This document was prepared by a dedicated group of Alaskan educators representing the major professional associations in the area of Language Arts. They included teachers, administrators, university professors, curriculum coordinators, librarians, authors, and editors. The Department of Education is grateful for their energetic efforts and the perseverance with which they stuck to a very complex task. The members of the Alaskan Literature Panel included:

Dr.Marilyn Buckley Jo Morse, Coordinator

Professor of Education School Library/Media

University of Alaska Anchorage Alaska State Library

Nora Dauenhauer Mary Lou Purvis

Author, Poet, Lecturer Past President

Sealaska Heritage Foundation Alaska Council of Teachers of English

Dr. Richard Dauenhauer Rebecca Bowers Sipe

Author, Poet, Lecturer Language Arts Coordinator

Sealaska Heritage Foundation Anchorage School District

Beverley Fonnesbeck Dr. Katy Spangler

Alaska Association of School Librarians Associate Professor of Education

University of Alaska Anchorage

Marlys Henderson Alice Taff

Language Arts Specialist Past President

Fairbanks School District Alaska Association of Bilingual Education

Mardell Kiesel Lynn Thomas

Alaska Association of School Librarians Board Member

Alaska State Writing Consortium

Felicia Leipzig Pat Wamsley

President Alaska Association of School Librarians

Alaska State Reading Association

Edna MacLean Katherine Wilson

Special Assistant to the Commissioner Reading Coordinator

Department of Education Anchorage School District

Harriet McClain, Alaska Association of School Librarians

The Department also wishes to sincerely thank those Alaskan educators who offered advice, counsel, and ideas to the Panel:

• Jean Ann Alter, Centralized Correspondence Study
• Kim Amaya, Anchorage School District
• Larry Benz, Anchorage School District
• B. Albertina King-Blackwell, Graduate Student
• Larry Bradley, Principal, Anchorage School District
• Emma Corre, Graduate Student
• Ruth Dishman, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
• Roz Goodman, Bering Strait School District
• Martha Jacobson, Southeast Island School District
• Sharon Kohring, Intermediate Music Teacher
• Diane Lindfors, Anchorage School District
• Jane Marshall, Anchorage School District
• Frances Moore, Nikolaevsk School, Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
• Sharon Morley, Anchorage School District
• Brita Rice, Centralized Correspondence Study
• Sue Anne Genest Risley, Children's Librarian, Anchorage
• Molli Sipe, Alaska Association for Bilingual Education
• Jean Stockburger, Russian Mission School
• Jim Villano, Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

In addition, the department acknowledges the significant effort of:

Doreen Shaw, Clerical Support Staff, Alaska Department of Education
Scott Foster, Consultant and Editor, Juneau, Karen Jordan.