Teaching with and through Maps

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 25.04.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background and Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  7. Resources
  8. Notes

Mapping Frankenstein

Alyssa Lucadamo

Published September 2025

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Notes

1 Berry and McNeilly, Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Map Making, Imagination, and Travel, 8.

2 Delaware Department of Education, “duPont (Pierre S.) Middle School Snapshot,” September 30, 2024.

3 Harris and Zha, “Concept mapping for critical thinking: efficacy, timing, & type,” (accessed June 3, 2025).

4 Wang and Dwyer, “Instructional effects of three concept mapping strategies in facilitating student achievement,” (accessed May 3, 2025).

5 Boutelier, “Using Students’ Emotional Responses to Texts to Boost Literacy,” Edutopia, March 11, 2020, https://www.edutopia.org/article/using-students-emotional-responses-texts-boost-literacy.

6 Cavell, “The Sea of Ice and the Icy Sea: The Arctic Frame of Frankenstein,” 298.

7 Martin, “William Scoresby, Jr. (1789-1857) and the Open Polar Sea - Myth and Reality,” 43.

8 Cosgrove, Apollo’s Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination, 216.

9 Shelley, Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus; the 1818 Text, 181.

10 Cavell, 305.

11 Scobie, “Mary Shelley’s Monstrous Explorers: James Cook, James King, and a Sledge in Kamchatka,” 8–14.

12 Denali Education Center, “First People Of The Arctic,” (accessed July 12, 2025), https://www.denali.org/natural-history/first-people-of-the-arctic/.

13 Arctic Portal, “Indigenous Knowledge & Contributions,” (accessed July 12, 2025), https://arcticportal.org/the-arctic-portlet/expeditions/indigenous-knowledge-contributions.

14 Cosgrove, 214.

15 Turner, “Writing in the Anthropocene from the Global North to the Global South: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Richard Powers's The Echo Maker,” 220-221.

16 Shelley, 6-7.

17 Ibid., 36.

18 Turner, 223.

19 Burke and Herron, Frankenstein Map, University of Maryland Libraries, March 28, 2024, GIS story map, https://lib.guides.umd.edu/c.php?g=741698&p=6017370.

20 National Geographic Society, “GIS (Geographic Information System),” June 5, 2025, https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/geographic-information-system-gis.

21 Moll, A Map of the North Pole : With All the Territories That Lye near It, Known to Us &c.: According to the Latest Discoveries, and Most Exact Observations: Agreeable to Modern History.

22 British Library, “Overwintering: The Dutch Search for the Northwest Passage,” European Studies Blog (blog), February 20, 2015, https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2015/02/overwintering.html.

23 Jørgensen, “The First Wintering on Svalbard,” 295.

24 Carey, A Map of the Countries Situated about the North Pole as Far as the 50th Degree of North Latitude.

25 Cosgrove, 220.

26 Royal Museums Greenwich, “Samuel Hearne North-West Passage Expedition 1770–72,” (accessed July 14, 2025), https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/samuel-hearne-north-west-passage-expedition-1770-72.

27 de Bruin and Mercer, "Sir Alexander Mackenzie (Explorer)," The Canadian Encyclopedia, (article published January 07, 2008; last edited February 16, 2021), https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-alexander-mackenzie-explorer.

28 Stanford, Stanford’s Map of the Countries Round the North Pole.

29 Shelley, 18-19.

30 Ibid., 53.

31 Ibid., 19-21.

32 Ibid., 20

33 Ibid., 26.

34 Ibid., 21.

35 Ibid., 46.

36 Ibid., 66.

37 Ibid., 138.

38 Ibid., 148, 165, 168.

39 Graham, Genealogical and Historical Diagrams: Illustrative of the History of Scotland, England, France and Germany, from the Ninth Century to the Present Time, 5.

40 Tate, “Romanticism,” (accessed June 15, 2025), https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/r/romanticism.

41 Tate, “Sublime,” (accessed July 13, 2025), https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/sublime.

42 Turner, Mer de Glace, in the Valley of Chamonix, ca 1815.

43 Shelley, 72-76.

44 Cavell, 298.

45 Gonzalez, “4 Things You Don’t Know About the Jigsaw Method,” Cult of Pedagogy, April 15, 2015, https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/jigsaw-teaching-strategy/.

46 Facing History & Ourselves United Kingdom, “Learning to Infer Teaching Strategy,” June 29, 2020, https://www.facinghistory.org/en-gb/resource-library/learning-infer.

47 Boutelier, “Using Students’ Emotional Responses to Texts to Boost Literacy.”

48 Lobeck, Things maps don't tell us: an adventure into map interpretation, 2.

49 Peabody Essex Museum, “Mood-O-Meter,” (accessed July 13, 2025), http://turner.pem.org/.

50 Phillips and Mallock, A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel, 10-11, 51, 90-91, 127.

51 Karimova, “The Emotion Wheel: What It Is and How to Use It,” Positive Psychology, June 9, 2025, https://positivepsychology.com/emotion-wheel/.

52 Berry and McNeilly, 64-65.

53 Ibid., 88-89.

54 Ibid., 52-53.

55 Ibid., 98-99.

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