Place-Based Writing in Action: Opportunities for Authentic Writing in the World Beyond the Classroom [Paperback]

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.

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. Built on a foundation of emerging research and theory and grounded in the lived reality of teachers, this book explores the material and virtual worlds as places that can be equally productive as sources for authentic writing. Readers will find place-based writing activities, lesson ideas, and samples of student work in every chapter. With practical and classroom-tested ideas, Place-Based Writing in Action is a useful text for preservice and in-service English teachers, as well as any educator who wants to move the act of writing beyond the four walls of the classroom.

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

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

Part I: 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 II: 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 Towlãz