Hello and welcome to the site that houses additional materials for "Creating a Climate Literacy Context for Reading Literature"

Chapter summary: Drawing on Kristen Simmons's Pacifica, this chapter highlights how a unit of instruction can be designed to foster youth readers' engagement with themes of relocation, internment, climate denialism, media and social discourse, and climate science by incorporating design elements of a cordel, side quests, and a final juxtaposition project.

Below, you'll find a map of the cordel described in the chapter, the cordel as a PDF file, pictures of students engaged in the cordel, and a description of the final juxtaposition project.

If you have any questions or would like to connect further, please reach out via email: mark.sulzer@uc.edu 

Mark Sulzer

Figure 1: Map of the Cordel for Pacifica

Figure 2. Cordel for the Pacifica Unit.pdf

Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6: Students at the University of Cincinnati Engaged in the Cordel for Pacifica

Figure 7: Final Project Graphic

Figure 8. Pacifica Final Project Description and Prelminary Rubric (updated).pdf