Preliminary research
Create a website or (slides presentation) that teaches us about your country.
Do not copy and paste anything. All summary, paraphrase, and quotation must be correctly cited.
Email Mr. K. the link, and then present it to us.
A. Your home (or title) page should have imagery about your country, including a map, a flag, and a national hero.
B. Make a page (or slide) for general information, on which you address some of these topics. Organize the information into paragraphs. Use images to break up the text. Give us a sense of the country.
Geography
Politics
Economy
C. Make a page (or slide) for culture that addresses the following topics. Organize the information into paragraphs. Use images to break up the text.
Social roles
Education and Health
Religion(s)
Arts
D. A page (or slide) for tourism in which you identify two places you would like to visit and why you would like to visit them. Include imagery.
E. A page (or slide) for current events: Identify and explain three current issue/events that have made news in the past year or so. Link the relevant articles.
F. A page (or slide) for literature. What should we read from this country? Link at least 5 contemporary (since 1950) short stories or poems that you think show us something about the country. With each link, include a sentence or two explaining what's interesting to you about that story or poem.
G. A works cited page with active links.
Here are some resources:
The World Factbook from the Central Intelligence Agency
NYTimes World: search your country for current events.
A very searchable World Atlas
In Google, type __________ authors, and browse the ones that are still alive...
The Wikipedia page of each author may give you useful basic information and links
A miraculously easy way to cite your sources: Easybib.com
You will have a few minutes to present your website to us. Show us what's interesting:
- What are the five most important facts we should know about your country?
- What surprised you most to learn about your country?
- What are the three things about your country that make it the most different from ours?
- What literature have you read so far from your country, and what has it shown you about life there, or life in general?