Bill Shakespeare was a

Geographer….

…Or getting literacy into Geography

21/38

Measure for Measure

The Tempest

Using literature to set the scene

Midsummer Night’s Dream

King Lear

Spot the geographic feature…

The Tempest (on St Elmo’s Fire)

Comparing to other texts

Jules Verne ‘Journey to the Centre of the Earth’

Robert Harris ‘Pompeii’

Shakespeare in the Little Ice Age

Julius Caesar

The Tempest

As You Like It

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.

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

Other literacy type activities…(There’s more to life than Shakespeare)