Mappity Map Map Maps

For an artistically non-inclined student such as myself, there was great room for error in a project such as this. However, a few things did follow a preferred route for us. For one, deciding the method of passage for each of our traded items was fairly easy. Once we had done our research and had a basis of understanding for the trade, it was not very hard at all to think of how they would be transported. On another hand, a second thing that went well was locating natural obstructions to our trade routes. As we placed these geographic formations last, they we easy to locate. Lastly, a third thing to go well was our actual drawing of routes. Conveniently, we managed to pick items that had fairly simple routes to document. In terms of what went wrong...I wish I would not have to talk about it. However, Im going to have to in order to get my check plus on this homework assignment. First of all, the presence of a scale was absolutely infuriating. I get really uptight about having things right and not out of place...so having to follow a scale with a hand drawn map was a really panic-inducing feat for me. The pressure freaked me out, Mr. Whitten. Secondly, I am an awful artist. Because of this, I feel that our map was not quite so neat as it could have been. Cue stress. Thirdly, it was really difficult to relate the big map to a map about a sixth of its size. To be honest, this project was pretty difficult. The paper portion was fine, but the map...that's a different story. I had a very hard time with it...drawing the map over on to an absolutely prehistorically obsese MAMMOTH poster board was very difficult for me (I'm not an artist AT ALL). In complete honesty, if it weren't for the savior paper portion of this project, I would have truly hated it. Thankfully it is all over now, however. In terms of collaboration, it went well. I was very glad to have my partner, Melissa, working on the map with me. She is a good artist, and it was very helpful to have her there. Plus, without a partner, I think I would have absolutely drowned in the work that went into the map. I was very thankful to be able to have a partner. If I were presented with this project again, I would first cry myself to sleep a little bit to eliminate stress off the bat. Maybe I wouldn't cry myself to sleep. But I'd do something close to that. However, I would allot myself more time on the map portion by taking it home and working on it at night to make sure I could have it as accurate and neat as possible.