Over the past two weeks, the kids have been working on taking notes and writing rough draft paragraphs for their current writing project, a national park "travel guide."  Beginning today, I will be assigning the final draft paragraphs, one piece at a time.  The final drafts may be typed or neatly handwritten.  I will guide them through the title page, table of contents and bibliography in class. They have also been working on the park map which they drawing.  The chart or graph can be printed off an online source.  I will go over this in class as well.

I have included below information and guidelines for the project.

Homework

Read: 30 min.
National Park:  Write the final draft of the "Park History" paragraph.
Social Studies: Study for Friday's test.  Use your study guide!

 

National Park Travel Guide - Guidelines

            For this writing activity you will learn about a national park of your choice.  Using a variety of research sources, you will take notes, organize your information, write a rough draft and after careful editing, write a final draft of your "book."

You will need to find information in each of the following areas:

*Park history (when it was established, who was responsible, original inhabitants)

    

*General statistics (location, size, lengths of rivers, heights of mountains, etc.)

*Climate (temperatures, precipitation, etc.)

*Wildlife

*Plant life

*Places of interest

*Popular activities (things that visitors can do there)

*Other interesting facts (things that are unique to this park)

*Conservation efforts

You will also include the following:

*An illustrated cover

*A table of contents

*A title page containing the name of the park, your name, your grade, and date

*A map showing where your park is located (I will help you with this)

*A chart, graph, or diagram containing information about a particular aspect of the park

*A glossary of at least 5 words and their meanings

*A bibliography (you should have at least 4 sources)

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National Park Travel Guide – Final Draft

1.  The final draft of your travel guide may be handwritten or typed on one side of the paper only.

2. Your paragraphs should be well developed (minimum 6 - 8 sentences), containing dates, measurements, distances, and descriptive examples where appropriate.

3. Your writing must be neat and have correct grammar, punctuation and spelling.

4. Your artwork (cover, map, and chart, graph, or diagram) should show best effort quality.

5.  We will assemble your completed final draft pages in class.