english teachers

Jennifer Boylan discusses how she spent the first forty years of life knowing she was a woman trapped in a man's body and explores how her physical, emotional, and spiritual life was changed after a sex-change operation.

A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder?.

The author presents a memoir of her life in post-revolutionary Iran, focusing on her organization of a group of young women in 1997 who met secretly once a week to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature.

Ivy Seidel's dream of becoming a great American novelist seem to be fading as she runs low on money and takes a job teaching creative writing to prisoners, but she soon finds herself falling for one of the inmates and regaining her creative passion.

Emma, the daughter of a minister who has always believed God has a plan for her life, finds her faith shaken when she catches her husband in a compromising position with her assistant, and denied tenure in her position as an English professor because of the resulting scandal, she travels to London in pursuit of a cache of letters written by Jane Austen, and gains insights into her own life and future.

Charles Schine, a steady man with a longtime job, a wife, and an ill child, finds his life spiraling out of control when he becomes involved with a married woman.

Describes techniques English teachers may use to provide accurate, thoughtful, and timely assessments of student work.

A guide to planning and implementing a literacy professional development course for teachers, sharing information about classroom and adult learning, offering suggestions for implementing an effective professional development system, discussing coaching in the professional development context, and exploring issues in the modern educational environment.

Takes a critical look at English studies in America, discussing how English attained its place in the American educational system, diagnosing what the author sees as symptoms of an educational illness he calls hypocriticism, and offering recommendations for a reconstruction of the field of English studies as a discipline.

Jill Rosen, living in the midwest and teaching at a college has her boring life take a turn when she decides to a adopt a puppy she names Phil.