Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science - A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response - Nancy Gorrell
8 Into the Field: It’s Only Natural
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 Fundamental Lesson Three is to introduce students to in-the-field sensory data gathering as a stimulus for science poetry writing.