Students are provided with a list of instructions for making their maps of Ship Trap Island. The instructions includes details to locate, and how to make their key. Students are supplied with paper, colored pencils, and time for designing and executing their map of Ship Trap Island. Students share their completed maps with the class, justifying their locations of details. Students complete an observation chart of their group's performance.
Students determine their own grade for the activity.
Given the many setting clues in the story, which give the students the details on their maps, it is always amazing at how different their maps turn out. Richard Connell's exciting short story is made more concrete and enjoyable by this map-making activity.