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= = = = =** CONGRATULATIONS!!!! You have won an all expenses paid trip to Europe. You were told to choose four European countries you would like to visit. You will spend three days in each country. **=

Click on the @RESOURCES page to __help__ you plan your journey.

1. Choose at least four countries from both Western (2) and Eastern(2) Europe you would like to visit. Color those countries on your map.

2. Decide where you will visit in each of these countries. Label them on your map. You may choose to spend all three days in one place in each country or visit three different places. Use Google Earth to help you with your decision. Decide the order you wish to visit these countries and draw your route.

3. Prepare a comparison chart on each country. Your textbook is an excellent source for beginning your research. You may use an excel document or set it up in table format in Word.

4. __Complete__ your planning organizers (linked on @resource page). Phrases are fine.

5. You will now keep a day by day journey. Begin on Day One with how you happened to __win__ this trip. Are you going alone? With some one? A group? Write your diary in Word. Once it is edited, spell checked, etc., you may paste it into your wiki. Include at least one picture or video for each day of your visit.

6. In each country you need to include the Geography, Culture, History, and Economy of the country or the specific place you are visiting. You may "fit" them into your diary by stating you did a little research, read it in the newspaper, were told about it on a tour or from a native, etc. Some __information__ such as geography and culture may be observable or experienced.

7. Include one current event item from each country. __Complete__ an information sheet on this event. The current event must be current - no more than a month old. Link the **article at the end of your three day diary for each country.**


 * 8. You need to do a works cited section at the end of your journal. Me sure to keep track of your __sites__ as you are researching.**

9. Each country will count as one assessment grade.

= **A Virtual Tour of Europe – Due Dates** =


 * WEDNESDAY – JANUARY 11** - Choose four countries, decide where you are going in each country, label it on the map, draw your route and color the four countries as a political map.


 * MONDAY– JANUARY 23** - __Complete__ your comparison chart on an excel spreadsheet. Print and turn in. Complete your planner for the first country. You can add things not on your planner if you run across something interesting as you write your diary. **Be sure you complete the planner for each country before writing your diary.** I will be checking it. This helps you formulate your thoughts before writing your diary.

To keep you from becoming “bogged down” You should have one country done a week.


 * MONDAY – JANUARY 30** – Country 1 Diary and Current Event


 * MONDAY – FEBRUARY 6** – Country 2 Diary and Current Event


 * MONDAY – FEBRUARY 13** – Country 3 Diary and Current Event


 * MONDAY – FEBRUARY 20** – Country 4 Diary and Current Event


 * MONDAY – FEBRUARY 27** – Works Cited

**NOTE: WE WILL HAVE __ACCESS__ TO THE LAB ONLY TWO OR THREE TIMES A WEEK, SO YOU WILL HAVE TO __WORK__ ON THIS __AT HOME__ AND DURING YOUR COMPUTER APPS TIME.**