Making Time

“My kids are writing poems in front of

anage interruptions from telemarketers,
me, about
The buzzing dryer, passing runners,
life, about art.
Hunger pangs, and then focus,
I’ve given them thirty minutes, which
And fill up some waiting lines.
might seem
How lucky we are, to have these seconds,
like a lot,
To work so silently, in pen, in pencil, on
But really, when I think about how long a
keyboards,
poem at
Chewing nails with apprehension,
home can take me,
Smiling with a secret knowledge,
I should be pleased if by the end of class
Yawning and returning,
They’ve got their names on the top of
Worrying a word or two for minutes,
the page.
With only the off-hand hum of
I’d have tea to make first,
The Chromebook cart, drowning out
Then grade some papers,
Any little hallway gossip or
Finish all weighty chores,
The Great Gatsby two rooms down.
Silence dogs with bones,
That bell will ring in five to remind, at least me,
Arrange my desk,
That we are granted time when we are green,
Shove clutter to the margins, and then
But we must make it when we’ve grown.”
Find a pencil—that’s half an hour right
—Raymond Pape
there.
English Journal,
High School
Edition
By: Mailani Santos
About

● First issue in 1912, revived in 1959

○ Monthly
● Published in January, March, May, July, September and November
● 20-26 Articles per issue (poems)
● Focuses on ideas for English teachers in junior and senior high schools and middle schools
● Editors:
○ Editor
○ Associate editor
○ Senior editorial associate/editorial associate
○ Production Editor
○ Publications Director
Institutional Affiliation

English Journal is published by the National Council of Teachers of English

Articles

● Articles are between 3 and 9 pages or 4,000 words

● Poems
● Reviews
Focus

● English education improvement

● Ways “teachers are putting the latest technologies to work in their classrooms.”
Articles

● Title, author name, location and email, article with some subheadings, works cited list,
blurb about the author
● Overall supportive
○ Two authors writing about the same thing in one article
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