Readings: Core Texts

Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler
Primer for Forgetting, Lewis Hyde

The Memory Librarian and other stories of dirty computer, Janelle Monáe
Shelter: A love letter to trees. Ada Limón

Parable of the Sower, graphic novel,
Octavia Butler, Duffy, & Jennings
Life on Mars, Poems. Tracy K Smith

Curated Readings: Journals and Excerpts

Theatre of the Real, Carol Martin

Racial Ecologies, Edited by Leilani Nishime & Kim D. Hester Williams

Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference

Time Capsule, Lauren Redniss

Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, Grist with forward by adrienne maree brown

Teaching climate change to adolescents: Reading, writing, and making a difference, Richard Beach, Jeff Share, and Allen Webb

Familial and Communal Histories as Environmental Care Work. Environmental Communication, Nishime & Hester Williams

Provocation in the Company of Others: Learning through Provisional and Improvisational Spaces, Erick Gordon & Ruth Vinz in Teachers College Record, vol. 117, no. 10, 2015, pp. 222-237.

Environmental Politics at the End of the World: Prepping as Environmental Practice, A dissertation, Allison Ford

Reconsidering Student Inquiry through Digital Narrative Nonfiction, Fawn Canady & Troy Hicks in English Journal, 108(6), 25–31.

Youth media as narrative assemblage: Examining new literacies at an urban high school, Korina Jocson

Ecomedia literacy: Integrating ecology into media education, Antonio López

RE:DES. “A Solarpunk Manifesto

Reading in a participatory culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the English classroom, Henry Jenkins et al.

The Anthropocene Reviewed, podcast, John Greene