Introduction:
You are a reporter for the Daily Gazette, Vancouver's largest travel
newspaper. However; you are not just any old Gazette reporter, you
are a member of a unique reporting team of four. You and three other
reporters at the Gazette have the magical ability to travel through
time to different places in the world during different periods of
history. Your job is to work as a team to research and write articles
for the latest issue of the newspaper, which will look specifically at
life in Ancient China.
Each of you have five tasks ahead. I am confident that each of you will complete these tasks successfully
Task Highlights:
1) Choose an Era in Ancient Chinese history to travel to and report on
2) Create a travel log and use it to record your findings.
3) Report back to your fellow reporters to share your findings.
4) Choose a writing specialty. Design a travel log and again use it to record your findings. Follow the time travelling links set out for you to research and observe that area of Chinese Culture or History.
5) Write an article about your specialty area findings for the Daily Gazette's Ancient China Issue.
Task #1
1) Each of you must choose one of the following Ancient Chinese Eras to travel to and report on. As a group there must be one person travelling to each Ancient Chinese destination.
2) Once each of you have been assigned to an Era each of you will click on that Era and will be connected to your specific task instructions.
Choose your Era Destination:
Shang Dynasty
Chou or Zhou Dynasty
Ch'in or Quin Dynasty
Han Dynasty
Task #2 Travel log questions
Answer the following questions about the dynasty:
Questions:
Task #4 Design your travel log that address all areas.
Task #5 Write your article for the news paper.
You are a reporter for the Daily Gazette, Vancouver's largest travel
newspaper. However; you are not just any old Gazette reporter, you
are a member of a unique reporting team of four. You and three other
reporters at the Gazette have the magical ability to travel through
time to different places in the world during different periods of
history. Your job is to work as a team to research and write articles
for the latest issue of the newspaper, which will look specifically at
life in Ancient China.
Each of you have five tasks ahead. I am confident that each of you will complete these tasks successfully
Task Highlights:
1) Choose an Era in Ancient Chinese history to travel to and report on
2) Create a travel log and use it to record your findings.
3) Report back to your fellow reporters to share your findings.
4) Choose a writing specialty. Design a travel log and again use it to record your findings. Follow the time travelling links set out for you to research and observe that area of Chinese Culture or History.
5) Write an article about your specialty area findings for the Daily Gazette's Ancient China Issue.
Task #1
1) Each of you must choose one of the following Ancient Chinese Eras to travel to and report on. As a group there must be one person travelling to each Ancient Chinese destination.
2) Once each of you have been assigned to an Era each of you will click on that Era and will be connected to your specific task instructions.
Choose your Era Destination:
Shang Dynasty
Chou or Zhou Dynasty
Ch'in or Quin Dynasty
Han Dynasty
Task #2 Travel log questions
Answer the following questions about the dynasty:
Questions:
- What types of places did they live in?
- During what years did this Era occur?
- What, if any subsistance strategies did they use (Ex: farming, hunting, etc.)?
- Did they have a leader? Who was their leader? What were they like as a leader?
- Did they follow a religion or certain philosophy?
- Would you like to live during Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, or the Han Dynasty in Ancient China? Why or why not?
Task #4 Design your travel log that address all areas.
Task #5 Write your article for the news paper.