Layering Instruction: Text Selection

ENGLISH 1A: Non-Fiction Reading and Writing
Fall 2020 Readings/Viewings:

All of the texts feature models of effective writing and present learning as a key theme. As the students are reading about rowing solo across an ocean or about octopuses and shellfish navigation, they are also reading about learning. Resilience (through preparation and practice) is another underlying theme. Four layers of instruction through text selection.

And I haven't started talking yet.

Martin Wells, Civilization and the Limpet

Tori Murden McClure, A Pearl in the Storm

Tim Severin, The Brendan Voyage

Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival

Films: Heart of the Sea and Fish People

and a collection of short essays on related topics.

Asilomar: Tidepooling

Wish Upon a Wing

Today, while out buying fish in Berkeley, I was limping back to my truck (back & leg issues) when in front of me appeared a crow or raven also limping.

Was he making fun of me?  Showing sympathy?  Just a fellow creature with a hurt of his/her own?

Before I could ask, the black bird flew away.

I wish I had wings like that.

Free Diving: Sonoma Waters

Life Upon Life Upon Limpet

Agate Beach,
West Marin.

Low Tide Wall-Shots, The Alley, and a Watchful Seal

I first saw this seal as he floated two feet beneath my kayak, watching me as I paddled slowly about his rock garden, though I didn't get that photo.  He moved off and away, watching me from the surface as I put more distance between us.  I don't want to get too close and infringe on such creatures.  (Close shots can be taken from far-enough-away; that's why I have the zoom on the camera.)

Bits and Pieces