Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science - A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response - Nancy Gorrell
5 How to Teach Science Poetry Writing: Teacher as “Chemical Artist”
Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science - A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response - Nancy Gorrell
Nancy Gorrell [+]
English Teacher
Nancy Gorrell (BA summa cum laude & MA State University of New York at Sony Brook) is an English teacher, poet, and award-winning author of numerous articles on the teaching of poetry in the English Journal. Her poetry has appeared in English Journal, Rockford Review, BlueLINE: A Literary Magazine of the Adirondacks, and Footwork: Paterson Literary Review, among others. A former New Jersey State Teacher of the Year, in 2001 she was awarded Outstanding English Language Arts Educator by the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English, and she received a Governor’s Award in Arts Education from the State of New Jersey.
Description
The aim of Chapter 5 is to offer for science and English teachers alike practical strategies for teaching one of the most challenging skills – the art of poetry writing in general, and the art of science poetry writing in particular.