Bad
Boys, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do! Teenager Outlaws Create Curriculum, Steffen, Beth. English Journal, November 1998. Pages 42-48.
This article talks
about how one 10th grade English students with a history of arrests
became actively involved in creating and participating in a unit on teenagers
and the law.
The Simpsons Meet Mark Twain:
Analyzing Popular Media Texts in the Classroom, Hobbs, Renee. English Journal, January 1998. Pages 49-51.
This article
discusses how one teacher uses “The Simpsons” in her class to help them better
understand and analyze some of the works by Mark Twain. This article also lists web pages that may
be used in the classroom while studying Mark Twain.
A New Sort of Writing: E-Mail in
the E-nglish Classroom, Blasé, Dean.
English Journal, November 2000.
Pages 47-51.
Discussions from
how to get a web discussion started between schools to the realization of the
students that voice is very important in writing, even on e-mail. Some web pages cited for use in the
classroom on the topic of Zora Neale Hurston’s There Eyes Were Watching God.