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I have my students create Life Maps, and I would like to have them create this on Padlet using actual maps.

I would also use this feature when teaching Randa Abdel-Fattah's Where the Streets Had a Name.

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I'd love to use the maps in our study of Julie Otsuka's When the Emperor Was Divine, particularly in indicating how remote internment camps for Japanese-Americans were from the communities in which they had lived.

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Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

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Manzanar National Historic Site California In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote, military-style camps. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were incarcerated during World War II.

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I would use it to have students look at places on google maps and them write about them: Important places in their lives or where they want to go in the world.

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research settings for their character creations

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Students write "Immigrant Narratives" to honor someone in their lives/community, and I'm really excited to use these mapping tools to support 'preliminary' descriptive writing (of family/ancestry hometowns in other countries). Also considering an alternative "Memory Map" option for final product (usually is a photobook).

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I would like to integrate the concept maps in one of my students' final projects where they write a collection of vignettes. I think it would be cool to have them map out their writing about personal experiences they've had in relation to place

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This would be an interesting follow-up for the unit on the poem "Written By Himself" by Gregory Pardlo, which refers repeatedly to the place where the poet was born.

I usually ask students to write poems with a similar format, saying "I was born" at the beginning of the lines.

We could then make a padlet with the place on maps, including their photos if they have, and video or written descriptions/stories of the places they would like to talk about.

I would not require that they talk about any one particular place, but rather choose places that feel significant to them.

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I was born in minutes in a roadside kitchen a skillet whispering my name. I was born to rainwater and lye;

I was born across the river where I

was borrowed with clothespins, a harrow tooth,

broadsides sewn in my shoes. I returned, though

it please you, through no fault of my own,

pockets filled with coffee grounds and eggshells.

I was born still and superstitious; I bore an unexpected burden.

I gave birth, I gave blessing, I gave rise to suspicion.

I was born abandoned outdoors in the heat-shaped air,

air drifting like spirits and old windows.

I was born a fraction and a cipher and a ledger entry;

I was an index of first lines when I was born.

I was born waist-deep stubborn in the water crying

ain't I a woman and a brother I was born

to this hall of mirrors, this horror story I was

born with a prologue of references, pursued

by mosquitoes and thieves, I was born passing

off the problem of the twentieth century: I was born.

I read minds before I could read fishes and loaves;

I walked a piece of the way alone before I was born.

Gregory Pardlo, "Written by Himself" from Digest. Copyright © 2010, 2014 by Gregory Pardlo. Reprinted by permission of Four Way Books, www.fourwaybooks.com.

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Written by Himself by Gregory Pardlo | Poetry Foundation

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I was born in minutes in a roadside kitchen a skillet

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I want to use the google map mind map when having my seniors develop their future memoirs. Honoring the places that are significant to them in the past and present, and then thinking about where they want to be will add the extra layer of making their memoirs come alive in the setting aspect.