Last year I subscribed to the English Journal on my own rather than reading the copy of Media Center gets and houses in our Professional Library.
I figured that NCTE would just skip the summer and ship a new issue in September. However, when I stopped at Lincoln a few weeks ago to check my mail, I found a new July copy in my mailbox.
I was like a kid at Christmas (a nerdy kid, though, I know - I know).
It was a who's who issue. A great article from one of my favorites, Tom Romano. An article questioning the idea of 'best practices' by Peter Smagorinsky. A rebuttal to that idea by George Hillocks Jr. Plus, two articles focusing on teaching Harry Potter and another essay discussing - and quite intelligently too - about using an zombie literature in the English.
I promptly chucked the rest of my summer reading and jumped into this issue.
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