Spring Reading Project
Reading List here.
You will take viewers on a trip through your book using Google Earth. If you are not able to access this free program at home, it is on the computers in the school library.
Directions for making Google Lit Trips are online at googlelittrips.com – downloads - under the Lit Trip Tips link near the bottom of the page.
You will end up here:
There are directions here for everything you will need. Google Earth also has help directions available.
I will do an afternoon tutorial in the library, sometime after Spring Break.
From Lit Trips:
To do
while you are reading:
- Place Markers: Write down any references to specific locations that are mentioned in the reading assignment. Gather enough information to be able to place a Place Marker on the locations mentioned in the chapters. There may be times when you will want to place several placemarks in one location, if the story moves back and forth through one location.
- If you are reading fiction, you may have to “make up” a place
- Images: Collect URLs for images that might enhance the comprehension of the setting, characters, plot, and/or themes or images that enhance comprehension of the historical, geographical, social, political, or other relevant subjects associated with the reading assignment. It is important to collect the URL for the website where the graphic is found. Students should seek graphics that are between 300 and 600 pixels wide.
- URLs: Locate appropriate website URLs where additional information can be found to enhance the understanding of any relevant elements of the story. These could include biographical information about "real" characters mentioned in the reading, historical background for events in the story, etc.
- Discussion Starters: Students will write "discussion starters" for the reading assignment. These might be questions, speculations, suggestions of connections to current real world parallels, etc.
- Vocabulary terms: with explanations of how these terms are used in the context of the story. (at least 10 words)
The rubric will be available after Spring Break.
Save the URLS, images and the Google kmz file in one folder labeled lastname_firstinitial_littrip
The project will be turned in electronically.