If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker
A Look Inside Imaginary Lands
As part of expository/informational writing (coupled with creative writing), my sixth graders worked on a project in which they invent an Imaginary Land and then create a travel brochure, using techniques gained from examining real travel brochures and advertising campaigns. They amount of investment they put into this project is pretty cool, and the coupling of writing and art really fuels a lot of them to do great work.
I scanned in a bunch of the maps, in particular, to share with parents and so I share them with you, too.
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Peace (in new worlds),
Kevin
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about 4 years ago
These are great. I will add a link, if it’s okay, as we have to create imaginary worlds as part of one of our primary units on journeys.