Utah English Journal
The Utah English Journal is a place for English educators to share their lesson plans, ideas and writing talents.
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Utah English Journal
Call for Submissions
due June 1, 2008
Celebrating Differences:
A Focus on Individual Students
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
-attributed to Jimmy Carter
This year’s Utah English Journal is seeking for submissions that address the ways you incorporate the talents, needs, interests, and skills of individual students who comprise the mosaic of your classroom.
In addition to how you address and celebrate diversity in the classroom, we are also interested in articles that address the following questions:
● What are engaging and effective ways you have used 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?
● 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
introduce your students to the diverse world around them?
● How do you assess your students’ writing and reading?
● How you teach English Language Learners in your classes?
● What ideas do you have for teaching the Utah core curriculum?
● What lessons have you learned throughout your career as an English teacher?
We welcome interviews, personal narratives, poems, plays, literary critiques, graphics, photography, reflections, and—most especially—descriptions of practical ideas for teaching language arts.
Manuscripts should be approximately one to eight single-spaced pages, formatted as Microsoft Word documents compatible with Word 2003. 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.