This inserted map is synced with a map we can all edit in google maps. We will use this map to help us visualize the places we read about in our class texts. As you can see, we cannot add content from this page. To navigate to the shared google map for this class click here. In google maps you can drag the "little dude" in the upper left onto the map. When you do, blue dots appear. Placing the "little dude" on a dot will pull up a real photo taken from that location. Try this with the Château de Chillon. Make sure you are in Satellite view. Zoom in until the castle fills most of the frame. Now drag the "l.d." onto any part of the castle where a blue dot appears to appreciate the view from different angles.
Over the course of the term each of you is required to add at least five locations to the map. These markers will help us keep track of where we've travelled as we read through the course materials. You may add links to outside resources as I have in the entry for the Chateau de Chillon. Please only add locations that have a connection to the texts we are reading. You must provide references so that we can "find" the location in a text. Follow my example in the entry for the Chateau de Chillon where I have appended the following: "Henry James, "Daisy Miller" (22-25). Winterbourne and Daisy travel to the Chateau shortly after meeting one another at the hotel in Vevey, Switzerland."
One of your five entries should be a "rich" location. Your "rich" location must be tagged with a 200 word short "essay" that discusses its literary significance. Your essay must be original and critical. It should function as an insightful commentary that transforms the location into a critical piece of evidence in our historical journey through american travel writing. Why did an author select this site as the setting for a particular scene? Is an author alluding to other literary figures/texts in his or her choice of location? How does the history of a site inform your close reading of a scene taking place there? To prepare yourself for this excercise think about how geography influences the meaning of texts? What effects does the movement through landscape (which we are mapping as a class) have on your reading of a particular text or on the history of American literature in general?
YOU MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND THE DATE AT THE TOP OF EVERY LOCATION YOU ADD. Near the end of the term you will copy and paste each of your entries into a word doc and turn them in as part of the Portfolio due on 11/2. You can write your rich location entry and add it to the map anytime before 11/2. As for the simple locations I ask that you have entered
One location on or before 9/27
Two locations on or before 10/19
Three locations on or before 10/26
Four locations on or before 11/2
I have added these deadlines to the class calendar.
