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Workshop Detail: Tuesday, July 21, 2009
(6-12): The World is My Home - Environmental Observation and Creative Writing
presented by
A. Young, M.F.A. (UTA)
Curriculum Developed by The University of Texas at Austin (UTA)
Teachers meet Texas poets and read poems by great contemporary writers
which focus on methods of inquiry, as well as the environment as a
learning context.
Learn to support young people's creativity and diverse knowledge,
while challenging them to think beyond their current understanding of
the world's workings. A special unit on writing about environmental
loss and change will be presented here.
Trainer: Abe Louise Young, MFA Abe Louise Young is a poet who delights in generating and finding connections between poetry and other disciplines. A frequent guest teacher at schools, museums, parks, and universities, she holds degrees from Smith College, Northwestern University, and the James Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the editor of an anthology, Hip Deep: Opinion, Essays, and Vision from American Teenagers (Next Generation Press, 2006), and her poems and essays are published widely.
Summer Institute, a component of the MIDAS Project, is supported by a