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After studying the story collection <\/span>Florida<\/span><\/i> by climate writer Lauren Groff, students wrote their own climate flash fictions, experimenting with how climate change can restructure our narratives: shifting the interior worlds of our characters; altering our notions of story conflict; and remapping our thematic landscapes. After workshopping and revising the stories, students collaborated in small groups and built websites to connect and showcase their work, incorporating image and audio.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/elenimazareas21.wixsite.com\/timeun” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Time Unwinding” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/sites.google.com\/milton.edu\/children-climate-fiction\/home” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Kids and Climate” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/gavinrandolph22.wixsite.com\/website” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”Climate and Internal Struggle” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″]<\/p>\n After reading fiction from North America, West Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean, students identified key themes about the climate crisis that they wanted to explore in-depth. The themes chosen were: Literature and the Representation of Climate Change, Intersectional Environmentalism, Climate Change in a Global Context, and Climate Solutions. The students curated their findings on a website created for the course and they encourage you to discover the intersections between these themes as you peruse their work.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/sites.google.com\/milton.edu\/cwltheclimatecrisis2021\/home” url_new_window=”on” button_text=”CWL Climate Crisis 2021 Website” _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_button][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.1″][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.1″]<\/p>\n Students interviewed school community members, experts in the field of climate change, and read articles, poems, and non-fiction literature addressing the issue. From this material, the students created a found poem (poem based on collected language from other sources)\u00a0 titled “The Earth’s Eulogy.”\u00a0 This poem is a call to action for a planet in peril, specifically articulating the voices of those in the Boston area that are trying to make a difference in our community and in our world. <\/span>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_code _builder_version=”4.1″]Teacher: <\/b>Alisa Braithwaite<\/span><\/h3>\n
Course: <\/b>Themes in Contemporary World Literature<\/span><\/h3>\n
Essential Question: <\/b>What role can literature play in the mitigation of climate change?<\/span><\/h3>\n
Teacher:<\/b> Melissa Soto Figueroa<\/span><\/h3>\n
Course: <\/b>Performing Literature<\/span><\/h3>\n
Essential Question: <\/b>Which population of people are most affected by climate change? What can we all do to make an impact in our communities and world today?<\/span><\/h3>\n