A Map and a Dream - A Poetry Break

INTRODUCTION

What would the world be like maps? Maps can be an exciting read in themselves. They can take you to worlds you haven't been. Along with this poem also share different types of maps for the kids to explore. Share this poem with other geographical poems like J. Patrick Lewis' A World of Wonders: Geographic Travels in Verse and Rhyme.

POEM

A Map and a Dream

by Karen O'Donnell Taylor

Maps are more

than tiny lines

intersection

lace designs...

More than names

and colored dots,

rivers, mountains,

tourist spots.

Map are keys

to secret places

vast new world

and unknown faces.

I can trace each

graceful line...

Close my eyes

and in my mind

I can travel

anywhere...

A map, a dream

can take me there!

EXTENSION

Invite the kids to write a poem about a map that they particularly like. Why do they like? What is the map of? What can maps do? See what the world on paper means to them!

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Hopkins, Lee Bennet (sel). 2006. Got Geography! Illus. by Philip Stanton. NY: Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN: 9870060556020.