Week 5
Responses to Climate Change
How are people responding to and sharing information creatively to shape our understanding of Earth’s changing climate, including heatwaves?
This week you will read and respond to excerpts from climate-related texts, exploring the purpose of the genre, language forms, features, structures and stylistic approaches. You will view and respond to Visual Communication and Art as vehicles for shifts in thinking about climate change and changing people’s actions. You will also learn about local and international climate activists such as Tishiko King and Grace Vegesana and their work in change making.
‘As a global phenomenon climate change requires us to think on a global level. But while we measure, project and debate at the planetary scale, we miss something, the problem becomes abstract and inhuman.’
Flash Fiction
Using resources provided by Story Factory you will investigate how climate change features in fictional texts, the purpose of the genre, and the language forms, features, structures and stylist approaches. Inspired by this investigation, write your own climate fiction in response to heat and climate change.
Story Factory is a not-for-profit creative writing organisation for young people in under-resourced communities. It runs programs in Sydney and digitally across Australia, working with young people to write their own stories, imagine their own worlds and see themselves as authors who have a voice worth sharing with the world. The benefits can last a lifetime.
