After completing your Core Readings, your next step is to read the Lesson Narrative. The Lesson Narrative is your course author and instructor speaking, the online corollary to the lecture in a physical classroom.

The lesson narrative does not merely rehash the content you learned from your core readings; it is not redundant. Instead, this narrative assumes your prior reading and serves to emphasize, round out, extend, and clarify that content. Your course author makes interrelationships and applications of the framework clearer, and reinforces the course terminology by providing examples. The course narrative also summarizes how the current lesson fits with the preceding lesson material, and describes how your own mental framework should be building and growing week to week.

Typically, a lesson narrative is around 10 to 12 pages long. The page titles are listed on the lefthand side lesson navigation, or you can simply click for the next page as you have been doing throughout this module.

There are several videos embedded in the lesson narratives. These feature Carl Steinitz, and other noteworthy Geodesign practitioners describing the geodesign framework and application in real-world projects. Please be sure to watch these videos, as they help reinforce and explain the lesson material in important ways.