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Bill Shakespeare was a
Geographer….
…Or getting literacy into Geography
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Measure for Measure
The Tempest
Using literature to set the scene
Midsummer Night’s Dream
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King Lear
Spot the geographic feature…
The Tempest (on St Elmo’s Fire)
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Comparing to other texts
Jules Verne ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’
Robert Harris ‘Pompeii’
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Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age
Julius Caesar
The Tempest
As You Like It
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Using your imagination can lead to problems of misconception…
e.g.•Bohemia is landlocked…but is described as coastal•Athens is described as a real English countryside
So…give students some text, analyse it, spot the deliberate mistake.
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Challenge
• Using the extract of text that you have use the internet to find out how accurate that description is of the place• Fact vs fiction
BRONZE task:Find and locate the real location in the modern world.Find 3 images to show the area today.Describe the location.Compare to what your text said: similarities and differences.
SILVER task:Can you plot this information onto a map (O.S. map through Bing or Google Earth screenshot)?Describe the modern location & compare to the text in detail: social, economic, environmental.
GOLD task:Can you create photo &
text place-marks on Google Earth? Create a tour that compares the text information to the modern day location. Include specific fact,
e.g. development data
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Other literacy type activities…(There’s more to life than Shakespeare)
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