California English Journal

California English is our quarterly professional journal. Each issue features an artist and a topic of concern. All members automatically get a subscription to the journal. Our editor-in-chief is Carol Jago.

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September 2013

Theme: Literary Nonfiction in the English Classroom

Artist of this issue: Beverly Berwick

California English September 2013

Contents

Keeping It Real: Teaching The Laramie Project
Kimberley Gilles

Martin Luther and Walt Disney as Teachers of Reading 
Jonathan Lovell

Expanding Literary Nonfiction Incrementally 
Bill Younglove

Literary Nonfiction: Common Core’s Silver Bullet? 
James Cross

The National English Honor Society: Rigor and Responsibility
Dave Wendelin

“That First Page”: Some Purposes and Pleasures of Teaching Literary Nonfiction
Karen Lopez

Postcards from the Beach
Cheryl Hogue Smith

Features and Columns

President’s Perspective

Editor’s Column

Call for Manuscripts

CATE 2014 Convention, San Diego

CATE Creative Writing Contest 2013-14

CATE Creative Writing Contest Winners

Review of Alabama Moon by Steven Higgnbotham

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