The Spinners: An Articulation of the Curriculum

Abstract

C ARLSEN and Crow found that we American English teachers do not teach English (EJl, October 1967). We teach Language, Literature, and Composition instead. Several writers have expressed disfavor with this separation. They insist that we should teach one course, perhaps called communication. This is all well and good, but the separation is very serviceable if we use it to show how impossible the three way split is. I teach the three courses in high school as if they were three completely unrelated courses. I make the literature