本教材共分为10个单元，每个单元都由作家介绍、知识导读、原文阅读、注释、问题思考5个部分组成。全书选材从生态文学角度出发，既包括狄更斯、海明威、托马斯·哈代、梭罗、蕾切尔·卡森等英美文学大师的经典作品选段，也包括约翰·缪尔、薇拉·凯瑟、西尔万·泰松等知名作者以自然为创作素材的优秀作品。本教材将传统的文学阅读课程与泛读课程内容交叉融合，旨于帮助学生在通过阅读获得语言知识的同时，认识到环境与人类命运、情感的互动，加深对人与环境关系的理解，培养重视生态环境的意识，由此综合提升学生的人文素养、批判性思维和良好的生态环境价值观。

Unit 1 Phenomenology of Reading
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Information
B.Pre reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A Phenomenology of Reading (Part I)
Text B Phenomenology of Reading (Part II)
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 2 Silent Spring
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Information
B.Pre-reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A A Fable for Tomorrow and The Obligation to Endure
Text B The Silent Spring that Sparked a Thunderous Uproar:How Rachel
Carson's Scientific Communication Ignited the American Environmental
Movement
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 3 Walden
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Information
B.Pre reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A The Bean Field
Text B Walden's Shore:Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 4 Our National Parks
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Information
B.Pre-reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
Text B John Muir's Last Stand
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 5 Oliver Twist
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background In{ormation
B.Pre reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A The Pursuit and Escape
Text B Victorian Ecocriticism For The Anthropocene
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 6 My Antonia
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Information
B.Pre-reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A The Hired Girls(VI)
Text B "Motion in the Landscape" :The Journey Motif in Willa Cather's My antonia
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 7 Consolations of the Forest:Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Information
B.Pre reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A JUNE:Tears
Text B Consolations of the Forest
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 8 Wolf Totem
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Information
B.Pre-reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A Wolf Totem(Chapter One)
Text B Ecological Holism Thoughts in Wolf Totem
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 9 The Snows of Kilimanjaro
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Information
B.Pre-reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Text B Human Apathy Towards Animals in the Novels of Ernest Hemingway in the Light of Eco-Criticism
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task
Unit 10 Tess of The D'Urbervilles
I.Pre-reading Activities
A.Background Intormation
B.Pre-reading Questions
II.Selected Reading
Text A The Maiden(2)
Text B Ecocriticism in Thomas Hardy's Wessex:A critical study of Tess of the D'Urbervilles
III.After-reading Activities
A.Critical Thinking
B.Writing Task