Traveling Tennessee A Virtual Vacation

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Traveling TennesseeA Virtual Vacation

• Introduction
• Pretend you are traveling the great state of
  Tennessee. You will find a city in each Grand
  Division to visit. Then, youll look on the
  Greyhound bus schedule to find out how much it
  will cost to travel there and how long it will
  take. Youll also research attractions in your
  city and write a paragraph that would convince
  your parents to take you there.

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Traveling Tennessee

• You have to visit one city in each Grand Division
  of Tennessee.
• Click to find a city in West Tennessee.
• West
• Pull up the TravelBlog to tell me the city you
  want to visit.

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• You have to visit one city in each Grand Division
  of Tennessee.
• Click to find a city in Middle Tennessee.
• Middle
• Tell me the city you want to visit on your Travel
  Blog.

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• You have to visit one city in each Grand Division
  of Tennessee.
• Click to find a city in East Tennessee.
• East
• Write the city you want to visit on your
  TravelBlog.

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• Check the Greyhound Bus Schedules to your three
  cities.
• You will have three days in each city. Pretend
  your departure (leaving) date is exactly two
  weeks from today to travel to the first city.

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• In your TravelBlog type the prices for travel to
  each city. Then enter the total for all three
  legs (parts) of your journey.
• Then, type the departure and arrival times for
  each part of your trip. Figure out how long each
  leg will last. Calculate how much time you will
  spend on the bus altogether.

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Do Trips Have Legs?

• When people are traveling to different places
  during the same trip, they call each part of the
  journey a leg.
• Pretend youre taking a trip to the mall. If you
  were going to Chuck E. Cheese, Macys and JC
  Penneys, the first leg of your journey is from
  home to Chuck E. Cheese. The second leg is from
  Chuck E. Cheese to Macys. The third and last
  leg of your journey would be from Macys to home.

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• Research each city to find attractions youd like
  to visit. Put the link for the attractions in
  your TravelBlog. Then write three reasons for
  each attraction that would convince your mother
  that it would be educational for you.

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• After writing your three reasons for each,
  compose a paragraph using the reasons to talk
  your Mom into letting you go to each one.

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Whats a Paragraph?

• A paragraph is three or more sentences that are
  all talking about the same thing.
• For each paragraph, you need to make sure that
  every sentence is about how you can learn from
  visiting that attraction.
• You also need a sentence at the beginning that
  tells what the paragraph is about (a main idea).
  For example These are the three reasons that
  visiting The Grand Old Opry (or whatever youve
  chosen) will be educational for me.

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• When youre through, be ready to present your
  TravelBlog to the class.
• Click on the link below to find out how youll be
  graded on your project.
• Traveling Tennessee Rubric

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Resources

• Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media,
  http//office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?l
  cen-us
• Tennessee Tourism Department, http//www.tnvacatio
  n.com/
• Greyhound Bus Lines, http//www.greyhound.com