ABSTRACT
This chapter examines key issues about climate change necessary to consider and frame the teaching of climate change in English language arts. If, in the public sphere, informed and reasoned discussion about climate change does not always take place, in classrooms teachers and their students can openly inquire into new realities, engage in civilized discussion, imagine and begin to enact change. English classrooms are places of moral and ethical reflection about new ideas and complicated human realities. In English language arts classes, students can read about the devastating effects of global warming, comprehend its human-made causes, and understand the creative ways people in all corners of the globe are responding to this challenge. Great literature and English language arts have always been places for thinking about the moral and ethical dimensions of human behavior and society. English language arts is also a place for considering values.
