1st Edition
Place-Based Writing in Action Opportunities for Authentic Writing in the World Beyond the Classroom
This text presents a variety of ways for students to meet traditional instructional goals in writing while also learning how writing can help them become stewards of the natural world and advocates for their own communities. Built on a foundation of emerging research and theory and grounded in the lived reality of teachers, this book explores the material and virtual worlds as places that can be equally productive as sources for authentic writing. Readers will find place-based writing activities, lesson ideas, and samples of student work in every chapter. With practical and classroom-tested ideas, Place-Based Writing in Action is a useful text for preservice and in-service English teachers, as well as any educator who wants to move the act of writing beyond the four walls of the classroom.
Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Place-Based Writing: Getting Authentic by Getting Out of the Classroom
Part I: Meaningful Encounters with the Great Outdoors
Chapter 2: Writing the Ecology of the Ozarks
Chapter 3: Exploring Interconnections with the Living World through Nature Journaling
Chapter 4: Mapping through Justice, through Padlet, and through the World
Chapter 5: Observing Nature, Observing Language: Using Nature to Teach Rhetorical Grammar
Part II: Finding the Intersection Between Community, History, and Self
Chapter 6: Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre (and Other Hidden Histories) Using Poetry, Photography, and Place
Chapter 7: The Sustainable Resource Project: Writing Toward Agency
Chapter 8: Where do Mountain Goats Sleep? Bringing Place-Based Collaborative Journaling Out of the Woods and into (and Beyond) the Classroom
Chapter 9: Making Connections to the Past: Using Place-Based Writing to Bring History to Life
Part III: Writing about Art and Writing as Art
Chapter 10: Finding Your Truth: Reimagining School Spaces for Student Writing and Publication Through Interactive Public Art
Chapter 11: Using Memory as an Activator for Exploration and Creation
Chapter 12: Combining Voices: Merging Art and Writing through Place-Based Principles
Part IV: Using Digital Tools to Bring the Outside World Into the Classroom
Chapter 13: Into the Metaverse: Using Virtual Reality as a Site for Place-Based Writing
Chapter 14: Stories of Our Community: Podcasting for Place-Based Inquiry
Chapter 15: Touring the Place You Know Best: Virtual Tours as a Way to Teach Narrative, Argument, and Research Writing
Biography
Rob Montgomery is Professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University. He has worked with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project and the Georgia Film Academy. Rob is also the co-author of A Place to Write: Getting Your Students Out of the Classroom and Into the World (2021).
Amanda Montgomery is a teacher at Park Street Elementary School in Marietta, Georgia. She works with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project and is also the co-author of A Place to Write: Getting Your Students Out of the Classroom and Into the World (2021).
