The page below provides directions given to fellows for the Science Genre Writing deliverable. The page also contains artifacts created during the summer institute and fellowship year related to this deliverable as well as work samples from fellows.
During the ISI, you will have an opportunity to pursue your own science writing to challenge yourself within a particular science genre and develop your own science writing. Through this task, we want you to create a piece that embraces a particular genre of science writing, directly connected to your chosen science mentor text . By the end of the ISI, your task is to have a completed science genre piece. We will be working on various parts, both with the writing and the science mentor text, throughout the summer.
Resources:
Lattimer, H. (2003). Thinking Through Genre: Units of Study in Reading and Writing Workshops Grades 4-12. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
Ray, K. W. (2006). Study Driven: A Framework for Planning Units of Study in the Writing Workshop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Science Fiction
Cli-Fi (Climate Change Fiction)
Awareness Science
Children's Literature
Social Science
Cli-Fi: Year of the Flood (Atwood)
Awareness Science: A Sand County Almanac (Leopold), Fast Food Nation (Schlosser)
Social Science: Predictably Irrational:The Hidden Forces that Shape our Lives (Ariely)