Activity Ideas: Zones of Proximity

A teaching resource created by the HEA English Subject Centre.

'Zones of proximity' is a visual approach to support students in evaluating and prioritising ideas concepts and additional material for the analysis of a text. It can be used for a range of purposes: as part of the planning process when writing an essay to evaluate the significance of critical responses to a text or to evaluate which narrative concepts or poetic techniques it might be most fruitful to consider. In each case the basic method remains the same.