallace David L.
Published: March 2024

Provides a mini-autoethnography of three institutional moments in which the author saw a set of conditions that invited him to speak or write as a gay academic to make political interventions in dominant culture. Explores three important issues that are often unacknowledged in everyday discussions of homosexuality: exposing heteronormativity as heterosexism, moving beyond invisibility, and the trap of "double consciousness."
Secret Sins of the Orient: Creating a (Homo)Textual Context for Reading Byron’s The Giaour
Authors: Schneider Jeffrey L.
Published: March 2024

Focuses on the way sexual excesses inscribed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Oriental discourses served to open up "queer" spaces in Romantic literature, while analyzing the degree to which the master narrative of British colonial domination was in part dependent on narratives of the sexual degeneracy of the Other. Focuses on Byron’s "The Giaour" to illustrate the workings of "homotextuality."
The Daughter’s Disenchantment: Incest as Pedagogy in Fairy Tales and Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss
Authors: Marshall Elizabeth
Published: March 2024

This essay suggests that Harrison’s representation of father–daughter incest in The Kiss draws on literary elements of two seemingly distinct genres, memoir and fairy tale, to tell a story of violence and violation in the white middle–class family. Through memoir, it argues, Harrison revises the moral and behavioral edicts that cultural narratives, especially traditional fairy tales dealing with father–daughter incest, seek to impose.
Invisible Hands: A Manifesto to Resolve Institutional and Curricular Hierarchy in English Studies
Authors: Fitts Karen , Lalicker William B.
Published: March 2024

The authors argue for a structural revolution in English studies that builds on the epistemological ground shared by those in composition and literature. Their confederative “English studies” model integrates work in literature, discourse, language studies, and the larger culture with rhetoric and writing instruction horizontally, not hierarchically.
English Studies in Levittown: Rhetorics of Space and Technology in Course-Management Software
Authors: Payne Darin
Published: March 2024

Seconding Johnathon Mauk’s call in these pages for greater attention to the politics of space, and extending it to the increasingly ubiquitous realities of virtual space, the author argues that course-management software systems such as Blackboard naturalize certain constructions of subjectivity for us and our students in ways inimical to our pedagogical goals. He argues that we and our students should not only be critically attentive to such constructions but should also wherever possible develop our own local, discipline-specific spaces in resistance to the homogenization of space and subjectivity they represent.
The Lost Island of English Studies: Globalization, Market Logic, and the Rhetorical Work of Department Web Sites
Authors: Stroupe Craig
Published: March 2024

The author identifies possibilities of a “lost island” rhetoric that situates English department Web sites--and the profession’s defining practices--in an ambivalent relationship to global capital via the online network. The article describes how three department sites variously employ this rhetoric to assert English studies’ own forms of intellectual productivity and cultural value in dialogue with the market logic that dominates the Web.
BookTalk: Literacy, Ecology, and “At-Risk” Students: Report from the Other Side
Authors: Alvine Lynne
Published: March 2024

rededicate themselves to CEE work.
Thematic Study of Literature: Middle School Teachers, Professional Development, and Educational Reform
Authors: Athanases Steven Z.
Published: March 2024

Reflects on the study of literary themes in a reform to develop thinking based curricula for lower income urban youth. Mentions the need to broaden students worlds and discusses implications for middle grades teacher education. Suggests the need for preservice teachers to have plenty of ongoing workshop practice in shaping and critiquing thematic study.
Entering the Middle: Key Works for Middle School English Language Arts Teacher Education
Authors: Michele Pittard M.
Published: March 2024

Presents an annotated bibliography of the most recent middle school literature as it relates most directly to English language arts. Consists of only book-length publications published from 1990-2002. Presents annotations of 32 titles categorized into three related sections: general middle school issues; resources for teaching middle school English language arts; and resources for teacher education.
Reading the Complex World: Students Approach The Scarlet Letter from Multiple Perspectives
Authors: Cella Lorraine
Published: March 2024

Lorraine Cella tells how she teaches The Scarlet Letter through the multiple interpretations of the meaning of the text as seen through a variety of literary theories that may be applied to the text. The article includes suggestions, assignments, assesment, and extension assignments.
Teaching Beloved: Images of Transcendence
Authors: Greenbaum Vicky
Published: March 2024

Vicky Greenbaum recounts her plan for teaching Beloved, with a focus on “imagery and transcendence, investigating how characters live through devastation to find hope.”
Cross Conversations: How Can a Teacher Save a Program That Administrators Want to Cut?
Authors: Sion Ronald T. , Romano Tom
Published: March 2024

How to save a worthwhile humanities program from being cut by administrators is the basis of the discussion between Ronald T. Sion and Tom Romano.
A Tempest Project: Shakespeare and Critical Conflicts
Authors: McCann Thomas M. , Flanagan Joseph M.
Published: March 2024

Describes a 4-week unit of study that focuses on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” a text that has been especially controversial in today’s climate of increased multicultural awareness. Involves students in a larger conversation about the possibilities for reading and interpreting literature and prepares them to write mature analyses of the play.
Tights vs. Tattoos: Filmic Interpretations of Romeo and Juliet
Authors: Martin Jennifer L.
Published: March 2024

Suggests students will view film adaptations of Shakespeare plays more critically by carefully analyzing the same scene from several different film versions. Discusses relevant scenes from “Romeo and Juliet” for classroom interpretation. Suggests that by providing students the vocabulary to discuss the film, educators can encourage them to look for detail and to analyze film as they never have before.
Shakespeare’s World: A Quiz with Questions and Answers
Authors: Isaac Megan Lynn
Published: March 2024

Presents a brief quiz designed to focus on facts often forgotten or about which misperceptions typically swirl, and to concentrate attention on the lives of children and young adults during the Renaissance. Notes that the answers to the quiz are followed by explanations arranged, like the quiz, in three sections that provide some information about the issues raised.
Shakespearean Slide Shows
Authors: Flynn Rosalind M.
Published: March 2024

Presents a condensed method for involving students in the kind of theatrical problem-solving that transforms a script to a play. Describes how to incorporate a “human slide show” into the class. Notes that students must read plays not just to understand events, but to make artistic choices about how to stage the action so that an audience understands what happens.
When Multigenre Meets Multimedia: Reading Films to Understanding Books
Authors: Dziedzic Benjamin B.
Published: March 2024

Benjamin B. Dziedzic recounts a unit based on films made from books.
Talk about Books: The Landscape of Divorce: When Worlds Collide
Authors: Moore John Noell
Published: March 2024

John Noell Moore reviews Waiting by Ha Jin.
Grammar—Comma—a New Beginning
Authors: Ehrenworth Mary
Published: March 2024

Mary Ehrenworth discusses a method for teaching grammar through celebrating what is well done in student writing, instead of what is wrong, and by using writing mentors.
Teacher to Teacher: What Activity Do You Recommend for Teaching Grammar?
Authors: Shafer Gregory , Swindle Stephenie , Joseph Nancy
Published: March 2024

Here are several activities for teaching grammar.
Learning with Technology; How E-mail Can Give You Back Your Life
Authors: Monroe Barbara
Published: March 2024

Barbara Monroe suggests that having students use e-mail to post their writing will help make them take more care with their writing.
The Unrecognized Exceptionality: Teaching Gifted Adolescents with Depression
Authors: Gardner Susan
Published: March 2024

Notes the importance and the difficulty of recognizing those students at risk for depression. Proposes that one of the most important things educators can do is to ask for inservice education on this disease and policies for handling those at risk. Concludes that when educators work with depressed students, they should consider adjusting class requirements.
Fundamentals of Literature: Teaching High School Students with Special Needs
Authors: Brown Donna M.
Published: March 2024

Suggests that a remedial English classroom should be simple, emphasize respect, and make students comfortable. Notes that regardless of the special challenges each student may bring to the classroom, basic language skills improve through practice. Describes a remedial English class, which incorporates journal writing, reading aloud, sustained silent reading, and discussion.
Can We Read Today, or Do We Hafta Do English?
Authors: Silva Peggy
Published: March 2024

How can a teacher help students become avid readers? Peggy Silva describes how cultivating a culture of reading in ninth-grade English has increased student interest and renewed her teaching.
Avoid the Edifice Complex and Enjoy Teaching Chaucer
Authors: Baughn Gary
Published: March 2024

High school students can see reading The Canterbury Tales as daunting. To meet this challenge, Gary Baughn shares lessons â€œcombining the literary and the vulgarâ€ that fully engage the students with the text.
On the First Day of Student Teaching
Authors: Mohyuddin Faisal
Published: March 2024

The related arts of seeing, teaching, and writing shape this poem, written while the author was student teaching.
Old Dogs, New Tricks: Intersections of the Personal, The Pedagogical, the Professional
Authors: Littman Linda L.
Published: March 2024

The author discusses the power of personal narratives to help writers not only improve their writing and understand themselves but also think more critically. Through poetry that grew from her impulse for narrative, Littman reveals her growth as a teacher who was simultaneously learning about studentsâ€™ growth and change.
Reading as Resistance: Gendered Messages in Literature and Media
Authors: Wallowitz Laraine
Published: March 2024

Students may be surprised to discover the extent to which print and visual texts shape our concepts of gender. Focusing specifically on how literature and media construct femininity, Wallowitz and colleagues created a unit that “enabled readers to recognize the mixed messages in the media about body image and culturally constructed notions of gender.”
From Sheryl Crow to Homer Simpson: Literature and Composition through Pop Culture
Authors: Evans Jerome
Published: March 2024

High school teacher Jerome Evans makes popular culture an integral part of his courses. Through analyzing themes in song lyrics, rhetorical devices in essays and advertisements, and psychology in contemporary film, students improve their skills in critical thinking and writing.
Walk with Light: Guiding Students through the Conventions of Literary Analysis
Authors: Burdan Judith
Published: March 2024

An experienced secondary and postsecondary teacher, Burdan shares some common misconceptions surrounding literary analysis and describes activities that help students understand â€œthe play of language.’
A World Full of Bones and Wind: Teaching Works by James Welch
Authors: Charles Jim
Published: March 2024

Through a detailed examination of works by James Welch, the author shows how Welchâ€™s poetry and prose can be used to overcome stereotypes of Native Americans and explore themes of identity, family, and love. Jim Charles urges readers to consider, along with Welchâ€™s characters, â€œthe redemptive act of overcoming the seemingly insurmountable distances between peoples.’
Let Chaos In: Enacting Democracy in a Writing and Publishing Class
Authors: Olkowski Erin , Ihrke Emily Tymus
Published: March 2024

High school teachers Erin Olkowski and Emily Tymus Ihrke know from personal experience the benefits to students of democratic classrooms and the associated difficulties. They share their six principles for making a publications class work democratically.
Teaching English in the World: Code-Switch to Teach Standard English
Authors: Wheeler Rebecca S. , Lindblom Kenneth
Published: March 2024

â€œTeaching English in the Worldâ€ examines the teaching of English in a global context.
Using Technology to Create a Sense of Community
Authors: Davis Chris , Davis Jennifer
Published: March 2024

Chris Davis and Jennifer Davis embrace the teaching environment of their science and technology magnet school. Using their students’ skills in Web development, PowerPoint, Photoshop, and other technologies, the authors create lessons that help students “make connections with one another and with the community.”;
The Henry Ford Academy: An Innovative Space for Teaching and Learning
Authors: Graybill Edith
Published: March 2024

The English Journal staff interviews Edith Graybill, English instructor, Henry Ford Academy, Dearborn, Michigan
New Voices: Goldilocks and the Three Schools
Authors: Hunt Tiffany J. , Hunt Bud
Published: March 2024

“New Voices”; raises questions, offers insights, and provides a forum for novice teachers to engage in the professional conversation surrounding the teaching of English.
Stepping into the Classroom: Moo Goo Gai Pan or Shrimp Dumpling? Spicing Up Your Classroom’s Menu
Authors: Bigelow Terry Patrick , Vokoun Michael J.
Published: March 2024

“Stepping into the Classroom”; shares innovative lesson ideas grounded in current literature or action research.
Personal Reading: ”;Even If I Fail, I Have to Try”
Authors: Null Linda , Alfred Suellen
Published: March 2024

“Personal Reading”; contains reviews of fiction and nonfiction books, with a special interest in multicultural works.
Bold Books for Teenagers: Summer Reading 2005
Authors: Gallo Don
Published: March 2024

“Bold Books for Teenagers”; provides dynamic, informative viewpoints on important issues in publishing and teaching contemporary literature, especially literature for adolescents. Reviews of young adult literature also appear in this column.
Poetry
Authors: Brewbaker James
Published: March 2024

“Poetry”; features poems by teachers and professional poets.
Snapshots:Convention Memoir: Bringing a Little "Significance" Back to the Trenches
Authors: Ewell Janet
Published: March 2024

“Snapshots” offers insights about teaching and learning through teacher stories about a particular classroom event.
Speaking My Mind: Orwell Farmed for Education
Authors: Sutherland Tracy
Published: March 2024

“Speaking My Mind” invites readers to speak out about controversial issues relevant to the teaching of English language arts.
Using Process Drama to Deconstruct A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Authors: Weltsek Gustave
Published: March 2024

Required in his new teaching position to teach A Midsummer Nightâ€™s Dream, Gustave Weltsek turned to process drama to avoid passing on traditional views and interpretations of the play. By first using improvisations to get students talking about issues important to them, he helped the class to see relevance in Shakespeareâ€™s text.
Taking Time: Beyond Memorization: Using Drama to Promote Thinking
Authors: Perry Tonya
Published: March 2024

“Taking Time” addresses challenges in teaching and curriculum that affect middle level education through focusing on the middle child in urban, rural, and suburban settings.
From the Secondary Section: Collaborative Learning Communities
Authors: Livesay Mary Ellen , Moore Carol Ann , Stankay Roger J. , Waters Mary Jean , Waff Diana , Gentile Claudia A.
Published: March 2024

Members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee comment on topics of importance to English language arts educators.
Pedagogical Recycling: How Colleagues Change Colleagues’ Minds
Authors: O’Donnell-Allen Cindy
Published: March 2024

Using the metaphor of recycling along a continuum, teacher-researcher Cindy O’Donnell-Allen describes how teachers adapt the ideas of their colleagues with varying degrees of change based on their different contexts.
Composing for Delivery
Authors: Kessler Kate
Published: March 2024

Reviving a concept from classical rhetoric, Kate Kessler shows how delivery is the key to authentic writing. Her students become engaged with the writing process, knowing their letters and proposals will be read by real audiences, and are further encouraged by seeing the positive results of their well-presented ideas.
Teaching English in the World: Keeping New English Teachers “Young”
Authors: Lindblom Kenneth
Published: March 2024

“Teaching English in the World” examines the teaching of English in a global context.
Stepping into the Classroom: Sage Advice Makes Life That Much Sweeter
Authors: Bigelow Terry Patrick , Vokoun Michael J.
Published: March 2024

“Stepping into the Classroom” shares innovative lesson ideas grounded in current literature or action research.
Bold Books for Teenagers: Intelligent Choices for Intelligent Readers
Authors: Gallo Don
Published: March 2024

“Bold Books for Teenagers” provides dynamic, informative viewpoints on important issues in publishing and teaching contemporary literature, especially literature for adolescents. Reviews of young adult literature also appear in this column.
Plagiarism in the Information Age
Authors: Wilcox Bonita L.
Published: March 2024

Online technology and the fluid exchange of information it makes possible have made it all the easier for students to lift--intentionally or unintentionally--content from its infinite pages.
Profile: The Professional Legacy of Bill Martin Jr.
Authors: Patterson Elizabeth Underwood
Published: March 2024

Interviews teacher and children's author Bill Martin, Jr. over a three-year period. Traces his early years before highlighting his professional milestones. Describes themes that emerged from this study of Bill's career.
Reading Corner For Educators: Making Informational Literacy Practices Visible
Authors: Gebhard Meg , Keenan Rebecca , Willett Kara
Published: March 2024

Three books are reviewed that provide teachers with insights into the theoretical and practical aspects of students learning how to read and write nonfiction.
Messages to Ground Zero: Children Respond to September 11, 2001
Authors: Harwayne Shelley
Published: March 2024

Presents a collection of letters, poems, and artwork by children in response to the tragedy of September 11, 2001. Tells how students throughout the United States picked up their pens, pencils, crayons, markers, and paintbrushes, and attempted to make sense of this most incomprehensible act. Available in print version only.
Profile: Mildred D. Taylor: Keeper of Stories
Authors: Scales Pat
Published: March 2024

A profile article on Mildred D. Taylor.
Reading Corner For Children: 2002 Notable Children’s Books in the Language
Authors: Scharer Patricia L. , Armstrong Kathleen , Bushner Diane , Pavonetti Linda M. , Peterson Barbara , Yokota Junko , Young Terrell
Published: March 2024

Presents annotations of 30 titles selected for the 2002 Notable Children's Books in the Language Arts. Notes that the works share one or more of the following characteristics: deals explicitly with language, such as play on words, word origins, or the history of language; demonstrates uniqueness in the usage of language or style; or invites child response or participation.
Profile: Martha L. King: Language Arts Pioneer
Authors: Freeman Evelyn B.
Published: March 2024

Introduces “Language Arts” readers to a remarkable and inspirational woman whose contributions over more than four decades added immeasurably to the understandings of children’s oral language, critical reading, and writing. Lists multiple ways that Martha L. King’s impact on the field of language arts is reflected.
Negotiating for Positions of Powering a Primary Classroom
Authors: Denos Corey Hawes
Published: March 2024

A teacher explores the bullying behavior of a girl in her class to understand how kids negotiate for power within a learning community.
Drama Wor(l)ds: Explorations of Latina/o Realistic Fiction
Authors: Medina Carmen L.
Published: March 2024

This article looks at fifth gradersâ€™ interpretations of Friends from the other side/Amigos del tro lado by Chicana/Mexican American feminist writer Gloria AnzaldÃºa (1993). Drama-in-Education strategies were the pedagogical tools used to facilitate the studentsâ€™ engagement in dialogues that moved them from understanding aspects of the life and social reality of Mexican undocumented immigrants on the US/Mexico border to questioning issues of citizenship and justice. Three (3) overarching themes were identified that extended through the dialogues and the drama: First, Making sense of the issues, where the students began to talk and make sense of social issues presented in the text such as citizenship, representation and language. Second, Friendship and compassion. Finally, Becoming critical: Understanding the multiple perspectives involved.
Reading Corner for Educators: Addressing Social Inequalities through Literacy Education
Authors: Fu Danling , Lamme Linda Leonard , Fang Zhihui
Published: March 2024

Perceptions of race, class, and gender are culturally and socially shaped and form the roots for inequities in our society and our classrooms. In this column we review three books that question institutionalized perceptions of race and class. The authors examine the history of schooling that contributes to great divides among human races and ranks individuals based on race, speech, and class. These books posit that to question and examine our perception of race, class, and gender is the key to providing justice and equal education to ALL children, especially those who come from family backgrounds that are historically and socially marginalized.
Profile: Education as Political Work: An Interview with Sonia Nieto
Authors: Franquiz Maria E
Published: March 2024

Sonia Nieto is a strong advocate of multicultural literacy for all teachers and students, which she expresses through a profound respect for self and others.
Voicing Texts, Voices around Texts: Reading Poems in Elementary School Classrooms
Authors: Elster Charles A. , Hanauer David I.
Published: March 2024

This study examines how 10 kindergarten through 4thgrade teachers shared poems and stories with their students. Analysis focused on how teachers performed the texts, how children participated in reading the texts, and what kinds of discussions and curriculum activities surrounded the readings. Full text available in print issue only.
Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
Authors: Brown Deborah , Beavis Catherine , Kalman Judith , Rijlaarsdam Gert , Stinson Anne D’Antonio , Whiting Melissa E.
Published: March 2024

Deborah Brown, Catherine Beavis, Judith Kalman, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Anne D’Antonio Stinson, Melissa E. Whiting Twice a year, in the May and November issues, RTE publishes a selected bibliography of recent research in the teaching of English. The listing is selective; we make no attempt to include all research and research-related articles that appeared in the period under review.
Caring and the Teaching of English
Authors: White Brian
Published: March 2024

This article examines the notion of caring in the teaching of English. Although Nel Noddings’s work has paved the way for more caring approaches to teaching, aspects of her formulation must be reconsidered in order to ensure caring instruction for the most powerless and most needy students.
Announcing the Alan C. Purves Award Winner
Authors: Monahan Mary Beth , Majors Yolanda J. , Mershon Cynthia , Baroz Robert , Schneider Debra , Trier James
Published: March 2024

We are pleased to announce that Bob Fecho of The University of Georgia is the winner of the 2002 Alan C. Purves Award for his article “‘Why Are You DoingThis?’: Acknowledging and Transcending Threat in a Critical Inquiry Classroom.”
The Courage to Grow: A Researcher and Teacher Linking Professional Development with Small-Group Reading Instruction and Student Achievement
Authors: Estrada Peggy
Published: March 2024

A successful collaboration resulted in a researcher and a teacher linking professional development with change in small-group reading instruction and student achievement.
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
Authors: Beach Richard
Published: March 2024

The committee reviews important research works in the teaching of English that have been published in the last year. Committee members include Richard Beach, Martha Bigelow, Peggy DeLapp, Deborah Dillon, Lee Galda, Lori Helman, Julie Kalnin, Timothy Lensmire, and David Oâ€™Brien, Karen Jorgensen, Lauren Liang, Gert Rijlaarsdam, and Tanja Janssen.
The Reflection of "Students’ Right to Their Own Language" in First-Year Composition Course Objectives and Descriptions
Authors: Barbier Stuart
Published: March 2024

Reviews briefly the literature associated with the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s "Students’ Right to Their Own Language" statement. Explores the status of standard English at community colleges in Michigan, as expressed in first–year composition course objectives and descriptions. Considers the history of the standard written English objective at Delta College, a community college in mid–Michigan.
Asynchronous Online Discussion Forums: Going Vibrantly beyond the Shadow of the Syllabus
Authors: Cody Jim
Published: March 2024

Notes that asynchronous online discussion forums can enhance community college students’ education. Focuses on how online discussion forums uniquely contribute to the teaching and learning of community college students. Discusses benefits of the online discussion forum. Concludes that educators must continue identifying who students are, how they learn, and how they want and need to be educated, and then look for ways that technology can help.
What is “College-Level” Writing?
Authors: Sullivan Patrick
Published: March 2024

Is it possible to define what we mean by "college-level" writing?
Sentence Finishers, and Last Day
Authors: Malone Dave
Published: March 2024

2 poems by Dave Malone.
Harlem, History, and First-Year Composition: Reconstructing the Harlem of the 1930s through Multiple Research Methods
Authors: Wilson James
Published: March 2024

This article describes a first-year composition project in which the students assumed the role of historians, visiting the site of a riot and examining archival documents few researchers have ever studied.
On Wine, Cheese, and the Superlative role of Time in the Acquisition of English as a Second Language
Authors: Hermann Frank W.
Published: March 2024

This article discusses the time needed for limited-English-proficient (LEP) students to acquire proficiency in academic English and offers suggestions for helping instructors elicit the best possible performance from their ESL students until they have had sufficient time to achieve fluency.
Deracination and the D.I.S. in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Authors: Flores Becky
Published: March 2024

Implementing deracination and the D.I.S.â€”components of a developing critical thinking pedagogy termed decritiqueâ€”offer a more critically reflective alternative to classroom peer-review activities that mistakenly focus on a â€œnotion of caring"
Punk Power in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Authors: One Optimism
Published: March 2024

This essay frames the connections between punk principles and writing theory in order to re-form what the author emphasizes in his own composition classroom, in particular the do-it-yourself ethic, a sense of passion and fearlessness, the agency to attack institutions, and the seeking of pleasure.
Instructional Note: Bringing the Barroom into the Classroom: Breaking the Universal, Unspoken Rule
Authors: Luttrell Judy L.
Published: March 2024

This article describes how students gain the confidence and skill to write personal essays by practicing their natural ability to tell their own stories orally in social situations.
Why Teach about Social Class?
Authors: Shor Ira
Published: March 2024

Given the war that has been waged for several decades now against working students and their families, as well as against teachers, community college faculty are called upon to invent creative, local, and evolving knowledges of social class with their students.
Reviews: An Omnibus Review of Six Introductory Fiction Ahthologies
Authors: Sullivan James D.
Published: March 2024

Reviews of 6 books: An Omnibus Review of Six Introductory Fiction Ahthologies 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, 2nd ed., ed. Beverly Lawn; Fiction: A Pocket Anthology, 4th ed., ed. R. S. Gwynn; Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction, 10th ed., ed. James H. Pickering; Exploring Fiction: Writing and Thinking about Fiction, ed. Frank Madden; Understanding Fiction, ed. Judith Roof; The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction: Stories and Authors in Context, ed. Dana Gioia and R. S. Gwynn.
Playtime
Authors: Fine Esther Sokolov
Published: March 2024

Drama has served as an integral curriculum engagement across Canadian literacy educator Esther Fine’s career. From supporting the participation of the quietest students to helping resolve the conflicts of special education students, she has learned there is no equivalent.
The Promise of Drama Education: Voices from Britain
Authors: Pace Glenellen
Published: March 2024

Literacy and arts educator Glennellen Pace serves as an ambassador of sorts, pollinating the great practices between our two countries. Here she shares seven examples showcasing the use of drama in varied levels and varied contexts in Great Britain.
Toward a Constructive Analysis of Peers’ Writing
Authors: Muise Michael
Published: March 2024

By taking his students bowling, Michael Muise teaches them the importance of strong and substantive peer critique when revising one’s writing.
Story Time
Authors: Fine Esther Sokolov
Published: March 2024

This short essay presents a brief literary portrait of the author’s family and one of her students.
From the Editors
Authors: Altwerger Bess , Martens Prisca
Published: March 2024

Editors Bess Altwerger and Prisca Martens introduce readers to the articles in this issue of Talking Points and encourage all to attend the WLU Summer Institute in July.
Literature Study Groups: Support for Community Building in Democratic Classrooms
Authors: Whitmore Kathryn F.
Published: March 2024

The author argues for the value of literature study groups as a way of building community in the classroom and presents four key principles that teachers must consider and accept as they implement a literature study program.