Teaching to the Heart: Poetry, Climate Change, and Sacred Spaces
Using Marshallese poet and climate justice activist Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner's poem "Dear Matafele Peinam," a teacher helps 7th graders think about the sacred spaces in their own lives and how they will be affected by climate change.
Five Years After the Levees Broke: Bearing Witness Through Poetry
How do race and class affect the aftermath and recovery from a natural disaster? A teacher reflects on the power of poetry to spark critical discussion and offers a lesson plan.
Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice
Rhythm and Resistance offers practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, and construct stronger literacy skills across content areas and grade levels ---- from elementary school to graduate school. This Rethinking Schools teaching guide reclaims poetry as a necessary part of a larger vision of what it means to teach for justice.
A People's Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis
A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. At a time when it's becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource from Rethinking Schools that helps students see what's wrong and imagine solutions.
Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter
In her poetry, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner confronts the intersection of colonialism, nuclear testing, climate change, and resistance. Her work is beautifully and painfully accessible to middle and high school students.
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