Teaching the Sun as Simile: Bringing Nature into Language Arts Middle School Classrooms

<p><em>Teaching the Sun as Simile</em><strong> </strong>is an essay that explores an interdisciplinary approach to teaching middle school English Language Arts (ELA) by infusing nature and environmental studies. This essay defines emerging concepts of new literacy studies and eco-criticism, literacy, and composition as it relates to ELA pedagogy. Also, it provides an explanation for the importance and relevance of using nature to develop an ecosystem of better readers, writers and communicators in middle school general ed and special ed classrooms.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW)

Level thesis:degree_level

Capstone

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Kage, Stormy

Contributors dc:contributor

• Laura McGrath
• Sergio Figueiredo

• English language arts
• middle school
• ecoliteracy
• interdisciplinary
• special education
• curriculum
• Creative Writing
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Environmental Studies
• Language and Literacy Education
• Secondary Education
• Special Education and Teaching

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mapw_etd/62

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu:mapw_etd-1067