A selection of savvy observations on urban ecology from one of the Midwest's foremost authorities on the subject, "Hunting for Frogs on Elston" collects the best of naturalist Jerry Sullivan's weekly "Field & Street" columns, originally published in the "Chicago Reader." Engaging, opinionated, inspiring, and occasionally irreverent, "Hunting for Frogs on Elston" pays tribute to Chicago's natural history while celebrating one of its greatest champions. Published in association with the Chicago Wilderness coalition, "Hunting for Frogs on Elston" comprehensively chronicles Chicagoland's unique urban ecology, from its indigenous prairie and oft-delayed seasons to its urban coyotes and passenger pigeons. In witty, informed prose, Sullivan evokes his adventures netting dog-faced butterflies, hunting rattlesnakes, and watching fireflies mate. Inspired by regional flora and fauna, Sullivan ventures throughout the metropolis and its environs in search of sludge worms, gyrfalcons, and wild onions. In reporting his findings to otherwise oblivious urbanites, Sullivan endeavors to make alienated, atomized, postmodern people feel at home, connected to something beyond ourselves. In the sprawling Chicagoland region, where an urban ecosystem teeming with remarkable life evolves between skyscrapers and train tracks, no writer chronicled the delicate balance of nature and industry more vividly than Jerry Sullivan. An homage to the urban ecology Sullivan loved so dearly, "Hunting for Frogs on Elston" is his fitting legacy as well as a lasting gift to the urban naturalist in us all.

Hunting for Frogs on Elston, and Other Tales from Field & Street

Jerry Sullivan

University of Chicago Press

Book by Daniel, Glenda, Jerry Sullivan

The North Woods of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota (Sierra Club Naturalist's Guides)

Daniel, Glenda

Science & Math

Random House, Inc.

Canterbury Press [Published date: 1995]. Paper covers, 225 pp. Second Edition, 1995. [From back cover] This methods text has enjoyed widespread use among English teachers not only because it provides apparatus for the most widely taught literary pieces in American junior and senior high schools but also because it works. Whether teachers apply the methods of inquiry at the lowest levelâthe improvisational, or at the highestâthe intellectual, the results are the same: satisfaction, both for student and teacher. Though it provides easy and intense access to the many popular pieces modeled here, the method is applicable to all literature. Added to the very popular works of the first edtion is apparatus for five more short stories: "The Most Dangerous Game," "Flight," "The Killers," "The Necklace," and 'The Rocking Horse Winner." The poetry section includes treatment of five more poems: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, "Mending Wall," "My Last Duchess," "The Raven," and "Ulysses." The section on novels includes five more: The Outsiders, A Separate Peace, The Red Badge of Courage, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Scarlet Letter. Added to The Glass Menagerie and Tnhe Death of a Salesman is apparatus for A Raisin in the Sun, popular among adolescents. Apparatus for all works treated in the earlier text remains. Continued application has strenghtened their popularity and usefulness. Frost, Robinson, Tobias, Auden, and Cummings are the earlier poets. Short story writers include Shirley Jackson, Willa Cather, James Thurber, Poe, and Hawthorne. Apparatus for teaching the novels O fMice and Men, The Old Man and the Sea, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, and The Chocolate War is still very much in demand, still workable at whatever level of inquiry desired: improvisational, interpretive, or intellectual.

Teaching Literature Inductively

Literature & Fiction

John Hurley

Classics

canterbury press

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