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Workshop Detail: Monday, July 20, 2009
(K-6): The World is My Home - Environmental Observation and Creative Writing
presented by
A. Young (UTA)
Curriculum Developed by The University of Texas at Austin (UTA)
Teachers will learn the
"workshop" model of incorporating imaginative work in a supportive
group context
to maximize students' personal connection to curricular material.
Teachers meet Texas poets to learn about a series of lessons focusing
on the environment as a learning context. Weaving together student's
concepts of their personal, familial and communal environments, this
series of lessons will combine accessible concepts of environmental
health with the tools of creative expression.
Trainer: Abe Louise Young
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