Rethinking+English++Food+Literacy


 * Rethinking English: Food Literacy **

Food Literacy is an interdisciplinary class that targets the skills of an English II class through content that ties food to nutrition, history, geography, economics, social justice, pop culture, and students’ family and cultural food heritage. Students examine food-related texts carefully and critically and use their investigations to develop questions that bring the curriculum into conversation with the world. Students have opportunities to visit and “read” local food destinations as well as to invite local farmers, chefs, their parents, and members of the local food community to have a class meal and continue the edible dialogue. The course enables students to learn by experience and to see continual links to potential careers.

//Presenters: Joe Franzen, Fern Creek Traditional High School // //Brent Peters, Fern Creek Traditional High School & The Bread Loaf School // //of English at Middlebury College (VT) //