Is Geography a subject?

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Bill Shakespeare was a Geographer….so was Pythagoras

Jo Debens @GeoDebs

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Using Bill's blurb to set the scene

Contagious fogs; which falling in the landHave every pelting river made so proudThat they have over borne their continents…That nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,And the quaint mazes in the wanton greenFor lack of tread are indistinguishable

To bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprisoned in the view less winds,And blown with restless violence aboutThe pendant world

The Isle is full of noises,Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices

Measure for Measure

The Tempest

Midsummer Night’s Dream

…but mad north-north west….My hour is almost comeWhen I to sulphurous and tormenting flamesMust render up myself

Hamlet (written in Denmark, completed 1599)

(NNW from Denmark was Iceland…Mount Hekla…1597 eruption)

Play spot the geographic feature…

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blowYou cataracts and hurricanoes, spoutTill you have drench'd our steeples, drowned the clocks!You sulph'rous and thought-executing fires,Vaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts,Singe my white head; and thou all-shaking Thunder,Strike flat the thick rotundity o'th'world! King Lear

Above our heads, not more than 500 feet away, was the crater of the volcano. Every quarter of an hour there came flying from it a tall column of flames mixed with pumice stone, ashes, and lava, together with a deafening explosion. I felt the whole mountain heave every time it breathed, sending out, like a whale, fire and air through its enormous blowholes. Jules Verne ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’

"Mother Nature is punishing us, for our greed and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood, fire and stone. We dig her up and dump her in the sea. We sink mine shafts into her and drag out her entrails – and all for a jewel to wear on a pretty finger. Who can blame her if she occasionally quivers with anger and rains fire upon us?" Pliny. Robert Harris ‘Pompeii’

Comparative text analysis…Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursorsO' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentaryAnd sight-outrunning were run; the fire and cracksOf sulphurous roaring the most mighty NeptuneSeem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble The Tempest

Shakespeare was a Little Ice Age climatologist…I have seen tempests, when the scolding windsHave roved the knotty oaks, and I have seenThe ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,To be exalted with the threatening clouds

Julius Caesar

Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,Dashes the fire out. Oh I have suffered. The Tempest

The season's difference, as the icy fangAnd churlish chiding of the winter's wind,Which, when it bites and blows upon the body,Even till I shrink with cold… As You Like It

Challenge misconceptions…Play spot the mistake with texts

e.g.• Shakespeare described Bohemia as coastal…

but it is central Prague• Athens is described as a ‘real English

countryside’

Fact vs Fiction• Using the extract of text that you have use the internet to find out how accurate that description is of the place

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

So, what about the maths?

Simple shape work

Multi-layered graphicacy

Step challenges…

Making equipment…

Go for a walk…

Lego graphs

Use numbers to tell a story…

What do these numbers refer to? Discuss in pairs and come up with a logical order / set of reasons.

30 years 61%

2007 314 per 1000

9,076,900

Translate into graphs…

Identify links between features

Explaining differences &

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Managem

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Linking to sustainabilityMap skills & GIS

Research & using data

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Literacy

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“All have the ability to advance in knowledge”

Pythagoras

Jo Debens @GeoDebs