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Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?" When a professor dropped this question into a colloquium for young college teachers in 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, most people shuffled their feet. For Mary Rose O'Reilley, it was a question that would not go away, The Peaceable Classroom records one attempt to answer it. Out of her own experience, primarily as a college English teacher, she writes about certa...

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Recasting the Text, a companion volume to Learning the Landscape, provides activities that help students explore multiple ways of reading and re-creating a text in various forms.

In this refreshingly different text, students engage in a variety of learning activities. Each asks them to examine how they observe, perceive, and respond to literature.

Taking the position that assessment is useful only as it is aligned with curriculum, Fran Claggett considers how to frame assignments and how to assess them.

Learning to Write/Writing to Learn provides a basic guide to writing as a way of learning, drawing the reader into an expanded notion of what writing is and how it is created.

A classic since its original publication twenty-five years ago, Introduction to the Short Story is now revised and expanded, with the addition of six stories new to this fourth edition.

Bob Boynton and Maynard Mack's intent from the first has been to suggest ways of approaching a poem that will make it more understandable and enjoyable--to introduce students to the art of reading poetry.

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Attending to the Margins crosses regional, institutional, gender, rank, and racial lines, providing new insight into how best to teach traditionally excluded students.

Textual Orientations examines two emerging, mutually illuminating fields: rhetoric and composition and lesbian and gay studies. It is a thorough, fascinating study of the complex rhetorical features in operation for lesbian and gay students in college writing classes. The research from which the book evolves centers on an unusual situation: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual writers together in a class for which lesbian and gay experienc...

A collection of essays by well-known scholars and teachers in reading comprehension theory and literary criticism, particularly reader-response approaches.

The purpose of this book is to provide teachers, librarians, and scholars of adolescent literature with a discussion of fiction set in the Middle Ages.

This book joins the continuing debate over cultural literacy, but offers a new point of view - the students'.

Schoolwise offers a new and needed kind of research by classroom teachers. It is a work of synthesis, dealing with the broad topic of thinking and learning from an interdisciplinary perspective. Joan Barickman uses sociology, psychology, medicine, cognitive sciences, literature, and popular culture to inform her observations, but she always begins with individuals. The book is about real teachers, real children, real schools, real pain, and re...

Feminist Empirical Research is designed to introduce those who are interested in feminism, or already attempting to conduct empirical research in feminist ways, to theoretical and methodological discussions as well as practical strategies that can help not only feminist empirical researchers, but empirical researchers in general.

The Boynton/Cook edition of Romeo and Juliet has been reissued with an attractive new cover design and printed on more opaque, easy-to-read paper. This series is specifically designed for high school classes.