Words, Water, and Work: Literature and History in the Columbia River Basin introduces educators to poets, novelists and essayists who have written about the social and ecological transformation of the Columbia River Basin, from the 1930s to the present.
2008 Castles Fellow Chad Wriglesworth, University of Iowa Ph.D. candidate and former Language Arts teacher presented this workshop on February 20, 2010. The agenda and a site-based bibliography are available below, in addition to case studies and primary documents for analysis using this Big Dam History Detectives Scaffolding Exercise.
Words, Water, and Work Agenda and Bibliography
Big Dam Fact Sheets, including Columbia Basins Physical Characteristic, Bonneville, Grand Coulee, and The Dalles dams.
