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Reviews, Nathaniel Teich, Hepzibah Roskelly, Emily Nye, Dennis Young

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

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The Rhetoric Of Recovery: Can Twelve Step Programs Inform The Teaching Of Writing?, Christopher C. Weaver

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

The article examines the spiritual dimensions of recovery programs and explores some of the ways the rhetoric of these programs as well as the structure of twelve step meetings may illuminate the nature of composition classes and particularly of peer writing groups.

Successful Blunders: Reflection, Deflection, Teaching, Devan Cook

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Often we expect students' experience with assignments to reflect our own or those of previous students, but we may blunder when we base our teaching on past successes. By deflecting such assignments and constructing unexpected identities, students and instructors alike learn and teach.

The Landscape Listens— Hearing The Voice Of The Soul, Robbie Clifton Pinter

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This essay offers a view of Mary Rose O'Reilley's "radical listening," applying it to the classroom as a way for teachers and students to "learn to their lives."

The Accidental Curriculum, Terrance Riley

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

True learning—learning which results in some permanent cognitive change—is far too unpredictable to be controlled by format curricular designs. The formal curriculum of English studies is valuable largely as a stage setting for educational accidents.

Back Matter

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Something To Have At Heart: Another Look At Memorization, Gina Briefs-Elgin

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

After tracing the history of learning by heart, this essay explores its advantages and suggest that we restore this time-honored practice which can enrich our students' relationships with words and books and empower their personal lives.

Connecting, Helen Walker, Lisa Ruddick, Kathleen Mccolley Foster, Chauna Craig, Steven Vanderstaay, Meg Peterson, Linda K. Parkyn

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

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Jaepl, Vol. 8, Winter 2002-2003, Katie S. Fleckenstein, Linda T. Calendrillo

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Essays

Charles Suhor. James Moffett's Lit Crit and Holy Writ. In one of Moffett's final presentations, he traced parallels between literary criticism and the study of scripture from various traditions. He explained the development of his Points of View spectrum as a response to his high school teaching experiences and presented an updated version of the spectrum.

Gina Briefs-Elgin. Something to Have at Heart: Another Look at Memorization. After tracing the history of learning by heart, this essay explores its advantages and suggest that we restore this time-honored practice which can enrich our students' relationships with words and …

Table Of Contents

Bryant Literary Review

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Everyone, Barry Ballard

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Everyone is born. Everyone grows, wonders,

Look What Happened To Me, Bayard

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Twilight in the window is all I remember.

Verso

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In A November Woods, David James

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Along the ridges
A white moth

Alterations And Repairs, Sue Repko

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The sign at the entrance to the municipal building said, "Wipe mud from shoes before entering."

North Korea Threatens To End Talks, Test Missile, Ace Boggess

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Westerners point fingers;
Japanese wave their arms

Swell, Gary Maggio

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If
all he could move were
his eyes

Study/Leaves, Leonard Gontarek

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I once understood it.
It was something you scraped off.

The Mad Girl Can't Bear Change, Lyn Lifshin

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In a year where
that's all there is.

Nighthawk Falls, Dusk The Opalescent River, Adirondacks, Richard Bentley

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Just before he awoke, Netherwood, the art historian, was mixing on his palette with a number five brush a shade of mauve whose color symbolized both complexity and distance.

Homage To The Furies, Sean Padraic Mccarthy

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They were putting in pipes for sewerage.

May Day, Ken Mccullough

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It happens when I feel myself
turning into a cottonwood

Selling To The Goyim, J. Weintraub

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It is my firm belief that the blood of generations of salesmen flows through my veins and that, at least on my father's side, peddlers, pitchmen, hucksters, drummers, horsetraders, and merchant princes have been in my family since the days of Solomon.

Flush, David Jauss

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My father didn't throw the hammer at me,
just toward me. I told myself it didn't hurt

Judging, Gordon Graves

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Old Dance Cameron looked over the rude plywood and the 2x4 structure that held the floral exhibits.

Tremors, David Jauss

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The night I heard you have Parkinson's
I dreamed I was walking through the meadow

Lessons, Ronald Thorpe

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I cannot remember
a day when I did not think
about dying.

School Spirit, J. Tarwood

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Has anybody here ever cheered
A high school quarterback

Frog Legs, Robert Samarotto

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They lie on my plate
like dismembered Barbie Dolls.

Contributors

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