Writing Poetry through the Eyes of Science - A Teacher's Guide to Scientific Literacy and Poetic Response - Nancy Gorrell
10 Writing from Outrage, Protest, Perplexity, and Speculation
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 this chapter, students confront controversial issues, wrestling in their poems with the nature and role of science and their own ethical, moral, and religious beliefs.