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Teaching Students Ecological Literacy In the Secondary English Classroom In todays world, we are bombarded with industry, economic advancement, and progressivism with sunrise(prenominal) applied science. As our world generates more high tech and produces more products for our consumer world, we may soon face many environmental problems, due to our over-consumption of resources and our excessive, industrial lifestyles. deep down all curriculums, I acknowledge it highly important to address these issues concerning environmental awareness as well as advocate environmental activism. When many educators think of shipway to implement ecological literacy in their classrooms, they tend to find it challenging, and are unable to combine it into the curriculum. However, students can be taught to think in ecological terms in a plethora of ways. Through researching accredited methods of integration of ecological literacy in the secondary English classroom and with compil ation of my own approaches to these issues, I offer a great proposition for prospective educators like myself. This paper will examine what ecological literacy is, what ways this integration can be successfully achieved, and why it is important to integrate it into the English curriculum. Ecological literacy is teaching students to view the world around them from an environmental perspective, examine their own practices in relation to nature and smart sets toll upon the earth. For students to become ecologically literate, they mustiness examine social issues on a local anaesthetic and global level in order to develop their own case of individual responsibility to preservation and respect of our world. As time passes and newer technology develops, students sometimes become more involved i... ... Educators in all subjects, must begin to integrate environmental education, promoting ecological literacy for young adults to promote the sustainability of society and the beautiful world around us.Works ConsultedBerry, Wendell. What are People For? northwestward Point Press. San Francisco 1990.Berry, Wendell. The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Counterpoints Publishing. Washington D.C. 1998.McConnell, Malcolm. Miracle at Adobe Creek. Readers Digest. April 1999 78-84.Orr, David. Ecological Literacy Education and the variation to a Postmodern World. State University of wise York Press. New York 1992.Prakash, Madhu Suri, and Gustavo Esteva. Escaping Education documentation as Learning within Grassroots Cultures. Peter Lang Publishing. New York 1998.Wigginton. Moments The Foxfire Experience. Doubleday and Co. Inc. New York 1975.