For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for October 28, 2023

That’s a cool geography lesson. But, like Liz’s previous sewing homework, it seems to rely heavily on the student having access to an excellent atlas (and a good sewing machine).

Hmm…Greenland.

I was unemployed there once.

I flew over it in 1965 on my way to Iceland where my plane refueled.

I must have missed that part of geography/cartography where the word “relief” is covered….

We had to do that assignment. What a mess. I should have chosen Iceland, or another small country.

Oh what a relief it is.

Today’s Saturday 10 28 23’s old rerun is back on track.

Just off one day.

is on Friday 10 28 94

https://www.gocomics.Com/forbetterorforworse/1994/10/28

(yesterday’s rerun jumped 15 days, note to self)

Which means we won’t miss the puppies story, I hope.

To pick a nit… under all that ice, the actual land of Greenland is several smaller islands.

ba dum tss

Her response is correct, even by her dad’s definition.

Looks like she is using some type of clay instead of paper-mache.

Hey, that’s great practice for a sand table.

Got to love it when Elizabeth beats dad to the dad joke.

“Oh, what a relief it is”

https://youtu.Be/bxjb2UJZ-5I?t=12

…. because it’s so hard.

Hope she doesn’t have to carry this on a school bus.

When that is finished it will be a relief, very true, the lady is smart!

“Hafta”. What a stoopid word.

Good point.

It’s a Continent… Not an Island..

I’d like to see what her relief map of Greenland will be like. Without the glaciers covering most of it (especially its interior), it should look like it has a big depression or lake over most of the middle of it. [It looks kind of weird compared to how we usually see it on a map or globe.]

Who got the “Just Room enough Island”

That too.

We had to do this in 8th grade. We got creative and the teacher got mad. LOL. It was a messy project and what I would now consider busywork for no real benefit.

I thought that was called a topographical map

And I don’t have those in my Rand McNally

I’d pick Hawaii big island. A lot of relief, plus the volcano

I feel you, girl!

Got that right……

That what is called. High School in the 60’s.

During the Korean war, my dad joined the Air Force. They sent him to Thule to protect Greenland from the commies.

I recall doing one of those of the Americas when I was about her age.

My daughter had to make a Mercator projection of the world when she was in elementary school. It had to be out of some material other than pen and paper. Old-fashioned gingerbread (not the cake type) and blue icing did the trick; she rolled it out and spread it on our big cookie sheet. These days, modern geographers would prefer a view which shows the northern countries as their actual size.

Some Words have too many definitions.

I did a relief map of Japan when I was a kid.