Google Lit Trips for High School

The Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:48:15 -0700

This Lit Trip is based on Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Big Two-Hearted River" written in 1925, which recounts a trout fishing trip near Seney in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It speculates on the location of Hemingway's 1919 trip to the Seney area by comparing text in the short story to analysis by Prof. Jack Jobst and weaves details about our family camping/canoeing trip on the Fox River in August 2010 with information about the science of stream ecology, entomology, and water resource management.
About the Contributors...
Madeleine Hart and David Hart

Madeleine Hart is a student at Madison West High School.

David Hart is the Geographic Information Systems Specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. Through this position, he conducts research and provides outreach that supports sustainable coastal development along the Great Lakes.

Web: http://maps.aqua.wisc.edu/dhart.htm

Besides being the very first Google Lit Trip based upon a short story, David and Madeleine Hart have taken Google Lit Trips into all new territory as they combined details from Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “The Big Two-Hearted River” with experiences they had on a family vacation. It includes several incredible 360º panorama photographs of the locations they visited along the way. And, it also includes a remarkable collection of resources relating to the science and management information supporting trout fishing!
This Google Earth KMZ file, along with more information about teaching with virtual globes, is also available at Great Lakes Mapping Mashups (http://greatlakesmashups.net/stonelab2010/).

Os Lusíadas by Luís Vaz de Camões

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:14:48 -0700

This Google Lit Trip is entirely in Portugese!
Luís Vaz de Camões (1524-1580), the famous Lisbon poet, composed “Os Lusíadas” in 1572 to glorify the expedition and exploits of Vasco da Gama in the Indian Ocean. In his work he tells the most beautiful and interesting episodes of Portugal’s history.
Montesquieu said, “the discovery of Mozambique, of Melinda and Calcutta has been sung by Camoens, whose poem has something of the charm of the Odyssey and of the magnificence of the Æneid”
About the Contributor...

Teresa Pombo Pereira
http://www.profteresa.net
http://blogicament.blogspot.com
Greetings from Portugal...
I’m a Portuguese Language Teacher (you’d say Language Arts) since 1993. I’ve been also an ICT Trainer for eight years. In 2008, I finished my Master’s Degree Thesis on Educational Science (Educational Technologies) with a work on the development of a Virtual Learning Environment on 8th grade, Language Learning and Formative Evaluation. I’ve been using webpages, blogs, Webquests and other tools and resources since 2003.
My most recent project is about Google Lit Trips (http://viagensliterarias.wordpress.com) where I present my first kmz file, some tutorial and various ideas on how to use Google Earth in Literature studies.
So, enjoy the reading (http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lus/index.htm )! Enjoy the trip!

Expedition Literature: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:40:12 -0800

This student-generated project on Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is just one of several Expedition Literature Trips developed by the students of Mr. Thomas Cooper of The Walker School in Marrietta, Georgia.

Among the titles developed by Thomas Cooper’s students are Farther Than Any Man, by Martin Dugard, In theHeart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler, by Jason Robertss, The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, by Nancy Marie Brown, and several other great works of Expedition Literature.

Additional Google Earth projects created by Mr. Cooper's students can be found on their US Project site and on their Expedition Literature site. Read more about Mr. Cooper’s exciting Outdoor Culture and Technology course.

Fifteen Poets

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:12:36 -0700

This student-generated project shares a taste of the poetry of Billy Collins, Elizabeth Bishop, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shel Silverstein, William Wordsworth, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Robert Frost. Each poet is represented by an audio recording of one of his or her famous poems.

The project was developed by student Lacey McLaughlin, as part of a larger Google Earth project created by the students of Mr. Thomas Cooper of The Walker School in Marrietta, Georgia.

Additional Google Earth projects created by Mr. Cooper's students can be found on their US Project site and on their Expedition Literature site.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:23:22 -0800

Retrace Amir’s journey as he tries to “make things good again.”
Be sure to download the Kite Runner Guide and the RE:Wikipedia document below.

About the Contributor...
Jerome Burg
Founder, Google Lit Trips

Jerome Burg is a veteran high school English teacher. He is a frequent conference and workshop presenter. Jerome developed and maintains the GoogleLitTrips Project.

Jerome’s many contributions to educational technology include his being...
• an Apple Distinguished Educator
• a Google Certified Teacher
• a recipient of the Computer Using Educator’s Outstanding Teacher Award
• the developer and project manager for GoogleLitTrips

Traveling with P. G. Wodehouse

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:38:08 -0700

Travel, not only with his characters, but with beloved author, P. G. Wodehouse himself. This Google Lit Trip, contributed by Hetty Litjens of the Netherlands, is an encyclopedic look at the life and travels of P. G. Wodehouse.
Submitted by: Hetty Litjens, The Netherlands

* The author of this Lit Trip maintains an external download site which is continually under revision. To download the latest revision click the View in Google Earth link on this page.

The Aeneid by Virgil

Thu, 1 Feb 2007 08:51:10 -0800

Submitted by: Mathhew Hart, Granada High School, Livermore, CA
Download: Aeneid.kmz
New! Google Book Search Results for The Aeneid of Virgil

Candide by Voltaire

Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:21:27 -0800

You won’t believe what you read and where you go in this satire of the meanderings of one of literature’s most naivé travelers! Written in 1759 by French author and philosopher Voltaire.

About the Contributor...
Jerome Burg
Founder, Google Lit Trips

Jerome Burg is a veteran high school English teacher. He is a frequent conference and workshop presenter. Jerome developed and maintains the GoogleLitTrips Project.

Jerome’s many contributions to educational technology include his being...
• an Apple Distinguished Educator
• a Google Certified Teacher
• a recipient of the Computer Using Educator’s Outstanding Teacher Award
• serving on the Computer Using Educator’s Board of Directors

Download
Click CANDIDE.kmz to download Candide GoogleLit Trip
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:41:08 -0800

During the Great Depression, the Joad family sets out on a journey to find new hope after losing everything they owned in Oklahoma. Along the way, they encounter experiences that reveal the dark underside of capitalistic economies.
About the Contributor...
Jerome Burg
founder, Google Lit Trips Project

Jerome Burg is a veteran high school English teacher. He is a frequent conference and workshop presenter.
Jerome’s many contributions to educational technology include his being...
• a 2010 Laureate for The Tech Awards for Technology Benefitting Humanity
• selected by The Asia Society as a co-recipient of the Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education in Media and Technology
• a recipient of the Computer Using Educator’s Outstanding Teacher Award
• a Board Member of the Computer Using Educator’s
• an Apple Distinguished Educator
• a Google Certified Teacher

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Sun, 1 Oct 2006 01:24:08 -0700

Submitted by: Mathhew Hart, Granada High School, Livermore, CA

Download Macbeth.kmz
New! Google Book Search Results for The Tragedy of Macbeth

Night by Elie Wiesel

Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:21:07 -0700

Elie Wiesel’s Night takes the reader on a journey of horror as Wiesel retells the story of his family’s evacuation during the Nazi Holocaust.

About the Contributor...
Jerome Burg
founder, Google Lit Trips

Jerome Burg is a veteran high school English teacher. He is a frequent conference and workshop presenter. Jerome developed and maintains the GoogleLitTrips Project.

Jerome’s many contributions to educational technology include his being...
• an Apple Distinguished Educator
• a Google Certified Teacher
• a recipient of the Computer Using Educator’s Outstanding Teacher Award
• serving on the Computer Using Educator’s Board of Directors

The Odyssey by Homer

Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:54:45 -0700

Submitted by Matthew Hart, Granada High School, Livermore, CA
Placing the Odyssey’s locales is difficult. There are several different versions competing, all backed by serious critics. One new book actually suggests that Troy was located in England!
I’ve included two versions here. The Odyssey-1B.kmz is a very traditional, Greek-mainland-centric version. The Odyssey-2B.kmz is a more modern, Mediterranean-wide version. My preference is the second version as it lines up better with Virgil and makes more sense in some key spots.

New! Read Google Book Search Results for The Odyssey