Springboard

by John Slade

Overview

In the classroom, I often give my students something to read as a springboard for great classroom discussions, and further student research. May these poems serve as a springboard for a global discussion, in many languages, of two intertwined subjects: planetary pollution, and the plague of war.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151487764
Publisher:	John Slade Books
Publication date:	03/07/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	491 KB

About the Author

John Slade is both a teacher and an author. As a teacher, he often sat on the front of his desk and read a story to his students. Even the boys in the back row would listen with absolute attention.

With a doctorate in literature from Stanford University in 1974, Slade has taught high school and university English in the United States, the Caribbean, Norway (both on the coast with the fishermen, and on the tundra with the Sami reindeer people), and in St. Petersburg, Russia (during the dark, cold, dangerous depths of the Russian depression in the 1990s). In Norway especially, Dr. Slade worked with students from countries around the world.

Now as an author, Slade writes books for these young people. Weaving extensive research into a vibrant story, he dramatizes the great challenges that young people around the world will soon face: the drought and storms of climate change, the wars that plague us, the veterans who come home battered, an Arctic reindeer culture devastated when the snow melts too soon in the spring.

As a lifelong teacher, Slade deeply believes in the first global generation in human history. They do not need to inherit all the bad habits of the 20th century. Much better to design and build their own 21st century.

In 1776, America was the most innovative nation in the world.

We need to do it again.