1. Bienvenidos…vamos a un viaje
SENORA MICHAELS
STANDARDS:
Communication, Culture, Comparisons
"We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race." --Kofi Annan

2. INTRODUCTION
TASK
PROCESS
RESOURCES
EVALUATION
CONCLUSION

3. Introduction
You are going to a Spanish-speaking country to study abroad for a semester.

4. TASK
Write a postcard to your parents/family members from the Spanish-speaking city where you are studying in. Write your postcard in Spanish and design the postcard with landmarks from your current “home”.

5. PROCESS Research Spanish-speaking countries and cities
Choose the place where you will study abroad
Research your new “home” using the Resources page
Answer the Country/Culture Fact Sheet
Search for pictures on the web of major landmarks/points of interest in your city
Write a rough draft of your postcard in Spanish (No translators!)
Create and design the final version of your postcard using the pictures you found

6. National Geographic: People/Places
RESOURCES
Lonely Planet
CIA Publications
Currency Converter
National Geographic: People/Places

7. EVALUATION Students will be evaluated on their completion of the country/culture fact sheet and their postcard (see rubric).
Country/Culture Fact Sheet
20 points
Postcard
30 points

8. Postcard Rubric 10-9 8-7 6-0 Spanish Language (grammar, spelling)
Bien
Asi Asi
Mal
Spanish Language (grammar, spelling)
Little or no errors. Message was interesting and made sense.
More than 2 errors in the body of the letter. Some difficulties with sentences.
Many errors in the the body of the letter. Message was missing sentences or difficult to read.
Design
(use of resources)
Nice use of resources documenting pictures of the country, culture, landmarks.
Use of pictures, however, more effort is needed in the research of landmarks, country, etc.
No evidence of research documenting country, culture, landmarks.
Neatness
Message was neat, lines were straight, pictures were neatly placed on the postcard.
Body and design of postcard need to be arranged better.
No effort was devoted to neatness.

9. CONCLUSION
Now that you have studied abroad, you have learned about the geography, people, culture and language of a Spanish-speaking country.
Compare/Contrast some things that you learned
“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences." -- M.Scott Peck