Sneak Peek at the May 2018 College English
…an engaging exploration of Wikipedia in terms of the ways in which it circulates representation and the pedagogical possibilities offered by its conferral of identity. In “Sorority Rhetorics as Everyday…
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Authors Speak Out on Reading without Censorship
…dehumanizing effect of referring to an enemy with such terms as ‘gooks’ and ‘slants’. When I write a book that is liable to be challenged it is because I have…
Celebrate the Birthdays of Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling!
…things we want our students to be exposed to in a critical thinking class: literary terms and their application to literature, critical thinking, and writing analytical essays. The English Journal…
Sneak Peek at the July 2018 English Journal
…implement various forms of assessment. We began our term as editors of EJ with appreciation of the complexities of these tensions, and our interactions with hundreds of authors over the…
Open Call for Resolutions
…clauses that denote actions that the organization wants to undertake. Resolutions differ from sense-of-the-house motions in terms of their length, how they are handled once they are submitted, and who…
Truth’s in Need of Truth Today: Public Education in Troubled Times
…literacy, and the effects of racial injustice on schools, our society, and our children. We know that homework has little effect on learning, retention has long-term negative effects, and that…
Peek Inside July Language Arts
…of contents for the July Language Arts. Expanding Critical Literacy: Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples The theoretical term I highlight in this column is Critical Indigenous Literacies (Reese, 2013). Critical…
What Happened in Your State in June?
…a new report from Third Way, Carol Booth Olson noted that the University of California system occupies five of the top ten slots in terms of graduating students with Pell…
Connecting with Students’ Prior Knowledge
…the text in which it’s presented, they have no hope of understanding its deeper ideas. By exploring these concepts up front, in more concrete terms with a scaffolded activity, you’ll…
We’re All on Notice
…how we can help them build new concepts, language or insights. Each “noticing” also reinforces adults’ notions about which children are already well-beyond the rest in terms of literacy comprehension….
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