Anne bradstreet educational games for toddlers

Join us on a seventeenth-century literary adventure!! We have created an interactive video game set in Anne's hometown as part of our own quest to reinvigorate her historical and literary legacy. We want you to play with us! Users collect fragments of her poetry from friends and neighbors geolocated throughout the original colonial settlement.

Once you arrive in a given destination, you converse with a character—who may or may not give you a poem, depending on your responses. Usually, you need to be in North Andover to play. We believe the narrative interacts meaningfully with the natural environment—and that the best way to play is with your feet on the ground of the former colonial settlement.

To reach a wider audience, however, we have temporarily turned off the geolocation requirement of our game. This means that you can play virtually without being in North Andover. Given this allowance, however, we ask you to imagine you are on a walk that takes you through a thicket, among historical houses, and across the town common. Select our game, travel to North Andover virtually or really , and set out on a literary adventure!

This easy-to-deliver one-day lesson will briefly introduce students to Anne Bradstreet, Puritan wife, mother of eight, and celebrated poet.

Over the next semester, we hope to revise the game and convert it into a stand alone app rather than through the ARIS platform. We would love to hear from you as we revise: Did you play the game? Did you like it? Was something seem off?