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Lesson 4 Activity 2: The Landscape of a Novel
As an individual or class exercise, use the geographic information in a book and map the places described. The book can be fiction or non-fiction, but should not be too long or involved. This activity develops the ability to collect data, envision spatial features, and design a map.
Time
One 50-minute class period (after reading a book).
Materials for each pair of students
- Notebook (for each student)
- Scrap paper
- A few sheets of blank paper or transparent mylar
- Chalkboard or flip chart
Procedures
- On scrap paper, list the kinds of features you will he mapping, such as towns, buildings, houses, rivers, lakes, roads, and airports.
- On paper or clear plastic, draw maps of each separate layer. Include place names, scale, latitude, and longitude. Combine the layers (redrawing if necessary) to create a generalized view that could be used as a frontispiece for the book.
- Write a short essay discussing how geography affected the events in the book. Note how the new frontispiece might affect a reader's impression of the book.
- On a chalkboard map the plots and sub plots of the book using concept mapping (see example in illustration G); start from any central story line (from any point in the book) and try to fill the space available.
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