Language Arts

WHEN THEY POKE a microphone into the face of the most valuable player in Sunday's Super Bowl and ask him what he plans to do next, I expect to hear him say, "Man, I'll be hauling my [a-word] to [f-word] Disney World."As the Dallas Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers proved after winning their conference championship games, they lead the NFL in a new offensive category: undeleted expletives.Steelers quarterback Neil O'Donnell revealed on live television that he told running back "Bam" Morris in the huddle to haul his "big [a-word]"

Sunset Elementary schoolteacher Nancy Thomas tells the 17 students she meets with after school that all the world's a stage. Over the next two months, for an hour each Wednesday, she intends to prove it.The children, would-be mimes under Ms. Thomas' instruction, are part of Sunset's new after-school enrichment program, designed to challenge especially bright, talented students."

When three teachers from Clarksville Middle School got together lastsummer to choose a school play for this year, they couldn't find anything they liked.Music teacher Joanne L. Worthington wanted a musical within the range of young adolescents' voices.Gifted and talented resource teacher Annette R. Kuperman wanted an educational play.Language arts teacher Patricia E. Holy wanted to show the interrelationships of subjects such as language arts and social studies.The three teachers got the musical they wanted by writing their own."