Utah English Journal
The Utah English Journal is a place for English educators to share their lesson plans, ideas and writing talents.
Utah English Journal
Call for Submissions
due July 15, 2009
Linked for Life:
Building Connections through Text
The Utah English Journal, a publication that has been featured for national promotion by the National Council of Teachers of English,is seeking submissions that address the ways you use reading and writing to help students connect with the people in their lives, with themselves, with other texts, with the past, and with the larger world around them.
As part of the theme of Building Connections through Text, we are interested in manuscripts that address the following questions:
● What are engaging and effective ways to teach reading and writing?
● How do you connect learning in the classroom to the world at large?
● How do you teach media literacy or critical literacy?
● How do you incorporate multiple genres, images, or other forms of representation into your writing instruction?
● What is your most successful thematic unit or lesson plan?
● What young adult novels, classic novels, informational texts, or media sources do you use to connect your students with the world around them?
● What issues or questions concern or perplex you as you teach English, and how have
you gone about investigating these issues?
● How do you assess writing and reading?
● How you teach English Language Learners in your classes?
● What lessons have you learned throughout your career as an English teacher?
We welcome interviews, personal narratives, poems, plays, graphics, photography, reflections, and descriptions of practical ideas for teaching language arts. This year, we are issuing a special call for research in which teachers or teacher educators investigate a pressing question and report on what they found.
Manuscripts should be approximately one to eight single-spaced pages, formatted as Microsoft Word documents. Please send questions and manuscripts to Amy Alexandra Wilson at amyawilson@msn.com. Writers outside of Utah and the United States are encouraged to submit as well.