Place-Based Writing in Action

Rob Montgomery is Professor of English and English Education at Kennesaw State University. He has worked with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project and the Georgia Film Academy. Rob is also the co-author of A Place to Write: Getting Your Students Out of the Classroom and Into the World (2021). Amanda Montgomery is a teacher at Park Street Elementary School in Marietta, Georgia. She works with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project and is also the co-author of A Place to Write: Getting Your Students Out of the Classroom and Into the World (2021).

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: An Introduction to Place-Based Writing: Getting Authentic by Getting Out of the Classroom

Part I: Meaningful Encounters with the Great Outdoors

Chapter 2: Writing the Ecology of the Ozarks

Chapter 3: Exploring Interconnections with the Living World through Nature Journaling

Chapter 4: Mapping through Justice, through Padlet, and through the World

Chapter 5: Observing Nature, Observing Language: Using Nature to Teach Rhetorical Grammar

Part II: Finding the Intersection Between Community, History, and Self

Chapter 6: Teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre (and Other Hidden Histories) Using Poetry, Photography, and Place

Chapter 7: The Sustainable Resource Project: Writing Toward Agency

Chapter 8: Where do Mountain Goats Sleep? Bringing Place-Based Collaborative Journaling Out of the Woods and into (and Beyond) the Classroom

Chapter 9: Making Connections to the Past: Using Place-Based Writing to Bring History to Life

Part III: Writing about Art and Writing as Art

Chapter 10: Finding Your Truth: Reimagining School Spaces for Student Writing and Publication Through Interactive Public Art

Chapter 11: Using Memory as an Activator for Exploration and Creation

Chapter 12: Combining Voices: Merging Art and Writing through Place-Based Principles

Part IV: Using Digital Tools to Bring the Outside World Into the Classroom

Chapter 13: Into the Metaverse: Using Virtual Reality as a Site for Place-Based Writing

Chapter 14: Stories of Our Community: Podcasting for Place-Based Inquiry

Chapter 15: Touring the Place You Know Best: Virtual Tours as a Way to Teach Narrative, Argument, and Research Writing