A world for your adventure

A world for your adventure

Yawa's comic moves between ordinary places and a fictional discovery. Separate real-world research from imagined technology. Your story map is not a verified map of Ghana.

Map an original setting. Label three places and one safe route.

Place / what happens there / what a visitor notices

Rules and history

A rule of my fictional world ... A limit to that rule ...

1. Before the story - draw, say or write your response.
2. A change - draw, say or write your response.
3. Now - draw, say or write your response.
4. Possible future - draw, say or write your response.

One real fact I researched: source and date. One invented detail:

Teacher notes World-building

Purpose and preparation

30 minutes. Offer an imaginary museum or neighbourhood as a setting. No claim that fictional maps satisfy real-country geography standards.

Suggested responses

1. The magnetic gold and unusual bowl communications belong to the comic's imagined adventure; do not present them as established science.
2. A world rule should remain consistent and have a limit; label invented changes clearly.
3. Suggested US W.4.3: organised narrative writing; English planning and revising are suitable links.

Support and stretch

Read aloud; invite pointing, drawings or dictation. Extend by asking for a page or picture clue.

Teaching links

Suggested England English: discussing reading and explaining ideas. US literacy links apply only to the stated school age group, not automatically to babies. Adapt to the learner; these materials are not an accredited curriculum.