Everything you need to understand or teach Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard.
In Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters, Annie Dillard shares fourteen separate personal essays with the reader. Each essay is a distinct and independent recounting of an event or place that Annie has encountered in her life. The settings include the jungle in Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, a church service, and a cottage in the Appalachian Mountains among others. Weaving through her narrative of the events and places are...