Mapping Setting in Walk Two Moons

The setting of a story is the location and time, or the where and when. Settings often play a crucial role especially in the case of historical fiction or when there are multiple places as is the case in the book Walk Two Moons. Students will create a map of Sal's journey in order to identify the different settings in the book. They can trace the route that she and her grandparents traveled throughout the United States. The template provides a blank map of the United States and students are invited to add symbols and scenes to indicate where Sal stopped along the way out west from Bybanks, Kentucky to Idaho. Students may use the postcard side of the template to choose one place on Sal's journey to highlight. They may create a scene, write a description of the place below the picture and then write a postcard from Sal's point of view to someone back in Euclid, OH. She could write to her father, Phoebe, Ben, or another character. Places Sal visited: Chicago, IL, Madison Wisconsin, Wisconsin Dells, Pipestone National Monument, MN, Badlands, SD, Mount Rushmore, SD, Old Faithful, WY, Coeur d'Alene, ID and Lewiston, ID.

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Objective: Create a storyboard identifying the different settings in the book Walk Two Moons.

Student Instructions:

1. Click "Start Assignment".
2. Identify the different places Sal visited on her journey cross-country in Walk Two Moons.
3. Add symbols to the map and correspond them to the key by writing the place names in the key.
4. On the Postcard, highlight one of your favorite places that Sal visited.
5. Create a picture on the postcard using appropriate scenes, characters and items and label it with the place name
6. Write a postcard from Sal's point of view to someone back home in Euclid, OH. Sal could write to Phoebe, Ben, her dad or someone else.