Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science - A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response - Nancy Gorrell
9 Writing from Awe, Wonder, Reverence, and Empathy
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
In Fusion Lesson one students explore what it is to wonder by saying in their science poems what they have seen and, having said it, “seeing” still farther.