The English Record: Silver Anniversary Issue; [Topics Covered in That Period]
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 099 $73 CS 201 757 AUTHOR Knudson, Richard L., Ed. TITLE The English Record: Silver Anniversary Issue; [Topics Covered in That Period]. INSTITUTION New York State English Council. PUS DATE 74 NOTE 123p. AVAILABLE FROMAlan Nelson, Executive Secretary, Onion College Humanities Center, Schenectady, New York 12300 ($2.00) JOURNAL CIT The -English Record; v25 n4 Entire Issue Fall 1974 ERRS PRICE MF-$0.75 HC-$5.40 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS Composition (Literary); Elementary Secondaiy Education; *English Curriculum; *English Instruction; Higher Education; *Language Arts; Literature; Reading Instruction; Teacher Education; Vocabulary Development ABSTRACT The articles reprinted in this silver anniversary issue are a representation_of the type of material published during the past 25 years. Among the topics covered'are secondary school curriculum, reading skills, composition in the Junior tigh,_ individual differences in reading programs, vocabulary development in the.o011ege classroom, teacher education in language arts, supervision, literary theory and the teaching of literature, literature and tests, and the literature of protest.. Authors include Robert C. Pooley, Margaret J. Early, Arno Jewett, Joseph Mersand, Prateis X. Connolly, James V. Squire, Alan C. Purves, Jonathon Kozol, and Arthur Daigon. (TO) VI 911111111,4111111,impsem,1101 11144,11111*1011111 1111114111t ilIntottite Of 11114tAt11141 .ottesItAPIt mitt*Protet, sew. eft vAegtAl ftrtvf $ Awe VOL. XXV, No..1 iit et *WHO ftlIAAtetat foto cm. ot Fall, 1974 A 8 0 434 119% Or sf 440'440444 44141 NO Wet eterPt1410-4 of rot it, ottptietat toatotioatto t toIn 4 C`,:11 444 PM' 444 21 Pe% C NEW YORK STATE ENGLISH COUNCIL theenqlishR6CORb I SILVER ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 1 ESTCOP1AVAILABLE BEST COPY MILAN r_ MONOGRAPHS of the New York State English Council No. 1 Research Paper: A Series of Worksheets for Use in the Senior High School by Richard Corbin (revised 1959). 950 per copy; for orders of 20 or more 9,38 per copy. No.9 Linguistics and Teaching: A Manual of Classroom Practices by Robert W. Delancey, Northeastern University. $1.50 a copy. No. 10 English Idorphophonics: Implications for the Teaching of Literacy by Henry Lee Smith, Jr., State University of New York at Buffalo. $1.75 a single copy; for orders of 20 or more copies, $1.50. No. 11 On Transformational Grammar: An Introduction for Teachers by Roderick A. 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RiomED MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED fly upaiEa AonEEmENFS WITH THE NATIONALIN SIHUTE OF LOUCATIONFLOIIHER HENRI New York State DUCtiON Outsof THE- ERIC 5YSTEM RE OulTIES PElimissioN OT THE copywe English Council OWNER the English Rec000 Official Publication of the New York State English Council Copyright New York Stet. English Council 1974 Second Class Postage Paid at Schenectady, N. Y. Editor: Richard L KnudsonBEST COPY AVAILABLE Associate Editors: Elizabeth Drake, David Stineback, Marjorie Rogers, Charles Cooper VOL XXV FALL, 1974 No. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Editoria; Richard L Knudson 2 The First Ten Ye, Elizabeth J. Drake 3 Editorial Intimid A Twenty-Year Record Daniel J. Casey 7 President's ken. KS John C. Fisher 9 Where Are We ' Robert C. Poole), 10 Volume I, Number I Some Current Issues in English Instruction Helene W. Hartley 2'l Volume II, Number 1 A Look at the Secondary School Harold C. Martin 25 Curriculum in English Volume V, Number 3 Reading Skills for the Forgotten In-Betweens Margaret J. Early32 Volume VI, Number leaching Composition in the Junior High School --- - - Robert W. Rounds36 Volume VI, Number 2 Individual Differences: The Basic Problem in -------- Elizabeth M. Dews 41 Planning a Junior High School Reading Program Volume VII. Number 2 1 he College Program of English Vocabulary Leo L. Rockwell 44 Volume VII, Number 3 Goals in Teacher Education Programs for Junior Arno Jewett50 High School Teachers of Language Arts Volume VIII, Number 3 Creative Supervision in the Secondary School - - - -- Joseph Mersand 62 Volume IX, Number 2 Literary Theory and the Teaching of Literature Francis X. Connoll;65 Volume XII, Number 1 Learning to Speak and Learning to Read Isadore Levine 71 Volume XV. Number 2 three Ideas about English James R. Squire78 Volume XVI, Number I literature and Tests Alan C. Turves85 Volume XVII, Number I leaching the literature of Protest Maxine (Peen89 Volume XVIII, Number I A talk to Teachers Jonathan kozol 96 Volume XIX, Number 1 the Education Game - Arthur Daigon 109 .1 Volume XXIII, Number 2 Member of the NOTE information Agreement 'THE ENGLISH RECORD published quarterly Nall, winter, spina. end summer) by the New York State tallish Council, Editorial Office: Richard L. KIllidson, State University Collett, Oneonta, New York lif120. General articles of interest to Enjlleh teachers on ill levels or instruction are invited. Manuscripts should b1 sent with return Kamp; whenever passible, dnunientition should be included in the tem. Letters to the editor is well is book reviews are welcome. Membership i year's subscription to the Ittitilik Retard) Si0.00annually. Individual issues 12.00 each. Cotrispoddeitte, subs Seriptialle and adveHising should be addressed to Man Nelson, Eitetitive Secretary, Union Cantle Humanities Center, Schenectady,New York 1220. 4 Editor's Page TWetity Five Years of The English Record "I just. happened to be here.-I have an idea that this simple state meta could be used by many people as they honestly assess their par- ticipation in history.I know that this is the way it is with me as editor of this twenty fifth anniversary number of The English Record, Original plans called for making this special issue a ...Best of The English Record" number; however, as I started to go though past issues, I realize how presumptuous this would be. In twenty five years there have been many important pieces published in this journal. To try to identify the best would have been i mpossi We; thus, we have a representa- tion of the sort of material which has been chosen by the previous editors. I think you will find these art ides as provocative today as when they were chosen for first publication.It is easy in see that the concerns of EngliAt teachers have not changed all that much, but these concerns bear repeating. And what of the future? English teachers will continually be con- cerned with language and helping youngsters gain control of it. As COM- puterization gains in sophistication, I would predict that teachers will become even more concerned with the affective domain. I am convinced that we have the technology to produce a machine which could handle the teaching of subject matter better than a human being. If this is true, the survival of teaching as we know it must depend Upon a teacher/stu- dent learning situation which goes much further than mere content. When the New York State English Council celebrates its fiftieth an- niversary, there will be many ways to master the subject of I..Inglish. The organization will continue to be a national leader in effective state professional orOmutations. As always, there will be concern for students and what is best,r them. The next twenty five years will be a time of ex- vertu. change in Air society; yet, it we keep our sights set on helping students make latq, urge work for Mein, then we will have fulfilled our promise as educatot.. 2 THE ENGLISH RECORD The First Ten Years Elizabeth J. Drake "Forty-niners" of gold-rush days would certainly approve of their counterparts one hundred years later, but in 1949 we weredigging for a different kind of gold, and our immediate goal was an organization. Before 1949 there had been dreams of a State English Councilgroup discussions of it, letters, proposals, speculative planning. All of these culminated in a westward trek to Buffalo in November, 1949, when the N.C.T. E. held its annual Meeting there. Assisted by Harold A. Anderson as N.C.T.E. representative a small but enthusiastic group of New York, State English teachers decided to initiate a State Council immediately. Helene Hart ley was asked to serve as temporary chairman of the group to plan fora Conference in Syracuse in May; 1950. More planning meetings followed, and a program was organized. This first Conference was a great success, with Robert C. Pooley's "Where are we at?" andArchibald MacLeish's "Thifunction of Poetry" ringing challengingly in our ears. From this small group of dedicated pioneers came the Presidents Elizabeth Drake, the first President, then Strang Lawson, Joseph Mer- sand, Sister M. Sylvia, Richard Corbin, Milacent Ocvirk, Genevieve fief- Iron, Earl Harlan, Rosemary Wagner, and Ruth Everett. We pause often in memory of George Dawson, our first Secretary, and William Beauchamp, two of our most faithful workers who died during the last ten years. The wheels of organization rolled successfully past the making of a constitution, promotion, memberships, and publications.