Oh. My. Goodness.
If you are a reader, or an English teacher, Google Lit Trips are the coolest things ever created. I'm not sure who has the kind of time necessary to create one of these things, but I'm glad they do! I'm teaching The Kite Runner to my seniors, and this is amazing! I can't wait to show it to kids!
If you have ever used Google Earth, you can imagine it. Basically, someone has mapped out all of the places in the novel and put it together in one trip! The real places are there, and even the made up places. The creator of the Lit Trip made an educated guess where the made up locations would be, based on their relative location to real places! At each location, in addition to seeing the Google Earth photographs, there is a box that pops up with questions about each chapter and links to web pages about some of the cultural things referenced in the chapter!
It's pretty amazing stuff. I don't know what we did before the internet.
There's even one for The Grapes of Wrath! You can follow the Joad family's trip from the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to California. Or The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Or Make Way for Ducklings. Or Brothers in Hope: The story of the Lost Boys of the Sudan. There are more, too, for everyone from elementary to college!
Click here to check it out!
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Emily discovered, during a recent conversation that she and I had recently, that people didn't really have computers in their houses when I was her age. With an INCREDIBLY shocked and horrified expression on her face, she asked, "How did you look up information then?" Books at the library, little girl... books at the library...
That is sooooo cool! I'll have to check it out! Thank you!
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