March 2010 Contents
CALIFORNIA WRITERS, CALIFORNIA STORIES
New Life for Local Poetry: Modeling Hometown Poets
by Cathy Blanchfield
California Dreaming: Teaching the Literature of the
Golden State
by Pete Barraza
Five Weeks, Five Essays, Two Grades
and a New Perspective
by Deborah Lapp
Using Funny in Farsi to Engage Student Writers
by Glenn Morgan
Seeking a Newer World: Harte, Sarovian and Steinbeck
by Joe Perez
A Project About a Community:
William Saroyan’s Human Comedy
by Cathy Cirimele
An Idiosyncratic California Reader
by Steve Tollefson
Gerald Haslam’s Many Californias
by Marek Breiger
Teacher Plans in the Aftermath of the Space Shuttle
Challenger Disaster
by Todd Finley & Stephanie West-Puckett
Features and Columns
President’s Perspective
Editor’s Column
Call for Manuscripts
Letter to the Editor
CATE Ballot
Reconcilable Differences (a
response to Doug Lassen) |