To bring the junior high school student to an awareness of himself as a unique personality constantly undergoing further definition, this presentation of organizing principles for English teaching focuses upon two primary aspects of man: his role as organizer and formulator and his role as communicator. It provides problem-solving activities within a curriculum framework for teaching English that emphasizes the student's role as the communicator of his creation. The first section is concerned with the problem of synthesizing and integrating a chaos of perceptions into a cohesive pattern through the discrete acts of "isolation,""definition,""accommodation," and "assimilation." The second section focuses on man as a model-maker who uses language to contact, teach, and learn from his contemporaries and people of the past; through the stimulus of new information he forms and manipulates his image of himself and his environment. The third section takes up the particular position of the author as model-maker--his creative capacity, his linguistic resources, and the limiting and defining characteristics of his art. (LH)