Hickson Homework

This lesson was conducted in the following classes:

• Cavo, 7-8
• Kayal, 13-14
• Cavo, 17-18

Handouts

• Note-taking organizers (1 for each country card assigned on Day 5)

Vocabulary

Pathfinder: Guide. A set of resources selected by the librarian to help students with a particular assignment.

Catalog: An online list that organizes and makes it easy to find the items that a library owns.

Activity & Discussion

The goal for this day was to learn about and use additional research tools: the online catalog and the project pathfinder.

Ms. Hickson showed the class the cart of country books she had pulled and reserved for the Advanced Academic Literacies classes. The books are organized on the cart by continent. Because many classes will be conducting this research at the same time, the books may not be checked out and must be used in the library. The books will be available on the cart through the end of May.

Ms. Hickson then demonstrated the online pathfinder for this project. The pathfinder includes recommended databases, e-books, and web sites, including sites that specialize in each of the continents being studied. She especially recommended the following resources for each of the research cards:

• Card 1: All sites listed under Travel Services, Reservations & Prices
• Card 2: International Travel Alerts; all sites listed under Travel Services, Reservations & Prices; all sites listed under Travel Guides, especially Fodor’s, Frommer’s, iExplore, Travel.State.Gov, and Virtual Tourist
• Card 3: All sites listed under Travel Services, Reservations & Prices; all sites listed under Travel Guides, especially Fodor’s, Frommer’s, iExplore, Travel.State.Gov; Virtual Tourist for restaurant prices
• Card 4: CountryWatch, International Travel Alerts, Portals to the World, World Factbook
• Card 5: Gale Virtual Reference Library-Juniour Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Gale Virtual Reference Library-Countries and Their Cultures, Grolier Online-Lands & Peoples
• Card 6: International Travel Alerts, Travel.State.Gov

Homework

Work on your in-depth country research (using the colored cards that were assigned to you). Your teacher will discuss deadlines for the detailed research when you return to your regular classroon.

This lesson was conducted in the following classes:

• Cavo, 7-8
• Kayal, 13-14
• Cavo, 17-18

Handouts

• Group task instructions: Choose countries
• Cooperative Learning Roles: Country Decisions
• Country jigsaw note-taking sheet
• Research card decks
• Research Responsibilities grid
• Homework: Country Decision Log

Activity & Discussion

The goal for today’s time in the Media Center was to share country research summaries, pick the three countries that your team will visit, and assign in-depth research responsibilities to each team member.

Using the research summaries that they had prepared for homework, each team member spent two minutes briefing the team on two countries, providing their recommendation about whether to travel there and stating reasons why. As each team member spoke, the remaining team members took notes, which they will refer to when writing their decision-log homework.

After all team members had reported on their countries, the teams selected the three countries that their company would visit. Using color-coded decks of country research-assignment cards, team members divided responsibility for researching six key aspects of the three countries:

1. Activities, culture & entertainment
2. Transportation & travel
3. Food & lodging
4. National & local profile
5. Cross-cultural communication
6. Timing, health & safety

Homework

Check in with your team members to determine the countries they selected, the reasons why, and your research responsibilities.

Complete the Personal Decision Log-Country Choices assignment on Nice Net; due by midnight on Friday, Nov. 6.

Submit to Ms. Hickson your completed country fact sheets (2), your country summary sheet (1, double-sided), and any corresponding web-evaluation sheets (if you used web sources).

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