The Maps of Ship-Trap Island

Once I had my high school students read The Most Dangerous Game, a short story by Richard Connell. Rainsford, the main character, is a professional hunter traveling by ship to his next hunting area, accidentally ends up in an island called Ship- Trap island. When he goes into the island he finds there are two men living in a palace in the island. One of them is a Cossack general and the other, his brutish servant. 

The Cossack is called general Zaroff who is also  a game hunter but has become bored of hunting regular game and now uses the island's unique position to capture sailors from shipwrecks. He lets them go first and next after some time he hunts them down. Rainford's arrival who is worldwide famous presents Zaroff with a rare opportunity to find excitement in hunting again by hunting another hunter. Little does Zaroff know that Rainsford is The Most Dangerous Game in the World and hunting him will not be easy at all.

My students enjoyed themselves at reading this story and as part of their responses to the story I tasked them with creating maps of Ship-Trap island and of course that also gave me a great oportunity to introduce vocabulary such as gulf, harbor, peninsula, cape; all of them, words that regularly they are not exposed to. 

They worked hard, but there were those who did better than the others. Displayed here are the four best works I received, though they were all great!