Re: greening English in secondary schools?

["Kim Leeder" <kimleeder@boisestate.edu>]

Hi Clark,

A place to start would be The Orion Society's books on nature literacy and
the authors of those titles (some of whom I expect will also respond to
you). Check out:
http://www.orionsociety.org/pages/os/natureliteracy.cfm

Kim

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Clark Meyer <ClarkMeyer@westminster.net>wrote:

> Greetings, everyone!  I've been lurking on this list for a while now, and
> I'm interested in knowing more about might be happening at the secondary
> school level regarding the teaching of environmental literature.  ASLE's
> focus seems to be higher education; is there anything resembling a
> comparable network for interested educators in middle and high schools? Any
> sort of movement afoot?
>
> From a recent blog post: "I have some questions to ask of my profession.
>  In my darker moments, I wonder why I teach my students the distinction
> between a tercet and a quatrain when they know nothing about tanagers and
> cardinals.  Which kind of learning is more likely to help develop them into
> the kind of adults that will make our planet a more livable place?  And the
> narratives that might help us at this point in our history, why are they not
> a part of the canon we typically share in school?  In the early years of
> this new and uncertain century, what does it mean to be educated any more?
>  Should young people be more familiar with Chaucer and Harper Lee than
> Rachel Carson or Aldo Leopold?"
>
> I imagine that such sentiment is nearly cliche in this community, but it
> has earned me "barbarian at the gates" status within my department, so I'm
> looking both for guidance and strength in numbers.
>
> Clark Meyer
> English Department
> Head Coach, Varsity Girls Soccer
> The Westminster Schools
> 404-609-6257
> http://clarkbeast.wordpress.com/
>
>
>


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