The End of the World

The End of the World The End of the World

Rationale:

After you finish Senior year, the parents and the employers expect that my students will be able to do or learn anything necessary as adults. For my purposes, I have distilled this down to these four categories.

Reading a difficult piece of text and understanding it,
Writing a lengthy, persuasive piece,
Scheduling your own time effectively,
Speaking clearly and persuasively, and
Listening carefully.

The Project

You have been invited to a foreign country, where you are to give a speech about a famous work about or from that country. You need to speak to the common people of that country, ones who may not have read the book. Your hosts have been gracious enough to invite you over for a week, although you need only make one speech.

The Project breaks down into three parts:

Schedule: You need to make a personal schedule and keep to it.
Journal: You need to write two pages of Journal entry for every day you are in the country (for a total of 12 pages)
Speech: You need to write and deliver a persuasive speech on your book

Resources

Your resources on-line could be anywhere. Since you need a lot of general information, begin with Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com/. Obviously, go to "Countries" first.

The CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm is a great resource, if you can read the statistics well.

Research-it http://www.itools.com/research-it/research-it.html offers a ton of tools to help with currency exchange and the like. Look through it.

I have always liked Elibrary http://www.elibrary.com/ as a resource. This will get you a pile of information, some of which may not be useful. Remember Barsanti and Presley.

Finally, your books are all over the place and there may not be much on the web. Use some of the search engines like Alta Vista http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query or Excite http://www.excite.com/.

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