Literary Studies for a Sustainable Future: An Introductory Course with Social Justice and Ecocriticism Intersections is a university literature textbook that offers a sampling of the vast array of storytelling and literary traditions from around the world. Led by course outcomes, the book’s readings, activities, and assignments aim to establish a 21st century framework. Novice literary scholars establish correlations between local and regional literature with those from distant lands on relevant concerns and topics, like those outlined by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Through songs and folklore, film clips, poetry, myth, storytelling, and satirical theater, its chapters feature key literary texts and terms to present literature as vital community-sustaining cultural expressions. Learners witness the roles literature has in climate, ecology, and social justice challenges.

In 1957, Little Rock African Americans made their city the most significant test case for the United States Supreme Court’s 1954 and 1955 Brown v. Board of Education rulings.

In this minilesson, students practice identifying and purposefully using vocabulary in persuasive writing that is intended to have an emotional impact on the reader.

In this lesson students must listen and follow directions. They will perform locomotor movements based upon those directions.

This is a BlendSpace lesson on the persuasive appeals - ethos, logos, and pathos. It involves note-taking, an understanding check quiz, and an application assignment in which students analyze a commercial or print ad for its use of ethos, logos, and pathos.

Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.

This video segment from Between the Lions features a catchy song that celebrates an important function of literacy: access to information. It also shows the wide world of print, and all of the knowledge that can be gained from it.

This lesson uses "Ben's Dream" by Chris Van Allsburg to highlight ten major landmarks of the world. Students research the landmarks and present their findings to the class.

Using the character of Edward Cullen from the Twilight series, this lesson introduces the Byronic hero and asks students to compare the Byronic hero to the traditional hero and villain.

This lesson pairs the reading of historical fiction with nonfiction to introduce students to the large themes of history.

Dr. Louisa Moats, an expert in the area of improving literacy and elementary education, discusses how nonsense words can help students learn word structure.

Students explore the theme of love of war through texts on camaraderie among soldiers. They then compose a visual collage depicting their beliefs about the relationship between love and war.

This LO demonstrates how to create in-text citations for tricky situations including more than one author, multiple quotes by the same source in a paragraph, corporate authors, electronic sources.

This LO demonstrates how to create the most common types of in-text citations.

This LO demonstrates how to follow MLA guidelines to set up a document.

This LO introduces how to correctly format a block quote following MLA 8.

This LO covers how to create both the in-text citation and works cited citation for books.

This LO covers how to create both the in-text citation and works cited citation for most electronic sources students will encounter.

This LO covers how to create both the in-text citation and works cited citation for different types of multimedia including images, audio, and video.

This LO covers how to create both the in-text citation and works cited citation for other types of sources that weren’t covered in previous lessons. It is less likely for students to encounter these types of situations.