Map and Rationale
Rough Draft Due: Wed. 3/30 for in class peer review.
Final Draft Due: Wed. 4/6.
Working in groups, students will create a map addressing at least one text by the writer to whom they have been assigned. Using Google Tour Builder or Google Maps, each group will create an annotated, interactive guide to at least one text. You can also incorporate locations and references from throughout our readings this term. In addition to researching the places to which your writer refers, you will consider how best to represent the content and style of the text or texts you select. Google's features allow for annotation of maps with historical information, images, analysis of quotations, and media that shed light on the places in your writer's time and today. Map annotations must analyze at least two quotations from the text in light of the locations to which they refer. Maps might include street views of the locations, images of buildings, links to video footage, or any information readers would find useful.
You should consider how best to arrange the information regarding your route. You can also investigate including historical maps. A map of New York in 1922 is available here. (See examples of student maps of Jean Rhys's novel Good Morning, Midnight, one of which includes a historical map, below).
Students can include more than one map in order to depict different places in a section of the text or a large map with different areas or locations addressed in greater detail using separate images and pasting screenshots into a Word or Power Point file. Do not publish the map publicly. Similarly, you could also connect different Google Maps or parts of a map using a Prezi. You can also zoom in and comment on different features of your map. If you use Prezi, provide a link in your rationale and include screenshots in your rationale file. You should not share your materials publicly, but you can share then with the instructor. (For examples of students’ maps of Virginia Woolf’s novel Jacob’s Room, see here.)
Each group will also compose a 750-word rationale to accompany its map that asserts an argument regarding the design choices, the argument(s) the map makes, and the significance of the map’s contents to our understanding of the texts we have read. Your introduction and analysis of quotations must use templates from They Say/I Say. Each group member must complete an equal portion of the rationale (approximately 250 words), but it must read fluidly as a whole. One member of the group will submit a Microsoft Word document on Blackboard with an image or images of the map, a link to it in Google Maps, and the rationale. Make sure to also provide the names the group members in this document. The project will receive a group grade. Students must save their maps using Google Maps and then include screenshots of the map and link(s) to it in the Microsoft Word document that includes the rationale. You can capture images of your map using Jing. If necessary, one group member can send an invitation from Google Maps to the instructor’s email address to view the map.
The rationale must be in 12 point, Times New Roman font, and include a list of works cited that demonstrates correct use of MLA format and includes all sources you have consulted, including webpages. You should also attribute sources of images and content on the map itself. In your rationale and any text on your map, including captions, you must use your own words.
Submit your rough draft and final drafts on Blackboard at least thirty minutes before class on the dates indicated above.
Rough Draft Due: Wed. 3/30 for in class peer review.
Final Draft Due: Wed. 4/6.
Working in groups, students will create a map addressing at least one text by the writer to whom they have been assigned. Using Google Tour Builder or Google Maps, each group will create an annotated, interactive guide to at least one text. You can also incorporate locations and references from throughout our readings this term. In addition to researching the places to which your writer refers, you will consider how best to represent the content and style of the text or texts you select. Google's features allow for annotation of maps with historical information, images, analysis of quotations, and media that shed light on the places in your writer's time and today. Map annotations must analyze at least two quotations from the text in light of the locations to which they refer. Maps might include street views of the locations, images of buildings, links to video footage, or any information readers would find useful.
You should consider how best to arrange the information regarding your route. You can also investigate including historical maps. A map of New York in 1922 is available here. (See examples of student maps of Jean Rhys's novel Good Morning, Midnight, one of which includes a historical map, below).
Students can include more than one map in order to depict different places in a section of the text or a large map with different areas or locations addressed in greater detail using separate images and pasting screenshots into a Word or Power Point file. Do not publish the map publicly. Similarly, you could also connect different Google Maps or parts of a map using a Prezi. You can also zoom in and comment on different features of your map. If you use Prezi, provide a link in your rationale and include screenshots in your rationale file. You should not share your materials publicly, but you can share then with the instructor. (For examples of students’ maps of Virginia Woolf’s novel Jacob’s Room, see here.)
Each group will also compose a 750-word rationale to accompany its map that asserts an argument regarding the design choices, the argument(s) the map makes, and the significance of the map’s contents to our understanding of the texts we have read. Your introduction and analysis of quotations must use templates from They Say/I Say. Each group member must complete an equal portion of the rationale (approximately 250 words), but it must read fluidly as a whole. One member of the group will submit a Microsoft Word document on Blackboard with an image or images of the map, a link to it in Google Maps, and the rationale. Make sure to also provide the names the group members in this document. The project will receive a group grade. Students must save their maps using Google Maps and then include screenshots of the map and link(s) to it in the Microsoft Word document that includes the rationale. You can capture images of your map using Jing. If necessary, one group member can send an invitation from Google Maps to the instructor’s email address to view the map.
The rationale must be in 12 point, Times New Roman font, and include a list of works cited that demonstrates correct use of MLA format and includes all sources you have consulted, including webpages. You should also attribute sources of images and content on the map itself. In your rationale and any text on your map, including captions, you must use your own words.
Submit your rough draft and final drafts on Blackboard at least thirty minutes before class on the dates indicated above.
Examples of student maps of Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight and Nella Larsen's Passing
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