Nature Materials for AP Lang & Comp

The materials below are leftovers from when I used to try and teach AP Lang & Comp and American Literature at the same time. The materials were originally supplements to the Romanticism section of the year, and then over time I just enjoyed "nature" as topic and turned it into its own unit. These are some of my AP lang nature materials.

For the unit, students started by reading a nature related article and then creating a poster/visual that outlined the "argument" of the article. After that, students read their choice of a nature-related nonfiction book, and used the book and any articles they read in order to write a paper in which they analyzed the different relationships that people can have with nature. See the "Nature Unit Assignment Sheet" below.

I hope some of these materials are helpful to you!

Nature Materials

• Nature Articles/Argument in Visual Form

• Nature Choice Reading Assignment Sheet

Other

• Thoreau "Why I Went Into the Woods"

• "Why I Went Into the Woods" Discussion Questions

• Questions for "Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination" by Leslie Marmon Silko

• Chapter 4 from Darwin's The Origin of Species

Nonfiction Books for the Unit

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer	Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr	127 Hours by Aron Ralston	Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts	Silent Spring by Rachel Carson	Walden by Henry David Thoreau	The Wilderness Warrior by Douglas Brinkley
Claiming Ground by Laura Bell	The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert	The Emerald Mile by Kevin Fedarko	All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben	Alone in Antartica by Felicity Astor	Last Child in the Wood by Richard Louv