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- Title
Knowing Thoreau: Using Nature Writing with Middle School Students.
- Authors
Lambert, Tonya
- Abstract
The author describes her use of the works of U.S. author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau to teach nature writing to middle school students. She introduces Thoreau to her students with his quotes that may be applicable to nature writing. She also takes her students on a field trip to the woods to allow them to connect with their surroundings and try to be a nature writer like Thoreau.
- Subjects
STUDY &; teaching of language composition; THOREAU, Henry David, 1817-1862; NATURE writing; TEACHING methods; SCHOOL field trips; NATURE writers; MIDDLE school education
- Publication
Thoreau Society Bulletin, 2019, Issue 305, p7
- ISSN
0040-6406
- Publication type
Article