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=G.R.A.S.P.S= //( Feel free to copy and paste what you have on your wiki page for Dr. Grace for the GRASPS portion.)// =Understanding(s)= //(Copy and paste the big understanding(s) you have listed in your unit for Dr. Grace. What are the academic goals for the unit (which will also be the purpose of the WebQuest).)//
 * Goal || The goal is to change other people's perspectives on a specific culture. ||
 * Role || Your job is to present a Glog to AAA's travel agency for a new visual resource for their website. ||
 * Audience || You need to convince AAA you have the most native view of the culture you are placed in. ||
 * Setting || The context you find yourself in is presenting your Glog as an interactive example of your perspective on your chosen culture to AAA. ||
 * Presentation || You will create a Glog or an interactive poster to convince AAA of your understanding of your chosen culture. ||
 * Standards || ** Product: ** Requirements 20%, Sources 20%, Organization 10%, Originality 10%, Appearance 10%, Content 20%.
 * Presentation: ** Content 25%, Preparedness 20%, Vocabulary Usage 10%, Engagement 15%, Presentation Skills 10%, Comfort with Technology 20%. ||

Students will understand that: •multiple sources give a better understanding of culture as a whole. •different media sources provide a concrete base of understanding what culture is. •linguistic skills as a base can help build collegiate skills when studying literature.

=Introduction= //(Set the stage, give us any background info that we might need to know (but just a hint), this is your HOOK. Provide a segue to the Task . . . make your reader want to click to the next section. There should be nothing that sounds like school work in this section. Don't give away what's going to happen in the Task.)//

While sleeping one night, after reading a piece of cultural literature, (//A Thousand Splendid Suns //, //Love Medicine, // or //Woman Hollering Creek //), you dream that you are now part of the modern culture from the piece you fell asleep to. It is soon after you realize that you are in this setting and you also realize you aren’t actually asleep. =Task= //(Tell the story of the Role, Audience, Setting, and Presentation. Be a story teller. Save any classroom-specific information for the Process. Build the scenario and stay in character. You can reference the Introduction but try not to duplicate the information that's in the Introduction.)//

AAA Northern New England, a travel agency from Augusta, Maine, has placed you here to fully immerse yourself into the culture around you, convincing people that you are a native. While all of this is happening you should be collecting information on a wikispace, working to define this culture, and how it is similar and different to other cultures. Defining culture is difficult to do, so using specific examples is required to get a clear picture. You will then present this information to AAA Northern New England, who is seeking information about how to further prepare their clients for visiting other cultures, including your own. In order to present this information you will gather resources from online sources, like the wikispace you’ve been creating, and turn the information into a Glog. Your goal is to not only convince the natives that you are one of them, but also to convince AAA that you have the best understanding of your culture. Your presentation will be put up against a variety of others, all competing to have their Glog posted on AAA’s website in the travel portion. Not only will this presentation benefit the clients of AAA, but it will also help natives of your culture, so that tourists are more conscious of your customs. Good luck!

=Conclusion= //(Tie everything the participants have done back to the Goal. Why did they go through all of this? Tie the scenario to the real world. Remind them of the "Big Idea" that they were supposed to gain from this, just in case they didn't make the connection on their own. Don't get preachy. If you ask a question here, it has to be rhetorical. No work or assignments should be included. Short is good.)//

First of all, congratulations on completing your task! These multimedia presentations are hard to make, and I know that AAA is extremely impressed. Secondly, now that you have completed your task I encourage you to use this understanding of culture to connect to the world around you, and remember that any resources you need are just at your finger tips. Thirdly, from creating this multimedia presentations I expect that you have a better understanding of how to find media, how to analyze it's effectiveness and how to present it effectively to even an uninformed audience. These tools, which you all have clearly mastered, may benefit you in many ways later on in life when it comes to presenting, or just using media to better understand the world around you.

Awesome job to everyone!