Unit 1 Phenomenology of Reading I. Pre-reading Activities A. Background Information B. Pre reading Questions II. Selected Reading Text A Phenomenology of Reading (Part I) Text B Phenomenology of Reading (Part II) III. After-reading Activities A. Critical Thinking B. Writing Task Unit 2 Silent Spring I. Pre-reading Activities A. Background Information B. Pre-reading Questions II. Selected Reading Text A A Fable for Tomorrow and The Obligation to Endure Text B The Silent Spring that Sparked a Thunderous Uproar: How Rachel Carson's Scientific Communication Ignited the American Environmental Movement III. After-reading Activities A. Critical Thinking B. Writing Task Unit 3 Walden I. Pre-reading Activities A. Background Information B. Pre reading Questions II. Selected Reading Text A The Bean Field Text B Walden's Shore: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science III. After-reading Activities A. Critical Thinking B. Writing Task Unit 4 Our National Parks I. Pre-reading Activities A. Background Information B. Pre-reading Questions II. Selected Reading Text A The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West Text B John Muir's Last Stand III. After-reading Activities A. Critical Thinking B. Writing Task Unit 5 Oliver Twist I. Pre-reading Activities A. Background In{ormation B. Pre reading Questions II. Selected Reading Text A The Pursuit and Escape Text B Victorian Ecocriticism For The Anthropocene III. After-reading Activities