Literacy Matters Vol 24 Winter 2024

Title

Author

Genre

“Trees”

Joyce Kilmer (1913)

poem

“Strange Fruit”

song & poem

Song performed by Billie Holliday, based on the poem by Abel Meeropol (Carillo, 2023)

“When I am Among the Trees”

Mary Oliver (2017)

poem

poem

“To a Pine Tree”

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (2020)

“When Autumn Came”

Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1987)

poem

Chapter 2 of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

chapter from a novel

“A Tapestry of Browns and Greens”

Nalini Nadkarni (2011)

personal essay

Wild Ideas Worth Living , sponsored by REI and

“Greening Our Cities with Cecil Konijnendijk”

podcast

Literacy Matters General Articles

“The Giving Tree”

hosted by Shelby Stanger (2023)

picture book

“The Giving Tree”

Shell Silverstein (1964)

song

“The Tops of the Trees”

Plain White T’s (2013)

picture book

“Can Forest Therapy Enhance Health andWell-being?”

Kao Kalia Yang (2021),

article from Harvard Health Publishing

Epilogue from nonfiction book, Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation Table 3 Multigenre Text Set About Trees

“Epilogue: Tree Tops”

Illustrated by Rachel Wada

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