1. Warm up: Read and conduct literary analysis on the passage below.
When the still sea conspires an armor And her sullen and aborted Currents breed tiny monsters True sailing is dead Awkward instant And the first animal is jettisoned Legs furiously pumping Their stiff green gallop And heads bob up Poise Delicate
AUTHOR UKNOWN

2. 18th century sailors and literature document maritime events encounter
18th century sailors and literature document maritime events encounter. This poem describes horse latitudes.
When the still sea conspires an armor And her sullen and aborted Currents breed tiny monsters True sailing is dead Awkward instant And the first animal is jettisoned Legs furiously pumping Their stiff green gallop And heads bob up Poise Delicate

3. The Horse Latitudes are an area in the Atlantic Ocean where the trade winds died and which would stall early Spanish ships sailing to the New World. To lighten the ships, the sailors would throw heavy cargo overboard to lighten the load, which would allow the weak sails to pull the ship out of the doldrums. This included furniture, crates of dishes, and even 
cannons.  When particular areas were still too calm, they were forced to toss over their frightened horses into the sea. The legend is that the horses would swim after them for miles before they drowned, and the superstitious sailors would hear the horse screams in their haunted dreams for the rest of the voyage.  
This weather phenomena occurs between 30 and 35 degrees north and south of the equator.  The air often sinks in these regions and most of the major deserts around the world can be found in this band.

4. Read this…
The Pacific doldrums were famously described in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner in the following stanzas:
All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon, ' Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, no breath no motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean

5. Phantom Tollbooth
The doldrums gave rise to a place called The Doldrums in the Phantom Tollbooth inhabited by the Lethargarians who do nothing all day, a place where "nothing ever happens and nothing ever changes" and where they can do "anything as long as it's nothing, and everything as long as it isn't anything."

6. The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth is a children's adventure novel and modern fairy tale (or contemporary fantasy) published in 1961, written by Norton Juster
It tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo who unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth one afternoon and, having nothing better to do, decides to drive through it in his toy car.
The tollbooth transports him to a land called the Kingdom of Wisdom. There he acquires two faithful companions, has many adventures, and goes on a quest
The text is full of puns, and many events, such as Milo's jump to the Island.
You will create a first person account of such an adventure and create a map in scroll form that tells the tale of your adventure with weather and climate encounters as sailors encountered during the 18th century as well.