Virtually Touring Pride & Prejudice

6th grade, Language Arts Core Curriculum

Standard 7
Comprehension-Students understand, interpret, and analyze narrative and informational grade level text.

Objective 2
Apply strategies to comprehend text.

a. Relate prior knowledge to make connections to text (e.g., text to text, text to self, text to world).
b. Generate questions about text (e.g., factual, inferential, evaluative).
c. Form mental pictures to aid understanding of text.

I chose this content area because I particularly love literature. I have always been personally interested in the happenings of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and I thought this would be a good opportunity for me to discover some locations throughout the book. I believe that teacher enthusiasm for a given topic can in many ways determine the success of an activity in the classroom. I am certainly enthusiastic about Jane Austen and therefore chose to make her work the focus of my virtual tour.

A virtual tour will be a particularly useful means of obtaining these objectives. Google Earth will allow the students to connect text to world. The images will give students a more accurate schemata and context in which to understand the happenings of the story. Through the activities, students will use questioning skills to reflect and make connections from text to themselves. By seeing the literal locations for the four sites from the book, I hope to encourage students to make a mental image of the happenings within the text.