Ciao!  Welcome to Italy!  In 48 hours, you will be taking President Bush on a tour of Italy.  Before becoming his tour guide, you will need to complete 4 tasks to become more familiar with Italy and all it has to offer.  Enjoy your trip!
 
 

Because you have all of Italy to tour, you will need 3 other assistant tour guides.  In groups of 4, each person will take on one of the following roles:

• Tour guide 1: You will be responsible for learning to count to 10 and recite the days of the week.  You will then teach this to President Bush.
• Tour guide 2: You will be responsible for comparing and contrasting Italian customs and traditions to those of the United States.
• Tour guide 3: You will be responsible for researching Italy's finest restaurants and choosing a recipe to give to President  Bush to take back to the White House. 
• Tour guide 4: You will be responsible for describing Italy's geographical regions.

Tour Guide 1:
      You will prepare and design materials to teach President Bush the days of week and to count to 10 in Italian.  Your materials could include:

• *Flash cards 
• *Games
• *Rhymes 
• *Songs 
• *Any creative idea you have!

Tour Guide 2:
     You will  prepare and design materials to teach President Bush how Italian customs and traditions are similar and different from those of the United States.  Your materials could include:

• *A classificatory paper
• *T - chart
• *Venn diagram
• *Powerpoint presentation
• *Picture brochure or portfolio
• *Any creative idea you have!

Tour Guide 3:
     You will prepare and design materials to teach Present Bush about Italian cuisine.  You will need to have one Italian recipe that can be taken back to the White House.  Your materials could include:

• *Sample menus from Italian restaurants
• *A how-to paper explaining how to make the recipe
• *Pictures or drawing of various Italian foods
• *Choose a specific Italian food to research and present
• *Any creative idea you have!

Cooking Tidbits  Wheat Pastas  Saffron Pastas   Special Pasta Origin of Pizza  History of Pizza

Crops  Food of Sicily  Long cut Pasta  Egg Pasta  Short cut Pasta

Tour Guide 4:
     You will prepare and design materials to teach President Bush about the geographical regions of Italy.  Your materials could include:

• *Draw and label a map of Italy
• *Build a model of the various landforms found in Italy
• *Write a description paper of Italy's regions
• *Create a travel brochure of Italy

Maps  Geography of Italy  Land of Italy  Italy  Information on Italy		Around the World  Stromboli  Mt. Vesuvius  World Geography

Individual and group grades will be given based on the following: 

	Needs Improvement 70	Satisfactory   80	Good   90	Excellent   100	Score
Tour Guide #1	No teaching materials	1 teaching item presented	2 - 3 teaching items presented	Full lesson plan with 4 or more teaching items
Tour Guide #2	No visual materials presented	1 visual item presented	1 well elaborated or 2 - 3 items for presentation	2 or more well elaborated items for presentation 1 item must be the classificatory paper
Tour Guide #3	No visual materials presented	1 visual item presented must also include recipe	1 well elaborated or 2 -3 items presented must also include recipe	2 or more well elaborated items for presentation including recipe 1 item must be how-to paper
Tour Guide #4	No visual presentation	1 visual item for presentation	2 visual items for presentation	3 or more visual items for presentation
Group Grade	Only 1 tour guide presented oral/visual presentation	2 tour guides presented oral/visual presentations	3 tour guides presented oral/visual presentations	All tour guides presented oral/visual presentations

Fulfilling your task as a tour guide has given you the opportunity to learn about Italy.  As a reward for your success, you may pack your bags and get ready to relax and tour your favorite spot with President Bush in Italy - which is just a click away!

Clip art: Barry's Clip art