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Below you’ll find links to the lists of assigned readings and viewings for each lesson in Teaching for EcoJustice. I use a large number of books and articles in my lessons! I know that tracking down each of these texts is a lot of work for teachers. So I’m very happy when I can share online access to some of the materials I use. In cases where a reading I use in one of my lessons is available online, I’ve provided the link. In some cases where the material itself isn’t available online, I’ve included links to materials that are similar to those I use in my lesson. These may work as substitutes, if you’re not able to get the original materials I suggest. I hope you’ll understand that, whenever I offer a substitute material, it is done in the interests of making these lessons as easy for busy teachers to use as possible. But I haven’t used the substitute materials in my own classrooms, and I can’t say whether they’ll have the same impact on students as the materials I assign myself. Please be aware that all links are provided for you to use for educational purposes only; please follow all copyright rules when acquiring and using the full text of suggested readings, films, artwork, and other materials. Lesson 1.1 Gérard de Nerval, “Golden Lines,” in News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, 38 http://poemhunter.blogspot.com/2007/12/golden-lines.html Leroy V. Quintana, “Sharks,” in Poetry Like Bread, 202–203 Ferruccio Brugnaro, “Don’t Tell Me Not to Bother You,” in Poetry Like Bread, 75 Genny Lim, “Animal Liberation,” in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2002, 34–36 Federico García Lorca, “New York (Office and Attack),” in News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, 110–112 Jimmy Santiago Baca, “Ah Rain!,” in Poetry Like Bread, 54 Wisława Szymborska, “The Silence of Plants,” in Poems: New and Collected 1957–1997, 269–270 A version of this poems is available here: http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/wislawa-szymborska/the-silence-of-plants/ Note this isn’t my favorite translation; the version in the book cited here is much better. But this version will work! Wisława Szymborska, “Among the Multitudes,” in Poems: New and Collected 1957–1997, 267–268 Rainer Maria Rilke, “Ah Not to be Cut Off,” in Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke, 191 Rainer Maria Rilke, “I Live My Life,” in News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, 76 Tupac Shakur, “The Rose That Grew from Concrete,” in The Rose That Grew from Concrete, 3 Passages in Reading the Environment edited by Melissa Walker: “Walking” by Henry David Thoreau, 41–44 https://www.walden.org/documents/file/Library/Thoreau/writings/Writings1906/05Excursions/Walking.pdf Note that the printed version I cite here, reprinted in Reading the Environment, is abridged – the full essay is much longer. This link is to the full essay, so if you use it you may want to select just a few pages to assign (I’d suggest pages 205–212)
http://faculty.atu.edu/cbrucker/Amst2003/Texts/Serpents.pdf “A Blizzard Under Blue Sky” by Pam Houston, 57–62 “Living Like Weasels” by Annie Dillard, 63–66 “The Call of the Wild” by Gary Snyder, 71–73 N. Scott Momaday, “The Man Made of Words,” in Our Land, Ourselves, 71–73 Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: “January Thaw,” 3–5 “The Green Pasture,” 54–56 “If I Were the Wind,” 70–71 Terry Tempest Williams, An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field: “The Architecture of a Soul,” 13–15 http://mdk12.org/assessments/high_school/look_like/2008/english/resources/architecture_of_a_soul.html
http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/ http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html
Watch the trailer for the film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njbYDlIguDw The full film can be rented online through sites such as Amazon.com Lesson 2.1 James Sire, The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog I have students read pages 13–20, then skim through 25–43, 50–56, 62–74, 85–88, 111–118, and 139–153 This site provides a slideshow summarizing some points from Sire with a few quotes, but not the actual text: http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/views.pdf This pdf offers a summary of a number of different worldviews, with a diagram to help explain each one. It doesn’t provide nearly as much background and explanation as the Sire text, but it could potentially be substituted if necessary: http://www.feva.org/pdf/wv_sum.pdf Barbara C. Sproul, Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World, 49–59, 91–102, 122–126, 179–181, 199–200, 268–284, and 287–295 Sproul’s text includes an excellent selection of myths, and these are the ones I’ve used personally in my classrooms. However, if you can’t get a copy of this book, there are plenty of sources for creation myths online. Here’s a site that offers links to a number of creation myths from around the world: http://www.crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/creationmyths.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/nativeamcreation.html Lynn White, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis,” Science 1967 Optional: Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress, 1–27 Here are recordings of lectures by Ronald Wright that correspond to the chapters from this book. See Part 1 for the section equivalent to the passages I use here. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-2004-cbc-massey-lectures-a-short-history-of-progress-1.2946872
These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons. “The Importance of Holistic Consciousness” http://fractalenlightenment.com/28298/sustainability/the-importance-of-holistic-consciousness “Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEZkQv25uEs Lesson 2.2 George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, 3–13, 22–24 Most of these selected pages can be found at: http://theliterarylink.com/metaphors.html
“Discourses of Modernity,” 66–68 Donella H. Meadows, “Lines in the Mind,” in Our Land, Ourselves, 53–55 http://www.donellameadows.org/archives/lines-in-the-mind-not-in-the-world/ Passages from Reading the Environment, edited by Melissa Walker:
http://www.donellameadows.org/archives/what-is-biodiversity-and-why-should-we-care/ “Storm Over the Amazon” by E.O. Wilson, 151–161 “Mites, Moths, Bats, and Mosquitoes” by Sue Hubbell, 161–164 Passages from Environmental Discourse and Practice edited by Lisa Benton and John Rennie Short: “How Can One Sell the Air?” by Chief Seattle, 12–13 http://www.californiaindianeducation.org/famous_indian_chiefs/chief_seattle/ “The Hoop of the World” by Black Elk, 257 http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/BlackElk.html “Essay on American Scenery (1835)” by Thomas Cole, 87–90 https://www.csun.edu/~ta3584/Cole.htm “A Voice for Wilderness (1901)” by John Muir, 102–104 The passage on this site contains most of the content included in the passage I cite from the book Environmental Discourse and Practice, and should serve the purpose for this lesson nearly as well: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5720/
The passage on this site contains most of the content included in the passage I cite from the book Environmental Discourse and Practice, and should serve the purpose for this lesson nearly as well: http://college.cengage.com/history/ayers_primary_sources/roosevelt_conservation_1901.htm
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~bccorey/105%20Folder/The%20Obligation%20to%20Endure.pdf “Message to Congress (1970)” by Richard Nixon, 132–139 A similar piece that should work for this lesson can be found at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2757
http://genius.com/Wislawa-szymborska-water-annotated Juan Felipe Herrera, “Earth Chorus,” in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2002, 30–32 May Swenson, “Weather,” in From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900–2002, 52–53 Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: “Thinking Like a Mountain,” 137–141 “Prairie Birthday,” 47–54 “The Land Pyramid,” 251–258 Naomi Klein, “A Hole in the World,” in The Nation June 24 2010 http://www.thenation.com/article/36608/hole-world Optional: Bill McKibben, The End of Nature, 47–61, 77–91 Optional: Wendell Berry, Another Turn of the Crank, 64–77 Additional materials that could be added to this lesson: These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons. “The Sixth Extinction Menaces the Very Foundations of Culture” http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/sep/05/sixth-extinction-foundations-culture “Artist’s Animal Sculptures Are Encumbered with Weight of Miniature Civilizations” http://www.treehugger.com/culture/animal-sculptures-carry-weight-miniature-civilizations-maico-akiba.html Lesson 2.3 James Paul Gee, Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses, 6–15 The following links serve some of the same purposes as Gee’s text, though some are a bit more dense: https://sites.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/all-about-linguistics/branches/discourse-analysis/what-is-discourse-analysis http://www.strath.ac.uk/aer/materials/6furtherqualitativeresearchdesignandanalysis/unit3/introduction/ http://www.strath.ac.uk/aer/materials/6furtherqualitativeresearchdesignandanalysis/unit3/whatiscriticaldiscourseanalysis/ (This page summarizes some of the points Gee makes in Social Linguistics and Literacies, but be warned of the very academic tone.)
This text is really essential for challenging and broadening students’ thinking, and I strongly recommend that you use it. Students’ reactions to this book form an important and central part of discussion in this lesson and deeply influence later lessons as well. I’ve included a link to an interview with Joan Dunayer in order to provide some online access to her work, but this interview does not introduce and explain many of the vital concepts that Dunayer explains in the book, and really shouldn’t be substituted. http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Interviews/Animal%20Equality%20Language%20and%20Liberation_%20The%20Joan%20Dunayer%20Interview.htm
“Pines Above the Snow,” 86–93 Fritjof Capra, The Hidden Connections, 54–64 Tania Soussan, “Scientist: Prairie Dogs Have Own Language,” Red Orbit Dec. 4 2004 http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/108412/scientist_prairie_dogs_have_own_language/ James Honeyborne, “Elephants Really Do Grieve Like Us: They Shed Tears and Even Try to ‘Bury’ Their Dead – A Leading Wildlife Film-Maker Reveals How the Animals Are Like Us,” Mail Online Jan. 30 2013 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270977/Elephants-really-grieve-like-They-shed-tears-try-bury-dead--leading-wildlife-film-maker-reveals-animals-like-us.html Jennifer Viegas, “Chickens Worry About the Future,” ABC Science July 15 2005 http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/07/15/1415178.htm Optional: Cathy Glenn, “Constructing Consumables and Consent: A Critical Analysis of Factory Farm Industry Discourse,” Journal of Communication Inquiry 2004 Optional: Peter Mühlhäusler, Language of Environment, Environment of Language: A Course in Ecolinguistics, 15–26 Additional materials that could be added to this lesson: These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons. “What Are Animals Thinking? (Hint: More than You Suspect)” http://time.com/3173937/what-are-animals-thinking-hint-more-that-you-suspect/ “Duck Man Catches Five Ducklings Before They Crash to Earth” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7896407/Duck-Man-catches-five-ducklings-before-they-crash-to-earth.html “7 Animals Way Smarter Than Us” http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/7-animals-way-smarter-than-us.html “Wolf Dog Sings to a Baby” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhA_TTKetyM&feature=related “Sonic Artist Derives Captivating ‘Organic Electronic’ Sounds from Plants” http://www.treehugger.com/culture/organic-electronic-sounds-from-plants-sonic-artist-mileece.html Lesson 2.4 Karen Warren, Ecofeminist Philosophy, 21–38 This link contains a passage by Karen Warren that serves some of the same purposes as the text I use, and could be substituted. It may require providing students some extra support, however, as it is rather dense and directed at an academic audience already familiar with many concepts of feminism: http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/courses/ecowarrn.html
http://westcoastword.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/am-i-blue-by-alice-walker/ Snyder, “The Great Chain of Being,” Grand View University http://faculty.grandview.edu/ssnyder/121/121%20great%20chain.htm Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, excerpt from Query 14, pages 264–267, Electronic Text Center. University of Virginia Library http://web.archive.org/web/20110221131356/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=JefVirg.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=14&division=div1 Aristotle, History of Animals, Book IX, Part 1. Paragraphs 5–7 http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.mb.txt Aristotle, Politics, Part XII http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.mb.txt J. B. Sanford, “Arguments Against Women’s Suffrage, 1911” http://sfpl.org/pdf/libraries/main/sfhistory/suffrageagainst.pdf “Vote NO On Woman Suffrage,” National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/vote-no-on-womens-suffrage-bizarre-reasons-for-not-letting-women-vote/264639/ Lesson 2.5 Julia Corbett, “A Faint Green Sell: Advertising and the Natural World,” in Enviropop, 141–160 Bill McKibben, The Age of Missing Information, 8–28 Shirley Biagi, Media/Impact, Chpt. 10: Advertising: Motivating Customers, 213–230 This worksheet can serve some of the same purposes as the Biagi text: http://worldbridgermedia.com/pdf/hooks.pdf
http://rhetorica.net/bias.htm Clips to analyze in class: Here are videos of particular political or special interest groups talking about environmental issues. I have students analyze these in class (see My Procedure in Teaching for EcoJustice for details.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAA2sLtzXJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhVNSllz4fU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnXToHGldxo
These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons. The Daily Show, “For Fox Sake” http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/1lvtqx/for-fox-sake- “Media Deconstruction Key” http://worldbridgermedia.com/pdf/deconstruct.pdf “No One Applauds this Woman because They’re Too Creeped Out at Themselves to Put Their Hands Together” http://www.upworthy.com/no-one-applauds-this-woman-because-theyre-too-creeped-out-at-themselves-to-put-their-hands-together?g=3&c=reccon1 Lesson 3.1 Passages from Reading the Environment, edited by Melissa Walker: “The World Is Places” by Gary Snyder, 88–91 “Land Where the Rivers Meet” by Annie Dillard, 92–93 “The Place Where I Was Born” by Alice Walker, 94–97 “The Lake Rock” by Ann Zwinger, 100–105 Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: “Good Oak,” 6–19 George Ella Lyon, “Where I’m From,” in The United States of Poetry, 22–23 http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html (This is the author’s site, and it’s great! It has good additional resources, videos, and poems that others have written in response to this poem. I recommend checking it out and perhaps incorporating it into the lesson!)
“Winter Solstice at the Moab Slough,” 61–65 “Stone Creek Woman,” 67–72 “Yellowstone: The Erotics of Place,” 81–87 Some of these short stories can be found online, but I cannot speak to whether they have been reprinted with permission of the copyright holder. I strongly suggest getting a copy of this book or doing your own online search. Luci Tapahonso, Blue Horses Rush In: “A Song for the Direction of North,” 5–6 Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, 3–20 http://architecture.about.com/od/communitydesign/a/suburban.htm Click through on this page to continue. Links to the next pages are listed here as well: http://architecture.about.com/od/communitydesign/a/suburban_2.htm http://architecture.about.com/od/communitydesign/a/suburban_3.htm James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man- Made Landscape, 39–42, 85–94, 113–121 This site summarizes and quotes some points from Kunstler’s text. It’s not equivalent to using the text itself, but it may work as a substitute if necessary: http://www.pps.org/reference/jhkunstler/ David Suzuki and Wayne Grady, Tree: A Life Story, 9–15, 4352, 71–74, 133–140, 156–164 Roger Harrabin, “World Wildlife Populations Halved in 40 Years – Report,” BBC.com http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29418983 Optional: Wendell Berry, Another Turn of the Crank, 46–55 Optional: David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, 137–179 This interview with Abram touches on some points from his text, so parts of it could potentially be used here, though I very strongly recommend the book: http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/abram.htm#Culture_Before_Writing:_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhqzxHVQm4 The most relevant section for this lesson starts shortly after the 7-minute mark.
http://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wilderness_Main.html Optional: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1–45, 203–204, 244–247 (or whole novel) Additional materials that could be added to this lesson: These are other websites that, while not listed in my assigned texts, could be incorporated into the lessons. “This Interactive Map Shows the World’s Ecosystems in Freakish Detail” http://io9.com/this-map-shows-the-worlds-ecosystems-in-freakish-detail-1669325905?utm_content=buffere9798&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer “‘Suburban Nation’: 10 Things to Hate About Suburban Sprawl” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-speck/10-worst-things-suburban-sprawl_b_761574.html “Wild Tiger Population Dropped by 96.8% in 20 Years” http://www.treehugger.com/endangered-species/wild-tiger-population-dropped-by-968-in-20-years.html “Climate Change Is the Fight of Our Lives – Yet We Can Hardly Bear to Look At It” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/23/climate-change-fight-of-our-lives-naomi-klein This journal could be a very useful resource, but requires a subscription: Of Land & Living Skies, a community journal on place, land, and learning http://www.landandlivingskies.ca/home.html Lesson 4.1 Anna Lappé and Bryant Terry, Grub, 3–51 Grub makes a strong impact on students and I highly recommend including it in this lesson if possible, rather than substituting it for other materials. However, I am also including links to an interview with the authors and a video with Anna Lappé. I don’t feel they can serve as full substitutes for Grub, but they offer online access to at least some points made in the book: This video covers a couple of points from the text, though not all of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWOcP-bXuO8 This interview touches on some points from Grub; you’ll find some of these points at approximately 8 minutes and 15 seconds, until at least 10 minutes in. http://www.beyondorganic.com/shows/beyondorganic041206.mp3 Katherine Parkin, “Campbell’s Soup and the Long Shelf Life of Traditional Gender Roles,” in Kitchen Culture in America, 51–64 B. W. Higman, How Food Made History, 143–158 Here’s a piece that, while a bit long, provides some useful history. While different than what Higman covers, it may also serve to make students aware that cultural behaviors around food have changed over time: http://www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/american-diet-ze0z1406zcalt.aspx#axzz3520EP1Kx John Ryan and Alan Thein Durning, Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things, 7–12 (Please see additional text downloads) Wenonah Hauter, Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America, 39–61 Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 15–31 Optional: Harvey Levenstein, Paradox of Plenty, 227–236 Optional: Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved, 75–117 Optional: Waverly Root and Richard De Rochemont, Eating in America, 13–28, 42–67, 74–88 Optional: Fabio Parasecoli, Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture, 1–14, 85–102, 103–125 Download 347.8 Kb. Share with your friends:
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