The Oregon Curriculum

The Contents of The Oregon Curriculum

Kitzhaber, A. R., ed. The Oregon Curriculum. A Sequential Program in English (N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968.)

The fundamental problem with the Oregon Curriculum is that, like most grammar books, it focusses on individual constructions and uses very simple sentences as examples. It never even attempts to get students to the point where they can analyze the structure of their own sentences. (See "The KISS Difference.")

Part One / Language
Chapter 1	What Do You Know About Your Language? What Is a Rule in Language? What Is a Sentence?	3
Chapter 2	Parts of the English Sentence Expanding the Basic Parts of a Sentence The Branching Diagram	15
Chapter 3	The Noun Phrase Phrase Structure Rules A Second Kind of Noun Phrase	31
Chapter 4	The Determiner Phrase Visible Determiner Phrases Other Determiner Phrases	43
Chapter 5	Some Features of Nouns The Number Feature Mass and Count Nouns	51
Chapter 6	The Verb Phrase Parts of the Verb Phrase The Main Verb Phrase	66
Chapter 7	The Auxiliary Verb Phrase: Tense Tense Indicators Forms of the Verb Be	79
Chapter 8	The Auxiliary Verb Phrase: Be + ing The Present Participle Including B + ing in Phrase Structure Rules	99
Chapter 9	The Auxiliary Verb Phrase: Have + en The Past Participle Including Have + en in Phrase Structure Rules	110
Chapter 10	The Auxiliary Verb Phrase: The Modal Tense with Modals Including Modals in Phrase Structure Rules	127
Chapter 11	The Main Verb Phrase Noun Phrases Adverbials Adjectives	139
Chapter 12	Varieties of English Pronunciation as a Characteristic of Dialect Vocabulary as a Characteristic of Dialect Situation as a Characteristic of Dialect	155
Part Two / Rhetoric
Chapter 13	Getting Started Keeping a Journal Private Writing and Public Writing	171
Chapter 14	If I See More, I Can Say More Qualities of Objects Patterns of Objects Point of View and Purpose Selecting Details	188
Chapter 15	Putting Your Senses to Work Choosing the Right Details Choosing the Right Words	205
Chapter 16	More to Say Conveying Exact Impressions Using Comparisons	215
Chapter 17	People-Watching Faces, Dress, and Body-English Writing Word Pictures	230
Chapter 18	How Do People Talk? Dialogue Describes People Writing Natural Dialogue Selecting Dialogue to Fit Purpose	253
Chapter 19	People Are Different People Are Characters Conveying a Main Idea Selecting Appropriate Details	269
Chapter 20	People Have Problems Problems Stimulate Interest Building to a Solution Realistic Writing	286
Chapter 21	This Time, This Place Getting the Reader into the Writing Organizing Details by Location Creating a Mood Establishing a Setting	302
Chapter 22	Building upon Your Experience Selecting and Shaping Details Using Description, Dialogue, and Characterization Organization: Beginning, Middle, End Narrative and Descriptive Writing Writing from Experience	316
Part Three / Usage and Special Skills
Chapter 23	Usage Agreement Verb Forms Glossary of Usage	341
Chapter 24	Punctuation Sentence Punctuation Punctuation Within a Sentence Punctuating Quotations Writing Titles	376
Chapter 25	Spelling Spelling Rules The Apostrophe Troublesome Word Pairs Word Lists	394
Chapter 26	Using Your Dictionary Finding Words in the Dictionary Reading a Dictionary Entry Finding Irregular Forms Usage and Other Special Labels	415
Glossary of Language Terms		437
Index		445