Teaching Environmental Issues through Literature

Abstract

Abstracts
This paper aims to explain how literature can be a mean to create awareness on ecological issues. It is
proven that literature can move humans to do many beneficial actions. Hence, through literature, to build
generation who always concern about literature is something possible. In the form of poetry, prose, and
drama; literature shows that there are many things that can be done to maintain our earth. To be specific,
this paper is going to describe steps to create an activity to promote ecological awareness. There are two
literary works used to help the explanation. Those are “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury, and “A
White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett. The steps can be divided into pre activity, while activity, and post
activity. In pre activity, there are some things, such as, eliciting the issues or giving a questionnaire. In
while teaching, the activities are reading, explaining, re-reading and discussing. Finally, in post activity,
some activities can be done, for example, storytelling, presenting, or writing.
Keywords: literature, teaching, and environmental issues