Writing About Nature

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 23.02.01

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Content Objectives
  3. In Nature: Three Approaches
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  7. Resources
  8. Notes

Why Nature? Noticing and Writing in the Wild

Brandon Barr

Published September 2023

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Notes

1 “Twain,” Chicago Public Schools

2 Robbins, Jim, “Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health”

3 Ibid

4 Ibid

5 Magnason, Andri Snær, On Time and Water, 221

6 Bricker, Patricia, "Reinvigorating Science Journals: Nature Books Sharpen Children's Scientific Observation Skills and Put the Spark Back into Science Journaling."

7 Magnason, Andri Snær, and Lytton Smith. On Time and Water, 225

8 Carson, Rachel, “The Sense of Wonder.”

9 Belin, Esther et al., The DINÉ Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature, 19

10 Peterson, Linda H.et al, The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository Prose, 18

11 Dillard, Annie, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 18

12 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 51

13 Goodman, Russell, “Transcendentalism”

14 Ibid

15 Cohen, Adam. “Editorial Observer: Walden at 150: What Would Thoreau Think of the 24-Hour News Cycle?”

16 Ibid

17 “Henry David Thoreau Tour,” This Old House

18 Thoreau, Henry David, “‘Civil Disobedience.’”

19 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Fable.”

20 Ibid

21 McCay, Mary, Rachel Carson, 16-17

22 Rachel Carson Papers, Nov. 1951 Letter to William Nichols (editor of This Week Magazine)

23 Wordsworth, William, “Tintern Abbey.”

24 Carson, Rachel, The Sense of Wonder, 10

25 Lear, Linda, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, 1

26 Ibid, 13-14

27 Ibid

28 Lansley, Charles Morris. Charles Darwin’s Debt to the Romantics: How Alexander von Humboldt, Goethe and Wordsworth Helped Shape Darwin’s View of Nature, 11

29 Ibid

30 Lanham, J Drew, The Home Place, 181

31 Ibid, 156-157

32 Welling, Tina, Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature, 12

33 Ibid, 15

34 Steinbeck, John, “The Turtle.”

35 Yamada, Kobi, Noticing.

36 Ibid

37 London, Amanda. “The Beatles’ ‘Blackbird’ Lyrics Meaning.”

38 Momday, N. Scott, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land, 48

39 Ibid, 45

40 Atwell, Nancie, Naming the World.

41 Bricker, Patricia. "Reinvigorating Science Journals: Nature Books Sharpen Children's Scientific Observation Skills and Put the Spark Back into Science Journaling."

42 Goose, Mary, “Whale Song.”

43 “Common Core State Standards,” https://www.education.com/common-core/sixth-grade/ela/.

44 Ibid

45 Ibid 

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