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This book focuses on successful classroom practices which used oral communication to develop student confidence in a variety of speaking situations and to expand student understanding of literature through both analysis and performance. The book contains the following essays, listed here with their authors: (1) "Follow the Bouncing Ball" (Harlan Underhill); (2) "'You See Their Interselves': Small-Group Discussion of Poetry" (Louann Reid); (3) "Learning Poetic Mood through the Fine Arts" (Elizabeth Altenburger); (4) "From Boom Box to Pegasus" (Ann R. Morris); (5) "A Talk Show with Class" (Madeleine Myers); (6) "The Student-Centered Classroom: Speaking and Listening in American Literature" (Barbara Osburg); (7) "Analyzing Literature through Collaborative Speaking" (Goran "George" Moberg); (8) "Talking about Books" (Margaret Hutchingson); (9) "Personification in Children's Literature: Identifying, Analyzing, and Performing" (Donna E. Norton); (10) "Who's Talking?" (Dion Kempthorne); (11) "The Play's the Thing for Middle School Students" (Robert W. Blake); (12) "Spoken Literature in the English Classroom" (Jonathan R. Eller and Dennis C. Porter); (13) "A Speaking Project about the Arts That Acknowledge Students' Underlife" (Hallie S. Lemon); (14) "Strategies for Developing Effective Use of the Voice" (Carole Schulte Johnson); (15) "The Process of Persuasion: An Approach to Thinking, Writing, and Speaking" (Dorothy E. Hardin); (16) "Speechmapping: Navigating through Speech Preparation and Delivery" (Marilyn Thanos and Brenda Avadian); (17) "The Classroom Debate: A Stimulus for Listening, Speaking, and Arguing" (Carol Hovanec); (18) "Student Panel Presentations: A Collaborative Oral Exercise" (Bruce R. Henderson); (19) "A Global Introduction to International Business Communications" (Ray Wallace); (20) "Structuring Speaking and Listening in the Classroom" (Nancy Wyatt); (21) "Weaving in Listening and Speaking throughout the School Day" (Lynn Plourde); (22) "The Interview Connection" (Dene Kay Thomas); (23) "Listening to the Songs People Sing: Writing Essays Based on Interviews" (Deborah DeZure); and (24) "Positive Strokes: An Affective Oral Language Activity" (Annis L. Cassells). (MS)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert