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PowerPoint Presentation submitted October 1, 2011 at the Fall Conference of the Oregon Council for Teachers of English 
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MEDIA LINKS: Use the following as writing prompts in your classroom,
1. Popular Culture and Environmental Justice 2. Sign up for a Public Radio Exchange (PRX) account to get access to The Environment Report. Ads Use Nature to Sell SUVs. 3. Honda Civic Hybrid commercial 4. Ecomagination from GE: website 5. Keep American Beautiful Campaign Discuss PSAs (public service announcements) 6. Guide for the Use of Environmental Marketing Campaigns, from the Federal Trade Commission. Cross-curricular connection to Marketing & Economics classes. 7. Other Popular Culture images and ideas to discuss: Smokey the Bear, the recycling logo, popular films: Erin Brockovich (2000), The China Syndrome (1979), A Civil Action (1999) Best for AP Students 1. Representations of Nature in Popular Culture 2. Crude Awakening A You Tube montage of Jane Fulton Alt's photo essay, set to Hurt, by Johnny Cash. 3. Jane Fulton Alt : See Burn, Crude Awakening, Katrina, and Visitations 4. Read Apologia, by Barry Lopez. A small but powerful essay on roadkill. Resources for Teachers Action for Nature Great list of links. Nature Study Gem resources hidden among the advertising. Teacher Ranger Teacher Program, hosted by the National Park Service. Acorn Naturalists
Teaching Writing Through Science. Order Books and Supplies. Smithsonian Education Introduction to the Nature Journal Sierra Club Keeping a Nature Journal. Includes template Nature Journaling Blog For Primary Grades lesson on nature journals USFWS lesson and resources Ideas for home school Okay middle school students, show the world complete sentences and thoughtful comments. Answer this (4 sentence min.):
What do you like to read about, and why? Okay 5th graders. Show the world complete sentences and thoughtful comments. Answer this (3 sentence min.):
What do you like to spend your time reading, and why? |
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. ~Henry David Thoreau
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