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Volume 40 Number 1 Spring 2003

IN THIS ISSUE

Fall Conference 2002: The Heartof the Matter

Mary Lou Flemal

From the PresidentBarbara Fuson

News from the Central DistrictClaire Lamonica

News from the Western DistrictJanna Haworth

Conference Proposal Form

Intellectual Freedom Survey

Remembering Maurice SchartonJanice Neuleib

Announcements

Calls for Papers

First-Year Teacher Free Membership

IATE Membership

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FALL CONFERENCE 2002:THE HEART OF THE MATTER

MARY LOU FLEMAL

“The Heart of the Matter” brought together ap-proximately 250 English/language arts teachers fromall areas of the state to share concerns and offer insightsat the 2002 fall conference of the Illinois Association ofTeachers of English on October 25 and 26. For the thirdconsecutive year, our annual conference was held inSpringfield.

Garry Moore, anchor and producer of News 25 inPeoria, gave the keynote address. He presented teachers

with startling statistics regardingthe rapid increase of African Ameri-can males who will be incarcerated.He challenged English teachers tounderstand and bridge the differ-ences created by culture, and heurged teachers to work with Afri-can American sororities and frater-nities to initiate reading programs.

Donna Blackall received theLifetime Membership Award at theHonorary Awards Luncheon onFriday. Lela DeToye and Helen

Norton received Golden Apple Awards for serving forfive years on the Executive Board. In her acceptancespeech, 2002 IATE Author of the Year Mary Schmichsaid the honor made her feel “like a writer rather than ajournalist, a chef rather than a short order cook.”

A very moving part of Friday evening’s Annual Ban-quet was Dr. Ron Fortune’s speech remembering our col-league and Illinois English Bulletin editor Dr. MauriceScharton, who passed away unexpectedly on August 28,

FROM THE PRESIDENT

BARBARA FUSON

As I attended sessions and listened to the speakersat the fall conference this year, I was reminded of justwhat “The Heart of the Matter” is for English teachers.While course content and state standards are importantparts of our jobs, especially with the “No Child Left Be-hind” act in play, teaching is more than texts and tests.As our speakers pointed out, it is also caring, connecting,and communicating.

The keynote speaker, Garry Moore, anchor and pro-ducer of News 25 in Peoria, set the tone when he spokeeloquently of the need for compassion in our classrooms,especially compassion for African American male stu-dents. The cultural differences of language use, dress,and behavior often doom these youths to failure. Thusone of three inmates in prison is black, and that numberwill rise to two of three by 2020. The solution, said Moore,

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NEWS FROM THE CENTRAL DISTRICT

CLAIRE LAMONICA

About twenty IATE Central District members gath-ered for wine, cheese, and conversation in district co-leader Claire Lamonica’s room at the Renaissance Plazahotel during the IATE Annual Conference in October.The gathering gave members an opportunity to “un-wind” before the Friday evening banquet or (for some)before starting the trip home.

The district’s third annual “Day of Reunion andRenewal” on Saturday, February 22, in Stevenson Hall,Room 401 on the campus of Illinois State University,provided a second opportunity for Central District mem-bers to gather. The “Day of Reunion and Renewal” of-fered Central District members an opportunity to meetand learn from one another. In 2002 the topic was“Teaching Revision.” This year’s topic was “Teachingwith Technology.”

In July 2003, Central District members will havean opportunity to enjoy “An Evening with Shakespeare.”The evening will include dinner, a brief address by aShakespearean scholar, and a trip to the ShakespeareFestival at Ewing Manor in Bloomington. Central Dis-trict members should watch their mailboxes this springfor “Evening with Shakespeare” registration materials.

2002. The banquet honored Dor-othy Cannell, the Peoria-basedmystery novelist, who after din-ner entertained attendees with herinteractive mystery game. Shegave the audience the opportunityto create a mystery by first de-veloping a setting, then charac-ters, fleshing them out and decid-ing who would be the sleuth. Af-ter her presentation, she gra-ciously signed her novels for those in attendance.

The Saturday Presidents’ Luncheon honored pastpresidents of IATE and was a time to give thanks for theenergy and dedication they have given to the organiza-tion. The featured speaker for the luncheon was Dr. BethBerghoff, the president of the Indiana Council of Teach-ers of English and professor of language education andchair of teacher education at Indiana University at India-napolis. She emphasized that each student creates his orher own version of the text, and the teacher needs to de-termine what text the student has created. This can bebest accomplished by the use of various symbolic sys-tems. She shared one strategy, sketch to stretch, with par-ticipants and gave ideas of how it could be used in theclassroom. Her speech was cosponsored by NCTE.

Six sessions of breakouts and workshops allowedparticipants to hear the latest in best practices. Membersof the Illinois State Writing Project presented a strand ofbreakout sessions on the teaching of writing. Members

NEWS FROM THE WESTERN DISTRICT

JANNA HAWORTH

The Western District of IATE met on Thursday, No-vember 14, at Western Illinois University. The programoffered ideas for teaching creative writing and helping stu-dents compose entries for Western’s Spring Creative Writ-ing Festival. This year the category of creative nonfictionhas been added, and we were lucky to hear John Halwass,regional historian, writer, and professor, talk about the rangeof nonfiction writing. Other panel members were AishaBarnes, director of the Creative Writing Festival, DavidStevenson, graduate director of English and fiction writer,and S’thembile West, a professor and poet. �

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IATE OFFICERS

Barbara Fuson PresidentMary Lou Flemal 1st Vice PresidentTeri Knight 2nd Vice PresidentRichard Pommier SecretaryHerb Ramlose TreasurerJanice Neuleib Executive SecretaryThomas McCann District Leader Coordinator

The IATE Newsletter is an official publication of the IllinoisAssociation of Teachers of English, Inc. Published two times ayear by IATE. Member: NCTE Information Exchange Agreement

Interns: Kathleen Dusenbery-Woods, Andrew Ervin, AmandaKarvelaitis, Mary Mueller, Lorraine PropheterProduction Director: Tara ReeserNewsletter Editor: Bob Broad

Please send all Newsletter correspondence to Bob Broad atrlbroad@ilstu.edu or to the address below.

Illinois State University, Campus Box 4240, Normal, IL61790-4240

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Conference Proposal Form

ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH2003 FALL CONFERENCE

The Circle of Learningin the

English and Language Arts Classroom

October 17 and 18, 2003Marriott Hotel, Oak Brook, IL

PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT ALL INFORMATION

Proposal submitted by: _______________________________________________________________Home Address: _____________________________________________________________________City & Zip: _______________________________ Home Phone: _____________________________E-mail: ____________________________________________________________________________School Name and Address: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ School Phone: ____________________________E-mail: ____________________________________________________________________________

Are there others presenting with you?Name: ___________________________________ School: _________________________________Address: __________________________________________________________________________Name: ___________________________________ School: _________________________________Address: __________________________________________________________________________

Can you name a colleague or two who might serve as chair or recorder for your session if accepted?Name: ___________________________________ School: _________________________________Address: __________________________________________________________________________Name: ___________________________________ School: _________________________________Address: __________________________________________________________________________

Have you presented at an IATE convention before?Yes No

Please check the type of equipment you will need, if neccessary:TV/VCR Internet connectionLCD projector/screen Overhead projectorOther (please specify): _________________________________________________________

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Proposals must be returned by March 28, 2003 to:Teri Knight, Program ChairIATE Fall ConventionMaine South High School1111 South Dee RoadPark Ridge, IL 60068

This proposal is for a:90-minute workshop 50-minute workshop

The intended audience is:Elementary Middle school High school General

Presentation Title: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Type or print a 50-word description of your presentation. Your description will be printed in theprogram booklet.

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INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM SURVEY

Greetings IATE Friends,

As we enter the year 2003, it is important for members of IATE’s Intellectual Freedom Committee toupdate our knowledge of intellectual freedom issues in the state of Illinois. (The last survey of this kindwas done in 1993.) Please take the time to complete the survey below and mail it to:

Deborah WillIATE Intellectual Freedom Chair1871 Independence CourtGurnee, IL 60031

1. Does your school have a formal written policy regarding the censorship of reading materials?Yes No

2. Does your English department keep rationales for the use of controversial texts on file?Yes No

3. If parents wish to file a complaint about the suitability of a text, are they required to complete awritten form?

Yes No

4. In the past three years, have there been any challenges in your school to reading materials that wereused?

Yes No

If yes, please list the name of the text: _____________________________________________

If yes, was the text retained or removed? Retained Removed

5. In the past three years, have there been any challenges in your school to specific writing assignmentsthat were given?

Yes No

If yes, please list the writing assignment: ___________________________________________

If yes, was the assignment retained or removed? Retained Removed

6. In the past three years, have there been any challenges in your school to a particular method ofteaching?

Yes No

If yes, please list the method of teaching: ___________________________________________

If yes, what was the challenge: ___________________________________________________

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7. In the past three years, have there been any challenges in your school to non-print materials thatwere used?

Yes No

If yes, please list the materials: ___________________________________________________

If yes, were the materials retained or removed? Retained Removed

8. In the past three years, have any school publications been censored by your school?Yes No

If yes, please list the publication and the nature of the censorship: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. In the past three years, have you deliberately excluded a controversial text?Yes No

10. In the last three years, have you altered a text?Yes No

11. In the past three years, have you been forced to exclude a text by your community?Yes No

12. In the past three years, have you been forced to exclude a text by school officials?Yes No

Comments:

Name: ____________________________________________________________________________Address: __________________________________________________________________________City: ______________________________________________________ Zip: __________________Phone: ____________________________________________________________________________E-mail: ____________________________________________________________________________Grade level taught: ______________ School Name: ________________________________________District: ________________________

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is to communicate with them where they are. These stu-dents need to be made to feel comfortable in the class-room and at ease expressing themselves. The caringteacher will allow communication in their own vernacu-lar and only begin to impose grammar rules when thatcomfort level with communication has been attained. Thisteacher will also care enough to connect with the studentand learn his language as well.

When Mary Schmich accepted her award as the Il-linois Author of the Year, she too spoke of communicat-ing and connecting. Describing the award as “better thana Pulitzer,” she went on to explain that it meant that herwriting was connecting with others. A special aim of theChicago Tribune, she stated, is to reach fourteen- to eigh-teen-year-old readers—the population of our secondaryclassrooms. As teachers, we give away our ideas, cul-tures, words, etc. to the students—we connect with them.But connection should be a two-way street where teach-ers also value students’ ideas, cultures, and words.

Finally, at the Saturday luncheon, Dr. Beth Berghoff,cosponsored by NCTE, continued this theme of commu-nication and connection. She pointed out that there aremultiple systems of making meaning and that languageis but one of those systems. Good teaching, then, shouldnot focus on teaching knowledge systems as much as onanswering the questions students have. The connectionsbegin with tapping into the background knowledge ofthe student. Then students can read and respond to text.Learning is further enhanced through working in groupsand holding conversations to communicate ideas. Projectscan follow—and not only through writing exercises.Rather, the student can choose to communicate and con-nect through other systems of making meaning, such asmusic or art. The result, said Berghoff, will be the devel-opment of varied perspectives.

The numerous breakout sessions and workshopsprovided a kaleidoscope of topics for the preservice aswell as the practicing teacher of English. Several dealtwith engaging the student through active learning andauthentic discussion. Genres discussed ranged from po-etry, drama, and fiction to photography and media. A com-mon thread, however, was the need to connect to andcommunicate with students while caring about them asindividuals as well as learners.

A stellar example of engaging the “students” andmaking connections about communication occurred atthe Friday evening banquet. Author Dorothy Cannellturned the ballroom into a classroom as she took those inattendance through the process of developing a mystery

novel. With humor and genuine care for our ideas, sheelicited suggestions for a setting, a victim, a murderer,and a detective and sidekick, letting the group generatethe selections. As I enjoyed the experiment, I was struckwith how much fun learning can be when the studentsare engaged and valued as individuals.

Many thanks go to Conference Chair Mary LouFlemal and her committee. She set out to make this con-ference about “The Heart of the Matter” and succeeded.I hope we will all take the message of caring, connect-ing, and communicating into our dealings with students.Also, I hope that we will see all those who attended in2002—and many more as well—at the next annual IATEconference this fall (2003) at the Marriott in Oakbrook. �

REMEMBERING MAURICE SCHARTON

JANICE NEULEIB

Our colleague and Illinois English Bulletin editorMaurice Scharton was killed in an accident on August28, 2002. He was honored at the IATE annual confer-ence in Springfield, where Illinois State University En-glish Department Chair Ron Fortune spoke aboutMaurice’s devotion to IATE and to the profession in gen-eral.

Maurice Scharton came to Illinois State Univer-sity in 1977, having finished his master’s degree at UtahState and his Ph.D. at Kansas State. He quickly becamea popular teacher of rhetoric, writing, and grammar, aswell as a teacher of teachers through grants and work-shops. His wit and good humor made learning a plea-sure for all his students. One former doctoral studentperhaps said it best: “He shaped who I was to become.”

As a scholar, he changed the course of teaching bywriting books, book chapters, and journal articles whichalways moved at the cutting edge of research and teach-ing in the field. He liked to say that his research was away to take his teaching to an audience beyond the ISUcommunity. Not only was he prolific in his publishing,but he also edited the oldest English education journalin the United States, the Illinois English Bulletin.

Through the Illinois State Writing Project, he workedwith teachers from across the state to help them improvetheir own writing and their teaching of writing. He wastireless in his desire to “gladly learn and teach,” thoughhe would have wanted us to say it in the Middle Englishof Chaucer, Maurice having been always the English pur-ist. His department has many, many empty hearts andmany students who will miss the challenge and excite-ment of his classes. �

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Bulletin Editorship

Ken Lindblom is the new editor of our organization’sjournal, Illinois English Bulletin. Central District co-leader,Claire Lamonica, is Associate Editor of the Bulletin. Sub-mit essays and other material you wish to see published inthe Bulletin to:

Ken Lindblom, EditorIllinois English BulletinDepartment of EnglishCampus Box 4240Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL 61790-4240phone: (309) 438-7158e-mail: kjlindb@ilstu.edu

Life Membership Award Goes toDonna Blackall

Lee Mulcrone introduced the 2002 winner of theLife Membership Award, Donna Blackall, at the Hon-orary Awards Luncheon held at the Fall Conference.Donna earned her bachelor’s degree from WesternMichigan University and her M.A. in Speech fromNortheastern Illinois University. She began her teach-ing career at Miner Junior High School in ArlingtonHeights and later transferred to Thomas Middle School,where she still teaches. In 1977, she was appointedDistrict Leader of the Northeast Suburban District ofIATE. She has been the local arrangement chair, themembership chair, and the chairs of the audit, budget,nominating, special projects, and constitution commit-tees of IATE. As vice president she was program chair,and she was president of IATE from 1986–l987. Shewas appointed coordinator for the NCTE PromisingYoung Writers Program in l986 and has served as bothan author and an editor for McDougal, Littell & Com-pany. Donna received the John Heissler Award for Ex-cellence in English Education. This past year sheagreed to serve on the site selection committee forIATE. Donna Blackall has done it all for IATE. Theorganization is grateful for her service and commit-ment. Her more than twenty-five years of dedicationto IATE are an inspiration to all English and languagearts teachers. Congratulations, Donna.

IATE Shirts Now Available

Regular T-shirts are available in ash gray or ath-letic gray for $12.00 each. Sizes: M, L, XL, and XXL.

Long sleeve T-shirts with IATE down one sleeveare available for $15.00. Sizes: M, L, and XL.

To get your shirt to wear throughout the year andto be fashionable at the 2003 IATE Fall ConferenceOctober 17–18 in Oakbrook, Illinois, contact:

Jean BlackPalatine High School1111 N. Rohlwing RoadPalatine, IL 60074phone: (847) 755-1600e-mail: jblack@d211.orgChecks should be made payable to IATE and

should include a $2.00 shipping and handling fee.Our popular IATE pins ($5.00 each) and T-shirts

will also be available for purchase at the Fall Confer-ence. See you there!

Fuson and Neuleib attendNCTE Affiliate Conference

IATE President Barbara Fuson and Executive Sec-retary Janice Neuleib attended the NCTE state affiliateconference in St. Louis in August 2002. They had manyexciting experiences and were especially impressed withthe CoLEARN demonstrations. Jan later wrote a Na-tional Writing Project grant in which she proposed theinclusion of the Illinois State Writing Project inCoLEARN. Teachers have begun to interact overCoLEARN and to enjoy the many exciting activitiesprovided through this service. NCTE will still sign upgroups and schools if your district is interested. To dis-cover more about CoLEARN, go to the NCTE Webpage: www.ncte.org/CoLEARN.

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Join us for CITE 2003

All teachers of English in Illinois (at all instruc-tional levels, including middle and high school) are in-vited to the Conference for Illinois Teachers of English(CITE). This year’s CITE will take place Friday, April11, 2003, in the Bone Student Center on the campus ofIllinois State University. For more information on CITE,please contact Paula Ressler, Director of English Edu-cation at ISU. Phone: (309) 438-7705. E-mail:pressle@ilstu.edu.

Illinois State Writing Project to HostTwelfth Summer Institute

The Illinois State Writing Project (ISWP) will hostits twelfth Summer Institute June 30–July 31, 2003, onthe campus of Illinois State University. The Institute isopen to teachers from all levels (pre-K through college)and all disciplines who are interested in growing aswriters and teachers of writing.

The ISWP is the Central Illinois site for the Na-tional Writing Project (http://writingproject.org), ahighly successful professional development initiativebased on a philosophy of “Teachers Teaching Teach-ers.” Becky Hansen, a fifth-grade teacher from CentralIllinois, said this of her ISWP experience: “The WritingProject changed not only the way I teach writing, butthe way I teach all subjects in my classroom. It gave mea whole new attitude about teaching. I love coming toschool every day now, and so do my students.”

Teachers who become ISWP fellows spend fiveweeks together (four days/week) writing, reading, andsharing their best practices in the teaching of writing.Then they take the ideas they’ve generated back to theirown classrooms and schools for implementation, ex-ploration, and revision.

If you would be interested in becoming a 2003ISWP fellow, call or write for an informational flyerand application form. Requests should be directed to:

Dr. Claire Lamonica, ISWP Co-DirectorCampus Box 4240Department of EnglishIllinois State UniversityNormal, IL 61790-4240phone: (309) 438-3297e-mail: cclamon@ilstu.edu

IATE New Teacher/Instructor Program

If you teach an English Education methods courseor direct an English Education Program and you wouldlike to get your students involved in key professionalorganizations, then you will be happy to know that IATEhas just launched a “New Teacher/Instructor Program”to help get preservice teachers on board at the IllinoisAssocation of Teachers of English.

All you need to do is send an e-mail to IATE’sOffice Secretary, Martha Frieburg, at mrfrieb@ilstu.edu.Tell Martha how many students you have in your meth-ods class and she will send you a box of materials foreach student. Kits include:

• IATE membership forms (preservice and first-year teachers may join for free)• a recent issue of Illinois English Bulletin• the IATE Newsletter• the IATE brochure, “What IATE Can Do For You”• information about the organization from the Website• something new that we are very excited about: afree IATE tote bag.These materials will introduce teaching candidates

to the many benefits of being a member of IATE, andthey will receive something that they can use right nowthat will show their pride in being a member of the Illi-nois Association of Teachers of English.

If you would like more information about activi-ties in the IATE Central District, call or e-mail either ofthe district’s co-leaders, Brian Conant or ClaireLamonica:

Brian Conantbtconan@ilstu.edu(309) 438-2828

Claire Lamonicacclamon@ilstu.edu(309) 438-3297

of the Language Arts Assessment Advisory Committeeof the Illinois State Board of Education presented sev-eral sessions of working with Illinois rubrics and instruc-tional strategies that improve writing. Other sessions ad-dressed technology in the classroom, and a strand fornew teachers culminated with a Friday afternoon semi-nar for preservice and new teachers. Teachers also hadthe opportunity to visit the book exhibits on Friday. “TheHeart of the Matter” afforded teachers an opportunity torenew old acquaintances and to reconsider what is theheart of the matter in their classrooms. �

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CALLS FOR PAPERS

IATE Minority Scholarshipfor Teacher Education

IATE issues this call for applications for its minorityscholarship awards to chairs of recognized language artsteacher-education programs in Illinois colleges and uni-versities. Applications—which must include a sample ofstudent writing, a student essay, a recommendation from aprofessor, and a cover sheet—will be accepted beginningMay 1, 2003. Applications must be mailed to JaniceNeuleib, Executive Secretary of IATE, and will be acceptedno later than September 15, 2003. The specific goals, pro-cedures, and criteria are these:

Goals:For both philosophical and practical purposes, the Il-

linois Association of Teachers of English is committed torecruiting minority* language arts teachers. To meet thatcommitment, IATE reserves $1,000 each year for one schol-arship as designated by the Minority Scholarship Commit-tee, a subcommittee of the Minority Affairs Committee.

Procedure:The Minority Scholarship Committee will send out

a call for applications to the chairs of public, recognizedlanguage arts teacher-education programs in Illinois col-leges and universities in the spring. A follow-up call willbe made in August.

After applications are received, the Minority Scholar-ship Committee will judge the applications, issue an invita-tion to the winner to attend the fall conference (October 2003)when the award will be given, and assist the winner in mak-ing arrangements to attend the conference. When at all pos-sible, the winner will be escorted by an IATE member.

In addition to the cash award, winners will also re-ceive a complimentary one-year membership in IATE, freeregistration for that year’s conference, luncheon and ban-quet tickets, lodging, and mileage (if an escort cannot besecured).

Criteria:1. The candidate must be a member of a minority group.2. The candidate must be duly enrolled in a four-year orupper-division, public, recognized teacher-educationprogram in an Illinois college or university.3. The candidate must have declared a major in En-glish, English Education, or Elementary Education witha specialty in language arts (Junior or Senior status),and plan to teach in Illinois.

4. The candidate must have demonstrated potential foracademic success.5. The candidate cannot be an individual already on fullscholarship, and some degree of need for the scholar-ship must exist.6. The faculty member who recommends a student forone of the awards must submit these items in one enve-lope:

a. A sample of the candidate’s writing done for a classin the past year (instructor comments included).b. A candidate essay on this topic: “What piece ofliterature by a person of color would you especiallylike to teach? Explain why you chose this particularpiece and how you would go about teaching it.”c. A sealed recommendation which addresses items1–5 above in some detail.d. A cover sheet with the full name, home address,and phone number of both the candidate and therecommender.

*As in other IATE matters, “minority” here is defined asnon-white minority, a person of color.

Newsletter Call

The IATE Newsletter welcomes articles, reviews,reports, announcements, calls for papers, and other ma-terial important to the professional lives of Englishteachers in the state of Illinois. The deadline for sub-mitting material for the Fall 2003 newsletter is May 1,2003. Please send submissions via e-mail to Bob Broadat: rlbroad@ilstu.edu.

Teachers of English: Share Your Writingat the 2003 CITE Conference

For several years, the Conference for Illinois Teach-ers of English has featured a session entitled “Teachers ofEnglish Share Their Writing.” All IATE members and otherteachers of English in Illinois are invited to attend the CITEConference on Friday, April 11, 2003, and to bring a poem,brief essay, story, journal entry, or other writing to share.Please plan to limit your reading to five minutes. For moreinformation and/or to be listed in the CITE conference pro-gram, please contact CITE Program Co-Chair Paula Resslerin Illinois State University’s Department of English (phone:(309) 438-7705; e-mail: pressle@ilstu.edu). We hope tosee—and hear—you at CITE 2003.

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First-Year Teacher Free Membership

Attention: First-Year English Teachers

IATE offers a free, one-year membership to all teachers who have not previously been members ofIATE. IATE membership entitles you to three issues of the Illinois English Bulletin and two issues of theIATE Newsletter as well as convention information and district news. Stay current with trends in ourprofession and gather tips for surviving and thriving during your first year in the classroom. Please fill

out the information below and return it to:

IATE, Department of English, Campus Box 4240, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4240E-mail: jneuleib@ilstu.edu

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