Place-Based Writing in Action

ISBN-13: 9781032529066 / Twarda / 2024 / 248 str.

Opis

This text presents a variety of ways for students to meet traditional instructional goals in writing while also learning how writing can help them become stewards of the natural world and advocates for their own communities.

Spis treści

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

 

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Place-Based Writing: Getting Authentic by Getting Out of the Classroom

 

Part 1: Meaningful Encounters with the Great Outdoors

 

Chapter 2: Writing the Ecology of the Ozarks

 

Chapter 3: Exploring Interconnections with the Living World through Nature Journaling

 

Chapter 4: Mapping through Justice, through Padlet, and through the World

 

Chapter 5: Observing Nature, Observing Language: Using Nature to Teach Rhetorical Grammar

 

Part 2: Finding the Intersection Between Community, History, and Self

 

Chapter 6: Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre (and Other Hidden Histories) Using Poetry, Photography, and Place

 

Chapter 7: The Sustainable Resource Project: Writing Toward Agency

 

Chapter 8: Where do Mountain Goats Sleep? Bringing Place-Based Collaborative Journaling Out of the Woods and into (and Beyond) the Classroom

 

Chapter 9: Making Connections to the Past: Using Place-Based Writing to Bring History to Life

 

Part 3: Writing about Art and Writing as Art

 

Chapter 10: Finding Your Truth: Reimagining School Spaces for Student Writing and Publication Through Interactive Public Art

 

Chapter 11: Using Memory as an Activator for Exploration and Creation

 

Chapter 12: Combining Voices: Merging Art and Writing through Place-Based Principles

 

Part 4: Using Digital Tools to Bring the Outside World Into the Classroom

 

Chapter 13: Into the Metaverse: Using Virtual Reality as a Site for Place-Based Writing

 

Chapter 14: Stories of Our Community: Podcasting for Place-Based Inquiry

 

Chapter 15: Touring the Place You Know Best: Virtual Tours as a Way to Teach Narrative, Argument, and Research Writing

O autorze

Rob Montgomery is Professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University. He has worked with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project and the Georgia Film Academy. Rob is also the co-author of A Place to Write: Getting Your Students Out of the Classroom and Into the World (2021).

Amanda Montgomery is a teacher at Park Street Elementary School in Marietta, Georgia. She works with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project and is also the co-author of A Place to Write: Getting Your Students Out of the Classroom and Into the World (2021).