Climate Change Literature

Climate Change Literature Audio An audio podcast titled ‘Climate Change and Literature: Reading Change’ that features Dr. Jemma Deer, Harvard University Center for the Environment. The podcast discusses the role of literature to understand and deal with climate change. The podcast discusses how analysing literature can allow for various interpretations and perceptions of climate change […]

Use of Allegory in Literature

Use of Allegory in Literature Overview As a High School English Language teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach about the literary device of allegory and examine an allegory in climate literature. This lesson plan will allow you to teach about the usage of allegory as a literary device, its multiple interpretations and […]

How to Read and Analyze Poetry

How to Read and Analyze Poetry Overview As a High School English Language teacher, you can use this lesson plan to teach your students how to read and analyze poetry and to use these techniques to examine climate related poems. In this lesson plan, students will be taught how to read poetry and identify elements […]

Literary Analysis using Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi)

Literary Analysis using Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) Overview As a High School and Undergraduate Humanities teacher in English, you can use this lesson plan to teach literary analysis of a novel (climate fiction). The recently recognized literary genre of ‘Cli-Fi’ is a valuable means by which students can engage with key concepts of climate change and […]

Teaching Verb Tenses through Climate Literature

Teaching Verb Tenses through Climate Literature Overview As a Middle or High School English teacher or a teacher of English as a second language, you can use this set of computer-based tools to teach tenses using climate literature. Global warming is causing glaciers to melt thus causing a water crisis. Satellite imagery is used to […]

English for Academic Purposes: Note Making and Summary Writing Using Climate Literature

English for Academic Purposes: Note Making and Summary Writing Using Climate Literature Overview As a high school or undergraduate English teacher, you can use a climate change related spoken text to help you in teaching note making and summary writing, as part of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). The lesson involves training students to listen […]

William Blake’s ‘Chimney Sweeper’ Poems: Ode to the Industrial Age

William Blake’s ‘Chimney Sweeper’ Poems: Ode to the Industrial Age Overview As a high school and Undergraduate English Literature teacher, you can use two of William Blake’s poems, both titled “The Chimney Sweeper”, to teach your students how to interpret poetic texts. These poems may serve as an introduction to the genre of Romantic poetry […]

Listening Comprehension: Talk by Climate Activist, Greta Thunberg

Listening Comprehension: Talk by Climate Activist, Greta Thunberg Overview As a Middle School and High School English Language teacher, you can use a talk about climate change and an associated comprehension quiz to help you teach listening comprehension. This lesson plan uses the TED talk, “The disarming case to act right now on climate change” […]

Lesson Plan: Reading Techniques: A study of “Geology of Mankind”

Reading Techniques: A study of “Geology of Mankind” Overview Overview As a high school English teacher, you can use this lesson plan to help you in teaching reading and analysis skills as part of English Language Teaching (ELT). The lesson plan involves training students in skills such as skimming and close reading, and comprehension based […]

Climate Fiction “Hermie”- A Case of Climate Change

Climate Fiction “Hermie”- A Case of Climate Change Overview Overview As a high school  or undergraduate English Literature teacher, you can use this climate fiction short story to teach literary analysis of fiction through narrative strategies such as dialogue, chronology, and descriptive richness as used in a short story, the use of figures of speech […]