1. Re-imaging place through the creative use of text Mark Jones, UWE PGCE Geography Tutor. Wiltshire and Swindon Annual Secondary Geography conference22 June 2010

2. Geography and English collaborations -1Landscapes ofLanguage 3. EnglishGeography Y9post SATs English lessons LEDC Tourism through a range of media and genres Landscapes of Language 4. 5. What do you think this country is like? 6. Explanation of the Flag of Kenya Black Majority Blood Natural Wealth Peace Masai Shield and spears: defence of freedom 7.

Questioning reliability of sources

Unreliable

Reliable

What issues and questions were raised by doing this activity?

8. Where can we get sources of information on Kenya?

internet,travel brochures , travel guide books, TV holiday programmes, films, photographs, postcards, people who have been,diaries ,autobiographies , news reports, recipes, newspapers, radio, atlas,blogs, micro blogs e.g. twitter, school text and reference books, people from Kenya

9. 10. Homework: Fiction writing

Write the opening of a story which is set in Kenya. In this you should:

introduce a main character -write in first person narrative style

include reference to factual geographical information which you have researched, using technical vocabulary

encourage the reader to want to read on

design a front cover & title

11. 12. 13.

Produce a code: How to be a responsible tourist. Either:

1. Storyboard for an in-flight video

2. Instruction sheet to be located in

the seat pocket

3. Version aimed at younger travellers

e.g. informative cartoons, poster

4. Something of your choice

14. I realised that Englishdoes need geography to work effectively seeing tourism in a new way Fascinating Year 9 student comments 15. English English & Geography More Geography than English Geography % students responses Question -What have these 5 lessons felt like? 16. Geography in stories makes them more realistic In English there should be geography inwhatever you do and the same in geography there should be English English needs geographyto be convincing We had to use geographical factsin our story writing,.. that writing ismore effective if it has facts in.. English and geography areboth dependent on each other I can see how you tried to link geography and English but for me it was just one lesson Year 9 student comments 17. Geography and English collaborations -2Town as Text 18. Source: David Job (1999) New Directions in Geographical Fieldworkp.23 19. Old City Broadmead Cabot Circus 51 02 PRSC 20. Town as Text: reading the city 21. Images 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Affective mapping 30. Book cover and opening chapter 31. 32. 33. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 Haiku 34. GentrificationMaking the old new againWho is moving in ? 35. Surveillance city On camera day and nightWatching out for crime 36. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 Acrostic 37. Street names 38. GeographyEnglishHaikus based on experiencing a new mega-retail developmentRetail Revival Cathedral of Consumption Winners and losers Dead city centre Retail-led regenerates Reverses decline I am a theme park With more open than closed I need therapy 39. Poetry street name 40. Activity take a street name you know 41. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 Emotional view 42. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 Display 43. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 monopoly 44. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 Book title and chapter 45. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 Haiku 46. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 Wordle 47. UWE PGCE English and geography 2009-2010 wordscape 48. Text Trail Text Trail Text Trail Text Trail Text trail 49. BloomAnderson, & Krathwohl 19562001Synthesis Evaluation Evaluating Creating