Brainerd Kellogg (August 15, 1834 – January 9, 1920) was born in
Champlain, New York. He was a Tutor (1860–1861) and Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature (1861–1868) at
Middlebury College
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in
Vermont
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. From 1868 to 1907 he was professor at the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He published a number of influential education books, some of which are available on
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Kellogg was the author of ''Rhetoric; History of the English Language''. With Alonzo Reed, he jointly authored ''Graded Lessons in English; Higher Lessons in English; A One Book Course''. He authored a variety of textbooks on English writing and literature, including a series on the works of William Shakespeare.
Most methods of
sentence diagramming in
pedagogy
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are based on the
Reed-Kellogg sentence diagram from the book ''Higher Lessons in English,'' first published in 1877, though the method has been updated with recent understanding of grammar. Reed and Kellogg were preceded, and their work probably informed, by W. S. Clark, who published his "balloon" method of depicting grammar in his 1847 book ''A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases & Sentences are Classified According to Their Offices and Their Various Relationships to Each Another.''
Kitty Burns Florey
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*''Amity Street'' (2017) White River Press
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(2006) Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog
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, Melville House Publishing
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. Chapter 2.
Personal life
Kellogg married Julia Rogers Cutter on August 19, 1862 and had a son and daughter: Frederick and Julia
rs. S. Vilas Beckwith Kellogg died in
on January 9, 1920.
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American educational theorists
1834 births
1920 deaths