Text mapping exercises (i)

1. Text map a) Susanna and b) Bel and the Dragon, the group of stories which are found in the Apocrypha. The texts are accessible at the Apocrypha section of The Net Bible

2. I have prepared the text for you. (Click here to download it.). Print the sheets out and make scrolls out of the sheets. As you map out the text, you want to be answering the following questions:

a) What is the setting of the stories?

b) Who are the characters in the story and in what ways are they characterized?

c) What are the crisis/conflict points in the stories? How are these crises resolved?

d) Stories often are written to shape community values and to engender hope. What values are affirmed in this text? What hope is inspired in these texts?

What textual evidence is there to support your answers?

Actually, if you wish, you could use the "WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW, WHY" concept map in tandem with text mapping to try to summarize your ideas, or to allow different groups to develop their understanding of particular characters, etc.