Use these links to supplement and complement students’ reading of the work and to increase their overall enjoyment of literature. Challenge them to discern parallel themes, engage through visual and aural stimuli, and delve deeper into the thematic possibilities presented by the title.

Recommended Texts for Pairing

The Orchard: A Memoir by Theresa Weir (2011)

• a contemporary memoir that features a woman who marries into a family of apple farmers and becomes a reluctant player in their attempt to keep the codling moth from destroying the orchard

“The Strong Who Inspire: A Poem in Memory of Rachel Carson”

• The Rachel Carson Center published this poem by award-winning nature writer Ellery Akers.
• Akers is the author of a book of ecopoetry called “Swerve: Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance” (2020).

A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• a series of essays on the writer’s interaction with nature and the environment that culminates in an argument for ethical treatment of the land
• shares the theme of Web of Life and Nature’s Balance
• A Sand County Almanac on SuperSummary

“Dear Future Generations: Sorry” by Prince EA

• a spoken-word poem on society’s destruction of the environment
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