Penny Studt hasn’t seen her Eco-Literacy English students at Union High School since before Christmas, but for the last three weeks she has been giving them assignments, grading their work and commenting on their class discussions.
She’s doing all of these things, not from a satellite classroom or even an office somewhere, but from stops along the Appalachian Trail, a 2,180-mile continuous footpath from Springer Mountain, Ga., to Mount Katahdin in Maine. Studt is in the midst of hiking “the AT” with her husband, Mike, and their dog, a 5-year-old mini, dapple daschund nicknamed Land Shark.
The family set out Dec. 30 and are expecting it will take them another five to seven months to complete the “thru hike,” as it’s called.
Along the way, Studt is continuing to teach her Eco-Literacy English class for juniors. This semester’s curriculum is an interactive, online course that combines language arts learning objectives with eco-based literature and assessment.
“Students will be virtually accompanying me as I attempt to thru-hike the 2,180 miles, from Georgia to Maine, of The Appalachian Trail,” Studt writes in her course overview where she outlines what students can expect in terms of grading, assignments and activities.
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