MDE+-+Google+Lit.+Trip+Review

I chose to review the Lit. Trip for __Night__  by Elie Wiesel. The page containing the download can be found [| here.] Having read the book recently I was very familiar with the story, so getting to see all of the settings as place-marks was fascinating. Wiesel’s writing makes the horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps very real, but getting to see geographically where these places were in relation to one another and where some of them still stand as monuments was chilling.  Included with the place-marks was information about what had happened at each of these places and why it was significant. There were photos, written information, and hyperlinks to further reading included with just about every place-mark. I also found it handy that the place-marks were split up so that you could see which chapters of the book happened in a particular location. It was very easy to use and I can’t wait to incorporate it into my lesson plans. Having some geographical context while reading a novel really heightens the experience and makes the story more vivid and more real. I can’t wait to utilize this.