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Implementing Speaking and Listening Standards: Information for English Teachers
Authors: Goulden Nancy Rost
Published: March 2024

States that many English teachers find themselves responsible for an expanded English curriculum that includes the (new) language arts of speaking and listening. Outlines practical ways teachers can incorporate appropriate instruction into a full curriculum. Offers specific information about the processes of informal speaking, formal speaking, speaking in small groups, and listening that teachers can use when planning instruction.
Software: Surfing the Internet: Sink or Swim!
Authors: Nellen Ted
Published: March 2024

Offers and explains three pieces of advice for using the Internet in language arts classes: become a student (have students train teachers to use the Internet and have student interns in computer rooms to assist teachers); “morph into a cybrarian” (create an on-line library of World Wide Web links related to class projects); and empower students.
Photography: First Place: Country Life
Authors: Turpie Jeanine
Published: March 2024

Available in print version only.
Poetry
Authors: Greenway William
Published: March 2024

Describes activities of college students in a “Poets in Schools” program that brings college students together with students in elementary and secondary schools. Describes how the students devised poetry teaching exercises, and describes three of those exercises (a multimedia approach, using photos and postcards, and poems like trees). Shares poems written by students in response to the exercises.
Photography: Honorable Mention: Garbage
Authors: Gentry Jeanette Hahnenkamp
Published: March 2024

Available in print version only.
Short Fiction: Honorable Mention: Short on Strength
Authors: Belben Cathy
Published: March 2024

Available in print version only.
Coming To Terms: Unravelling the Comma Splice
Authors: Klinck Anne L.
Published: March 2024

Argues that the prohibition against the comma splice has no logical basis whatsoever, and offers numerous examples. Maintains that English teachers should relax prohibitions against comma splices, accept that usage is flexible, and allow students a freedom which more confident writers take for granted.Argues that the prohibition against the comma splice has no logical basis whatsoever, and offers numerous examples. Maintains that English teachers should relax prohibitions against comma splices, accept that usage is flexible, and allow students a freedom which more confident writers take for granted.Argues that the prohibition against the comma splice has no logical basis whatsoever, and offers numerous examples. Maintains that English teachers should relax prohibitions against comma splices, accept that usage is flexible, and allow students a freedom which more confident writers take for granted.Argues that the prohibition against the comma splice has no logical basis whatsoever, and offers numerous examples. Maintains that English teachers should relax prohibitions against comma splices, accept that usage is flexible, and allow students a freedom which more confident writers take for granted.
Ten of My Writing Commandments
Authors: Alvarez Julia
Published: March 2024

Presents popular author and essayist Julia Alvarez’s 10 commandments of writing, portraying writing as a moral force, an ethical practice, and also mundane plain and simple hard work. The commandments are in the form of quotes from famous writers.
Re-Seeing Our Professional Face(s)
Authors: Okawa Gail Y.
Published: March 2024

In this article, Gail Y. Okawa discusses America’s “monoculturalism and ‘cultural myopia’,” how these affect teachers of color whom we so need as members of our profession, and how one teacher of color struggled to become a language arts teacher.
Books about Book Collecting for English Teachers
Authors: Donelson Ken
Published: March 2024

Offers comments from collectors and dealers on the wonders and all-around fun of collecting books. Presents a short annotated list of books about book collecting and notes one book that will make readers want to collect books. Lists a baker’s dozen of other sources on book collecting and presents three quotations to end the matter.
From Sense to Soul
Authors: Steiner Joan Naomi
Published: March 2024

Presents the presidential address given at the 1998 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference. Looks at basic principles supported by NCTE historically. Notes the widespread belief that educational problems can be solved by mandating one particular solution, and asks what NCTE’s role is in all of this.
Adding Voice and Perspective: Children’s and Young Adult Literature of the Civil War
Authors: Lott Carolyn , Wasta Stephanie
Published: March 2024

Describes a team-taught unit of study for 7th and 8th graders that used children’s and young adult literature to integrate language arts and social studies to teach students about the United States Civil War. Offers an overview of the unit, describes a typical class period, discusses the role of reflective journals, and offers student and teacher reflections.
New Wars, Old Battles: Contemporary Combat Fiction for the High School Canon
Authors: Withers Randal W.
Published: March 2024

Argues that teaching fiction focusing on recent wars enables students to better understand the impact of war on history, foreign policy, and their own way of life. Offers synopses of three contemporary antiwar novels (Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night,” Tim O’Brien’s “Going after Cacciato,” and Don Delillo’s “End Zone”). Explores the various themes of these works, inherent obstacles, and applications in the classroom.
The Community as Text: Using the Community for Collaborative Internet Research
Authors: Lawrence Dennis P.
Published: March 2024

Describes a year-long community research project used for the last seven years with the author’s senior English class, part of the web-based student research collaboration project called “The Kansas Collaborative Research Network” (KanCRN). Describes teaching students how to research their community; four on-line research tutorials; structure of research tutorials; publication of results; and other KanCRN tutorials.
Pictures of an Exhibition*: Senior Graduation Exit Projects as Authentic Research
Authors: Nicolini Mary B.
Published: March 2024

Describes a year-long I-search project in a high school senior English class that culminated in a graduation exhibition, in which students presented their research to a panel of adults from the school community whom they did not know. Describes the process of working on these topics throughout the year and describes 5 student presentations.
A Librarian’s Perspective on Research
Authors: Johnston Kathryn A.
Published: March 2024

Argues that librarians are natural collaborators with English teachers to improve education and support lifelong learning, assisting students in their learning and supporting teachers in their efforts to update skills and knowledge. Discusses how librarians can help with appropriate research assignments, finding the right sources, evaluating sources, and developing sophisticated research skills.
International English
Authors: Gerlach Jeanne Marcum
Published: March 2024

Presents a Ukrainian teacher’s impressions of American English teaching, and an American high school English teacher’s reflections about teaching English in the Ukraine. Notes the differences and similarities of teaching English in both countries.
Tearing Down the Wall: Literature and Science
Authors: Westcott Warren B. , Everett Spell J.
Published: March 2024

Suggests English teachers might draw from authors such as Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke, Mary Shelly and others: (1) to knock down the walls that separate science and literature; (2) to show their interrelationship; and (3) to instill enthusiasm for the study of both.
Building a New Generation of Democratic Citizens through Literature
Authors: Osburg Barbara
Published: March 2024

Describes a rigorous English curriculum designed for students of mixed ability and mixed cultural and racial backgrounds using the concept of education for democracy. Details a three-step process built on inheritance, participation, and contribution. Outlines the curriculum that includes a combination of traditional classics and the works of more diverse authors.
Reading and Writing in the Developmental English Class
Authors: Shafer Gregory
Published: March 2024

Relates how the author came into a generally contentious classroom of eleventh-grade developmental English students and how it became a place of cooperative reading and writing and critiquing through a democratic approach and a three-week project in which students wrote a fictional story via letter writing. Notes student’s involvement and enthusiasm.
Critical Analysis of Literature: Making the Connection between Reading and Writing
Authors: Gunther Michael A.
Published: March 2024

Describes an activity called “Critical Analysis of Literature.” Students read, think, debate, and write about controversial books, examining whether each novel should be included in the school curriculum. This teaches students to critically analyze information, develop an appreciation for literature, and develop a respect for thinking on their own.
Hopes of a New Harvest: Sowing Seeds of Understanding with Contemporary Literature
Authors: Quinn Anna L.
Published: March 2024

Argues that English and Language Arts teachers can counter the lessons of hate, violence, and bigotry by offering lessons that promote understanding and caring, through choices for reading and writing of literature that represent all ethnic groups. Discusses the author’s experiences teaching for many years in Mississippi, addressing the heritage of racial divide by including literature by African American writers.
Young Adult Literature: Peace-Keeping Forces: YA War Books
Authors: Crowe Chris
Published: March 2024

Argues that good young adult books about war can help teenagers appreciate the blessings of peace and the horrors of war, and perhaps may inspire them to do what they can to preserve peace. Describes briefly 71 young adult war books worth reading.
The Sauntering Eye
Authors: Schwartz Jeffrey
Published: March 2024

Describes a two-day interdisciplinary field trip for a group of 63 ninth graders that was followed up in the classroom with related units in history, art, biology, English, and drama. Describes how the students were challenged to use nature to discover who they were, observing closely and then letting go in order to think and connect.
What I Wish I’d Known about Teaching Spelling
Authors: Chandler Kelly
Published: March 2024

Describes what the author (a former high school English teacher) learned about teaching spelling to secondary students through a collaborative research project with a group of elementary school teachers. Analyzes four kinds of classroom-based data from that instruction, resulting in eight recommended teaching practices. Argues that well-targeted instruction can help high school students become accurate and independent spellers.
Nancie Atwell’s In the Middle and the Ongoing Transformation of the Writing Workshop
Authors: Taylor Marcy M.
Published: March 2024

Focuses on Nancie Atwell’s “In the Middle,” a seminal description of a middle school reading/writing workshop. Discusses how changes in the recently-published second edition show a revised conception of the teacher’s role, of writing workshop pedagogy. Discusses implications for writing teachers and for the training of teachers of the English arts.
Beyond the Red Pen: Clarifying Our Role in the Response Process
Authors: Bardine Bryan A. , Bardine Molly Schmitz , Deegan Elizabeth F.
Published: March 2024

Describes two research studies with high school teachers and students that examine various aspects of both students’ and teachers’ perspectives on teacher responses to student writing. Examines how well teachers put their own theory about writing instruction into practice with their response style; analyzes teacher comments and students’ understanding of them; and offers the teachers’ responses to the studies.
The Tower of Babel and the Teaching of Grammar: Writing Instruction for a New Century
Authors: Martinsen Amy
Published: March 2024

Considers the teaching of grammar and its importance in the writing classroom. Examines what grammar is; why writing instruction has moved away from grammar; differing opinions regarding grammar and writing instruction; and grammar’s place in the writing classroom of the new century. Argues that grammar must be applied to students’ own writing.
Teaching Tools: American Literature and the World Wide Web
Authors: Claxton Mae Miller , Cooper C. Camille
Published: March 2024

Discusses 13 resources available to teachers of American literature on the World Wide Web including general resources, Internet sites related to electronic literature, and websites whose focus is American literature and culture. Discusses using and troubleshooting the World Wide Web in the classroom. Offers tips on how to evaluate web sources and presents two projects that can be used in classes.
Grouping Students at the Computer to Enhance the Study of British Literature
Authors: Marr Paula M.
Published: March 2024

Describes a three-week project in an English classroom in which students in small, mixed-ability groups used PowerPoint to enhance a unit on British literature. Outlines the lesson itself and discusses its positive results, including peer-teaching and learning, improved student motivation to understand themes in poetry, positive socialization, and learning to be a team player. Notes further teaching ideas integrating technology.
Changing Talk About Text: New Roles for Teachers and Students
Authors: Gavelek James R. , Raphael Taffy E.
Published: March 2024

Many language arts educators champion discussion as a way of building and deepening reader response to literature. This article of- fers a theoretical perspective on how and why different ways of talking about text can be so important for learning to read literature.
“That’s Not Fair!”: A White Teacher Reports on White First Graders’ Responses to Multicultural Literature
Authors: Macphee Joyce S.
Published: March 2024

Promoting understanding of a variety of cultures is a high priority for many language teachers today. But what can teachers do when there is little diversity in their school or community?
Language and Literacy: The Poetry Connection
Authors: Strickland Dorothy S. , Strickland Michael R.
Published: March 2024

Poetry is often overlooked as a form of literature through which children can reflect on language in interesting and powerful ways.
On the Road to Cultural Bias: A Critique of The Oregon Trail CD-ROM
Authors: Bigelow Bill
Published: March 2024

The benefits of educational software have been well documented as more and more classrooms use computers as part of the curriculum. But, as this article stresses, teachers and students need to be critical of the cultural and environmental ideologies these softwares represent and to address any biases.
Let’s Go to the Movies: Rethinking the Role of Film in the Elementary Classroom
Authors: Whipple Michele
Published: March 2024

Argues that elementary language-arts teachers should expand their definition of "text" to include film, a valuable instructional material. Notes that today’s elementary students come to class with a great deal of knowledge about films--prior experiences which teachers can tap into. Discusses the application to film of reader-response theories.
Engagement, Conflict, and Avoidance in a Whole Language Classroom
Authors: Kucer Stephen B.
Published: March 2024

Explores the different responses to a whole-language curriculum of two average third-grade students. Describes the teacher and the curriculum, and the contrasting literacy behaviors of the students. Discusses how this year-long observation challenged the author’s beliefs about children’s need for whole-language instruction.
In Search of an Honest Response
Authors: Swaim James
Published: March 2024

James Swaim, a teacher researcher working with third and fourth graders, looks over time at how his research has refined his views of the writing process and his role as a teacher.
Patricia Polacco
Authors: Gilles Carol , Dickinson Jean , Loesing Jenine
Published: March 2024

Highlights the work of author/illustrator Patricia Polacco. Discusses her picture books in terms of themes, including family stories; "passed down" stories featuring a babushka; stories that emphasize diverse communities; stories that contain magic or a miracle; and stories that help to raise social consciousness.
Books for Summer Reading
Authors: Beck Cathy , Bargiel Susie , Koblitz Dick , O’Connor Anne , Pierce Kathryn Mitchell , Wolf Susan
Published: March 2024

Describes what some fifth-grade students read in the summer and why. Discusses 39 children’s books in the following categories: summer experiences, trips and journeys, family experiences, and the lives of children in troubled times. Offers an excerpt from a discussion of middle school readers in response to reading the books on children in troubled times.
Finding the “Right Measure” of Explanation for Young Latina/o Writers
Authors: Zecker Liliana Barro , Pappas Christine C. , Cohen Sarah
Published: March 2024

Describes a second-grade teacher-researcher’s efforts to foster her Latino/a students’ growth in writing. Focuses on her strategies (sometimes successful, sometimes not) to make the tacit aspects of writing explicit to her bilingual students via classroom talk. Searches for the right measure of explanation in two areas: fostering revision and genre distinctions.
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
Authors: Apol Laura , Harris Jodi
Published: March 2024

Discusses the efforts of a fifth-grade teacher and a visiting poet to rekindle students’ sense of poetic passion and pleasure. Describes how the authors introduced students to poems for two voices (using P. Fleischman’s "Joyful Noise"). The poetry unit culminated in a project in which students read and performed Fleischman’s poems, then wrote and performed their own poems for two voices.
Mastering Metaphor through Poetry
Authors: Steinbergh Judith W.
Published: March 2024

Uses examples of children’s poetry to illustrate both the power of metaphor and the possibilities of poetry in the development of metaphor. Traces children’s development in creation of metaphor from kindergarten through eighth grade. Looks at early demonstration of metaphor use and the expanded use of metaphor to describe complex concepts and relationships.
Know Thyself and Understand Others
Authors: Schmidt Patricia Ruggiano
Published: March 2024

Discusses research on the need for, and the characteristics of, culturally aware and responsive teachers. Outlines a model for preservice and inservice teachers that focuses upon the development of culturally relevant pedagogy in the context of a multicultural-literacy learning course. Describes how teachers who have taken the multicultural-literacy course have applied the model in their classrooms.
Why Systematic Phonics and Phonemic Awareness Instruction Constitute an Educational Hazard
Authors: Smith Frank
Published: March 2024

Frank Smith argues that systematic phonics is destined to fail as a method of reading instruction and will make learning to read more difficult for many children. Phonics-focused instruction fails to understand or ignores how children actually learn to read; the time to learn phonics, if at all, is during reading; and phonemic awareness is spurious. Smith reveals the ideological and commercial focus of such methods.
Talking to Write: A Mother and Son at Home
Authors: Kelso Elizabeth Baumann
Published: March 2024

Describes how the author participated in her son Carl’s writing process at home when she realized his growing resistance to writing in school in the second grade. Examines the in-class composing process and Carl’s frustrations. Describes how she became Carl’s scribe at home as he gradually discovered that writing could be a symbolic representation of his own voice.
Staying on Children: Challenging Stereotypes about Urban Parents
Authors: Compton-Lilly Catherine
Published: March 2024

Interviews poor urban parents and first-grade students about attitudes toward school and education. Finds parents are committed to their children’s success in school. Examines things parents do to keep their children on track; parents’ descriptions of teachers in their own lives; how grandparents help keep students “on track”; and the teacher’s role from the perspective of students and parents.
It’s Not Really Writing, It’s Just answering the Questions
Authors: Rogers Rebecca L.
Published: March 2024

Explores how family literacy practices are connected to social institutions that sustain or transform participants’ awareness or reproduction of class identities and the inequities inherent in these interactions. Looks at the complexity of one African-American, working-poor family’s literacy practices in their connections to social institutions.
I Read for Facts: Reading Nonfiction in a Fictional World
Authors: Hynes Myrna
Published: March 2024

The key to helping one adolescent make the transition from non-reader to reader was changing his self-image as a non-reader. This article shows how he became actively engaged in reading and writing when he felt valued, took risks, and developed his own ideas—more closely aligning his life within school and outside school.
Escapists, Butterflies, and Experts: Stance Alignment in Literacy Texts
Authors: Flint Amy Seely
Published: March 2024

Examines the discrepancies in engagement that arose when the teachers’ instructional and the students’ personal stances (regarding the intents and purposes of literacy) are misaligned during literacy events. Discusses the ways in which instructional and personal stances encourage and/or discourage engagement. Considers the opportunity to construct interpretations of texts while discussing literature and other related literacy events in class.
Wasn’t That a Spelling Word?: Spelling Instruction and Young Children’s Writing
Authors: Rymer Rebecca , Williams Cheri
Published: March 2024

In this article, a teacher and a university professor examine the effects of spelling instruction.
Talking About Books: “Mem’s the Word”: Examining the Writing of Mem Fox
Authors: Gilles Carol
Published: March 2024

Focuses on the work of Mem Fox. Explores Fox’s life in order to better understand her work; examines books she has written for teachers and for parents; and reviews her children’s books, emphasizing children’s and teachers comments. Looks at best-loved books, bedtime books, predictable books for early readers, books that play with language, and books that appeal to older readers.
Evaluation and Teachers’ Perceptions of Gender in Sixth-Grade Student Writing
Authors: Peterson Shelley
Published: March 2024

Examines the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of gender-related differences in grade 6 students’ narrative writing and teachers’ scoring of five student narrative papers. Finds that teachers observed gender-related narrative writing characteristics that were consistent with researchers’ analyses of children’s narrative writing.
Coach Bombay’s Kids Learn to Write: Children’s Appropriation oof Media Material for School Literacy
Authors: Dyson Anne Haas
Published: March 2024

Examines the “whats” and “hows” of first-grade urban children’s appropriation of sports and sports-related media material for participation in unofficial peer worlds and official academic ones. Reveals the potential hybrid nature of even the earliest of children’s written texts. Suggests that learning to write involves work of the imagination on the part of children and teachers.
The Rewards of a Publication of Student Writings
Authors: Boese Peggy , Byrne Mary Ellen , Silverman Louise
Published: March 2024

Publishing student writing from all levels of an English program motivates students, provides instructional models, and validates the process approach.
Instructional Note: Sestinas and Villanelles from the Inner City
Authors: Vertreace Martha Modena
Published: March 2024

Modeling established poetic forms can help students write poetry.
Instructional Note Â· Using Performance as an Interpretative Strategy in Teaching Robert Browning’s "My Last Duchess"
Authors: Schevera Nicholas
Published: March 2024

Uses role-playing, dramatic monologues, and "tableaux vivant" to interpret Robert Browning’s poem "My Last Duchess" in an introductory literature class at Westchester Community College. Notes that performative strategies illustrate connections in the poem that often remain unnoticed on a first reading.
Mitigating Barriers to Navajo Students Success in English Courses
Authors: Thurston Kay
Published: March 2024

Discusses the tremendous barriers to success in college that Navajo students face. Discusses five major forms: financial difficulty, family obligations, prescriptive attitudes toward Standard American English, instructor/faculty ethnocentrism, and ambivalence toward Western education. Discusses ways faculty can work to mitigate these barriers as well as those faced by all minority culture students.
Writing for the Ignorant Reader
Authors: LeJeune Susan G.
Published: March 2024

Susan LeJeune, in “Writing for the Ignorant Reader”, outlines a process for improving student writing. Class members playing the role of “the ignorant reader,” ask the writer questions to which they don’t have an answer.
Instructional Note Using the Talk Show to “Talk Back” to O’Connor’s “Good CountryPeople”
Authors: Schevera Nicholas
Published: March 2024

Describes how a teacher of a college introductory-literature course used role-playing, a talk-show format, and reader-audience participation to help students make collaborative meaning for, and to promote students’ active engagement with a Flannery O’Connor short story.
Double Vision: Faculty as Student
Authors: Byrne Mary Ellen
Published: March 2024

Discusses the experience of the author (a college teacher) as a student in another teacher’s Native-American literature course. Looks at the classroom from both sides of the desk, assessing the course, evaluating her own learning experience, and gaining new perspectives on today’s two-year college students.
The Shared Discourse of the Networked Computer Classroom
Authors: Irvin L. Lennie
Published: March 2024

Argues that networked classrooms offer a number of opportunities for effective writing instruction. Argues that shared discourse in the networked-computer classroom has three levels forming a continuum of interactivity: students sending messages “at,” “to,” and “between” each other. Offers classroom examples of each level of discourse.
The Genesis and Early Development of TETYC: A Silver Anniversary Reminiscence
Authors: Sparrow W. Keats
Published: March 2024

Discusses the development of “Teaching English in the Two-Year College,” a journal designed to serve the special needs of community college English faculty. Discusses success and subsequent growth of the journal and considers the different subject matters addressed throughout the first five developmental years of the journal.
The Wild Audacity of Her Perfect Triumph
Authors: Patterson John
Published: March 2024

Gives tribute to Bertie Carlyle Edwards Fearing (1943-1995), one of the three senior editors of “Teaching English in the Two-Year College.” Characterizes Bertie as a person with “style,” always focused on the task at hand, and recruiting staff members with Mensa-level intellects and showing them by her example how to work together harmoniously through the editing process.
Letters from Retirement
Authors: Wylie Robert W.
Published: March 2024

Presents a long-time two-year college teacher’s reflections on retirement and the profession. Discusses ways in which to continue writing and working after retirement. Considers the politics of regional, local, and national English organizations in terms of what’s best for the teachers and students. Sums up in seven assertions what he has learned in 47 years of teaching.
Relating Revision Skills to Teacher Commentary
Authors: Sweeney Marilyn Ruth
Published: March 2024

Considers how the revising skills of basic writing students improve when they receive both inductive and deductive teacher feedback. Finds that students who received inductive feedback changed their largest percent of errors when given oral conferences and students who received deductive feedback changed their smallest number of errors when given oral feedback.
Instructional Note “We think he means …”: Creating Working Definitions through Small Group Discussion
Authors: Fleck Andrew
Published: March 2024

Discusses how defining key terms in context helps students understand and retain concepts. Considers how implementing small-group discussion dramatically changed the classroom dynamics and involved more students in the discovery process. Finds that in small peer groups, students are more inclined to ask questions and help each other clarify their thinking.
Yes, I Would Say
Authors: Layton Marilyn Smith
Published: March 2024

Notes that students today do not seem less prepared and less literate than students 30 years ago, but they do seem less loved and cared for. Uses examples of Morrie Schwartz, John Stanford, and one particular classroom community to argue that teachers must create classrooms in which empathy and reciprocity open the hearts and heads of students and teachers.
Antigone on the Night Shift: Classics in the Contemporary Classroom
Authors: Devenish Alan
Published: March 2024

Examines community college students’ choices of favorite works after a one-year composition and literature course. Finds “Antigone” was the favorite. Claims Greek classical works put students in contact with a distant culture that they find intriguing. Suggests juxtaposing a classical work with one from another time and culture to avoid assuming the classics into a rigid cultural hegemony.
REVIEWS
Authors: Shafer Gregory , Ferrario Larry , Carter Ron , Cranmer David
Published: March 2024

Reviews four books: Reading Poverty, by Patrick Shannon; Race, Rhetoric, and Composition, ed. by Keith Gilyard; Technology and Literacy in the Twenty-First Century: The Importance of Paying Attention, by Cynthia L. Selfe; Critical Thinking, Thoughtful Writing: A Rhetoric with Readings, by John Chaffee with Christine McMahon and Barbara Stout
Social Utility and Needs-Based Education: Writing Instruction at the Early Junior College
Authors: DeGenaro William
Published: March 2024

Notes how early junior college compositionists sought to socialize a largely working-class student body into a middle-class sensibility. Argues that educators must make time to create historical narratives of two-year colleges as a valuable precursor to fighting for institutional reforms within institutions. Analyzes the manner that curriculum builders in the 1920s and 1930s constructed first-year writing courses at junior colleges.
Professional Voices/Classroom Portrait: Poetry in Science
Authors: Robertson Jackie
Published: March 2024

Describes how a seventh-grade teacher incorporated poetry writing into her science class, helping students to learn the science material and helping the teacher to evaluate the students’ knowledge.
Becoming Proactive: The Quiet Revolution
Authors: Fleischer Cathy , Hayes-Parvin Kathleen , King Julie A.
Published: March 2024

Describes how some middle school teachers in Michigan are becoming proactive in their work to educate and reach out to parents on a day-to-day basis. Describes strategies for community building, for informing parents, and for involving parents. The teachers use these strategies as they inform parents about pedagogical practices and explain why those practices are part of their classrooms.
Message from the Editors
Authors: Rief Linda , Barbieri Maureen
Published: March 2024

The articles in this themed issue, “Teaching under Fire,” are authored by people who were willing to think and write about difficult issues that they might not have thought deeply about if they had not started to express themselves. Writing about struggling with conflict takes us into uncertain territory that we need to explore in order to address the complex dilemmas that face us every day in our classrooms.
Dramatized Experience: Civil Discourse, Sensitive Issues
Authors: Romano Tom
Published: March 2024

Describes the author’s experience when the director and teacher-trainers of a writing program persuaded him that the oral interpretation he wished them to perform was too troubling and explosive to use. Outlines his questions and anguish about the incident, and the urgency of dealing with the dilemmas of multiculturalism, racial intolerance, and the teaching of writing.
BOOK TALK: Finding the Thread: Character, Setting and Theme
Authors: Lesesne Teri
Published: March 2024

An annotated bibliography of books that exemplify the plot elements, character, setting, and theme. Includes guidelines on how to do a book talk.
Mining for Gems: The Making of Readers and Writers
Authors: Thomas Pat
Published: March 2024

Considers how to develop students’ passion for language and how to get them to stop and look at word choice. Defines a “gem” as a word, phrase, or sentence that is particularly remarkable or moving. Describes working with students to notice the gems, design gem journals, write their own gems, and to create future gems.
Ensino e aprendências das danças populares:
Authors: Celina de Morais Renata , Amoroso Daniela Maria
Published: March 2024

O estudo se concentra em fazer uma retomada histórica sobre as concepções epistemológicas presentes no ensino, desde os currículos da educação básica ao ensino superior. A vertente considerada é a da presença contínua de conteúdos eurocêntricos que vem permeando o ensino no país desde os séculos anteriores, colocando os saberes do povo, da nossa terra, como coadjuvantes ou mesmo silenciados nos currículos. O aporte teórico está fundamentado nas proposições educacionais de Freire (2014), nas considerações sobre o currículo sistematizadas por Silva (2019) e Castro-Gomez (2007) e retomadas historicamente por Carvalho (2019). As problematizações  se ancoram nas reflexões de Kilomba (2019) e dialogam com as vias práticas para o ensino da dança popular, desenvolvidas por Ligiéro (2011), entre outros autores que fortalecem o discurso aqui compartilhado. Como resultado, trazemos uma possibilidade de trabalho teórico-prático para o ensino das danças populares repetindo a tríade de Ligiéro e adicionando a ‘contextualização’ como mais uma vértice a ser inserida como princípio metodológico.
Movimento e Experiência nas preferências de aprendizagem do grupo Corpo Composto
Authors: Consorte Giovana , Monteiro Elisabete
Published: March 2024

Este artigo é recorte da pesquisa que desenvolvemos no âmbito do Doutoramento em Motricidade Humana, na especialidade de Dança, na Universidade de Lisboa, e tem como propósito investigar se o estudo direcionado do movimento influencia as preferências de aprendizagem dos sujeitos para além da sala de dança. Caracterizada como um estudo de caso de cunho qualitativo, busca tecer considerações sobre o papel do movimento do corpo na aprendizagem, a partir da experiência dos adolescentes integrantes do Grupo Corpo Composto – coletivo de pesquisa em dança e adolescência, da cidade de Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás. Para esta escrita apresentamos o caso, referencial teórico e metodologia que amparam a investigação longitudinal. Apresentamos a percepção subjetiva da experiência e as preferências de movimento por meio da análise de entrevistas pela ótica Bakhtiniana, através da Análise Dialógica do Discurso (ADD). As respostas obtivas contribuem para a identificação dos primeiros indícios de resposta.
Somática e Prática como Pesquisa em Dança
Authors: Pizarro Diego , Fernandes Ciane , Scialom Melina
Published: March 2024

O texto traça reflexões sobre os atravessamentos do campo da Somática e da metodologia emergente da Prática como Pesquisa (PaR) no contexto artístico-acadêmico dos Estudos em Dança. Por meio de premissas em desdobramento desses fazeres na pesquisa em/com Arte na atualidade, buscamos delinear aspectos gerais de suas epistemologias. Esta síntese em processo é uma ação ampliada – que seguirá em publicações futuras – de aprofundamento em tópicos que carecem discussões mais aprofundadas na área da pesquisa em Dança no país.
Ultrasonographic Assessment of Liver Size and its Association to Selected Morphometric Parameters of Domestic Dogs in Accra, Ghana
Authors: Asare-Dompreh Kweku , Kwadwo Antwi William , Abbiw Richard , Danso Acheampong Obed , Enyetornye Ben , Botwe Benard Ohene , Matey Ebenezer Tawiah , Agbenyah Joel , Johnson Sherry Ama Mawuko
Published: March 2024

Introduction: The global unpopularity of linear ultrasonographic measurement, due to its inherent subjectivity, contrasts with the safety, portability, low cost, and real-time capabilities of this imaging modality. The increased availability of ultrasounds in veterinary practice in Ghana presents an opportunity to provide ultrasonographic liver size reference ranges to aid the diagnosis of hepatopathies in domestic dogs. Therefore, this study sought to establish ultrasonographic liver size reference ranges of dogs in Accra, Ghana. It also aimed to to investigate the correlation between liver size and selected morphometric parameters in these domestic dogs.
Materials and methods: A total of 60 dogs from different domestic breeds, sexes (27 males and 33 females), age ranges (2.82 ± 2.12 years), weights (28.83 ±9.98kg), and body conformation were sampled. Purposive sampling of dogs was performed based on presenting history, clinical signs, physical exam, and blood analysis. Blood samples were collected for serum biochemistry to distinguish between those classified as healthy and those presenting with clinical illness. Additionally, all dogs were subjected to linear ultrasonographic liver size measurements in longitudinal and transverse planes.
Results: The findings indicated a strong positive correlation of mean longitudinal sonographic liver measurement with body height, body girth (the widest point of the chest and the rib cage), the distance between the last rib and the tuber coxa, and the distance between the xiphoid and the tuber ischium. Equations were derived from the mean longitudinal sonographic measurement and these body parameters for deep and non-deep-chested breeds. This study helped to establish equations that can be used to estimate the longitudinal liver measurement.
Conclusion: This information can be used in clinical settings to help veterinarians (even with basic knowledge of hepatic ultrasonography) to have a fair idea of hepatopathies relating to size.
Investigating Rabies Prevention and Control: A Study of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Jimma Town, South-Western Ethiopia
Authors: Rago Ramla , Abafaji Gazali , Zakir Abadura Sadik
Published: March 2024

Introduction: Ethiopia has the second highest number of human rabies deaths among African countries. However, the lack of public awareness regarding rabies prevention and control is a major obstacle in combating this disease. To address this issue, the current study was conducted in Jimma Town, southwestern Ethiopia, to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of households regarding rabies and its associated factors.
Materials and methods: The current community-based cross-sectional study was carried out, involving a total of 421 participants. The KAP of the respondents was evaluated using principal component analysis and ranked accordingly.
Results: Out of the 421 study participants, 53% were female and 63.4% were male. Among the participants, 62.3% demonstrated an adequate level of knowledge, 51% exhibited a positive attitude, and 43% practiced effective prevention and control measures against rabies. On the other hand, younger and male participants were found to have positive attitudes towards rabies. The study revealed that individuals with lower levels of education, specifically those who had not completed college as well as the unemployed and those without dogs had poor knowledge attitudes, and practices about rabies.
Conclusion: These findings highlight the need to improve the understanding and awareness of rabies within the community.
Der Einfluss von Recyclingmaterial auf die Eigenschaften von Beton
Authors: Reiners Jochen , Höffgen Jan , Denu Maureen , Müller Christoph , Dehn Frank
Published: March 2024

In recent years, the increasing scarcity of resources, particularly in the area of aggregates in the construction industry, as well as the recognition of the need for a circular economy in concrete construction, has led to a greater focus on the use of recycled materials. Recycled concrete aggregates in particular are increasingly being used. However, as these can have an impact on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete, it is important to analyse their influence. This article therefore deals with the production, mechanical behaviour, durability properties and fire behaviour of concretes containing recycled aggregates. In addition, accompanying scientific programmes such as an AiF joint research project at the VDZ/KIT are presented. As a positive environmental impact is the goal when using recycled materials, the life cycle assessment of concrete with recycled aggregates is highlighted in this article. As cement in particular is decisive for the environmental impacts of concrete, the approach of using recycled concrete fines as a cement main constituent is also addressed.
Understanding Public Sentiment Towards Crypto Assets
Authors: Maulida Syahdatul
Published: March 2024

This study aims to examine the evolution of public sentiment towards crypto assets. The research approach involves sentiment analysis methodology utilizing the SentiStrength v2.3 software. The data utilized in this study is secondary and obtained from scholarly publications indexed in the Scopus database. A total of 112 scholarly publications related to the research topic were identified. The research findings indicate that positive sentiment accounts for 27%, negative sentiment for 34%, and neutral sentiment contributes 39%. Further analysis reveals that the year 2023 marked a period with the highest number of sentiments, with positive sentiment dominating with 23 sentiments. This sentiment analysis method provides an in-depth understanding of the dynamics of public perception towards crypto assets, and these findings can offer valuable insights into the trends and shifts in sentiment that occur over time. Sentiment analysis can offer deep insights into how cryptocurrencies are perceived by the public and how these perceptions evolve in line with changes in social and economic contexts.
OBSTÁCULOS E IMPACTOS DO ESTÁGIO SUPERVISIONADO EM EDUCAÇÃO FÍSICA NO ENSINO MÉDIO
Authors: Nery Eldernilson de Lima , Ramos Euniani Aparecida dos Santos , Ramos Jaqueline Pereira , Sales Marcilene Teixeira , Fernandes Ruth do Socorro Martins
Published: March 2024

Este relato de experiência tem como objetivo apresentar a vivência dos graduandos de Licenciatura em Educação Física durante o Estágio Supervisionado III, que foi realizado no âmbito do Ensino Médio. A pesquisa foi conduzida por meio de uma abordagem qualitativa de pesquisa de campo. O estudo foi descritivo, envolvendo a coleta de dados por meio da técnica de observação dos alunos e professores da EEEM Marcílio Dias. Na referida escola, foi observado que os professores, que ocupam cargos temporários, são formados em Educação Física e realizaram atividades em todas as séries de forma igualitária, com o objetivo de promover conhecimento e preparação para os jogos internos escolares denominados Jogos Marcilianos-JOMAR. Os resultados revelaram desafios como a falta de recursos adequados e a necessidade de adaptação diante das adversidades. Além disso, destacou-se a importância do acompanhamento e orientação dos professores regentes. A pesquisa contribui para uma compreensão mais abrangente e o aprimoramento das práticas pedagógicas no Ensino Médio, com o propósito de proporcionar uma educação de qualidade.
Aproximações sobre o conceito de propriedade em Locke e Schopenhauer
Authors: Edart Vinícius
Published: March 2024

O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar o conceito de propriedade na teoria de Arthur Schopenhauer, contida principalmente na obra Parerga und Paralipomena e a teoria de John Locke, expressa no Segundo tratado sobre o governo civil e estabelecer relações entre os conceitos, de modo a demonstrar as semelhanças enquanto direito natural e suas diferenças enquanto direito positivado na teoria dos dois filósofos.
Analisis Kinerja Perusahaan Menggunakan Balanced Scorecard Pada Pt Perkebunan Nusantara II
Authors: Gunadi Siagian Desmon , Jenny Sirait Katrin
Published: March 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kinerja PT. Perkebunan Nusantara IV (Persero) Medan jika diukur dengan balanced scorecard. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif. Data yang digunakan adalah data primer dan sekunder. Metode pengumpulan data adalah wawancara dan dokumentasi, dan analisis data adalah menggunakan data deskriptif dan perhitungan. Hasil penelitian yang dapat disimpulkan adalah PT. Perkebunan Nusantara IV (Persero) Medan sudah menerapkan balanced scorecard sebagai pengukur kinerjanya. Kinerja perusahaan pada perspektif pertumbuhan dan pembelajaran menunjukkan hasil yang baik yang ditandai dengan peningkatan organizational capital, peningkatan pemberian motivasi, dan akses informasi yang baik. PT. Perkebunan Nusantara IV (Persero) Medan melakukan inovasi terus menerus dan berhasil menghasilkan produk yang berstandar internasional menunjukkan kinerja pada perspektif bisnis internal yang baik. Kinerja perusahaan pada perspektif pelanggan menunjukkan adanya peningkatan pada jumlah pelanggan dan meningkatnya kepuasan pelanggan, dan pada perspektif keuangan menunjukkan adanya penurunan pendapatan perusahaan, penurunan ROI, dan rasio operasi yang disebabkan menurunnya harga komoditi.
Phish Catcher: Client-Side Defense against Web-Spoofing Attacks Using Machine Learning
Authors:   Department of Computer Science Engineering Sanketika Vidya Parishad Engineering College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, Pavan Kumar Suvvari , Srihari Vudutala , Manohar Kadavati , Srinidhi Pappala , Lakshmi Dr. K.N.S.
Published: March 2024

Cybersecurity faces a significant challenge in safeguarding users' confidential information, such as passwords and PIN codes, from phishing attacks. These attacks, which employ various deceptive tactics like fake login pages, phishing emails, and click-jacking, aim to trick users into divulging sensitive data. Traditional security strategies often encounter issues of latency and accuracy in detecting these fraudulent activities. To address this challenge, we propose a client-side defense mechanism leveraging machine learning techniques to detect spoofed web pages and protect users from phishing attacks. In this work, we introduce Phish Catcher, a Google Chrome extension developed as a proof of concept for our machine learning-based approach. Phish Catcher utilizes a random forest classifier trained on four types of web features to classify URLs as suspicious or trustworthy. To evaluate the effectiveness of our extension, we conducted experiments on real web applications, testing 400 classified phishing URLs and 400 legitimate URLs. The results demonstrate a remarkable accuracy and precision of 98.5% for detecting spoofed web pages. Furthermore, we assessed the latency of Phish Catcher by measuring its response time over forty phished URLs. The average recorded response time was just 62.5 milliseconds, indicating minimal impact on user experience while providing robust protection against phishing attacks. Overall, our approach offers a highly accurate and efficient solution for detecting phishing attempts, thereby enhancing user security and mitigating the risks associated with online fraud.