When studying books and novels, it often helps student comprehension if they have some sort of visual image of the novels setting. As adults, we will often draw on our experience to create this image, however I found that sometimes students just can’t get into a book, because they can’t imagine or relate to its setting. Enter ‘Google Lit Trips‘!
source: www.googlelittrip.org
To access the lit trips, Google Earth will need to be installed (its free). Then, simply click on the lit trip files for each novel available to start downloading them from Jerome Burg’s website (they are the .kmz files).
Some of the Google Lit Trips listed for Secondary School students include:
- Grapes of Wrath
- The Kite Runner
- Macbeth
Judging by the frequency of each blog entry, new lit trips are being added every week or so, so this may be one blog that english teachers should subscribe to.
Happy ‘Lit Tripping’!
PS. For all those people who have been involved in our blogging sessions, the ‘lit trip’ website is also made in iWeb!
Written by Callie Whelan.Melbourne Beyond Chalk Facilitator
