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    Latin American Vocabulary Book

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    This document outlines a 3-part project to create an original Latin American vocabulary book. Part 1 requires students to define 20 vocabulary words. Part 2 tasks students with writing a story incorporating required countries, places, and people while including all vocabulary. Part 3 consists of assembling the story into a book with a cover, title, illustrations, underlined vocabulary, and creativity. The project will be completed over several classes, with parts and feedback due each day to build the final book, which is a major grade due on March 25, 2014.

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    This document outlines a 3-part project to create an original Latin American vocabulary book. Part 1 requires students to define 20 vocabulary words. Part 2 tasks students with writing a story incorporating required countries, places, and people while including all vocabulary. Part 3 consists of assembling the story into a book with a cover, title, illustrations, underlined vocabulary, and creativity. The project will be completed over several classes, with parts and feedback due each day to build the final book, which is a major grade due on March 25, 2014.

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    This document outlines a 3-part project to create an original Latin American vocabulary book. Part 1 requires students to define 20 vocabulary words. Part 2 tasks students with writing a story incorporating required countries, places, and people while including all vocabulary. Part 3 consists of assembling the story into a book with a cover, title, illustrations, underlined vocabulary, and creativity. The project will be completed over several classes, with parts and feedback due each day to build the final book, which is a major grade due on March 25, 2014.

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    Latin American Vocabulary Book

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    This document outlines a 3-part project to create an original Latin American vocabulary book. Part 1 requires students to define 20 vocabulary words. Part 2 tasks students with writing a story incorporating required countries, places, and people while including all vocabulary. Part 3 consists of assembling the story into a book with a cover, title, illustrations, underlined vocabulary, and creativity. The project will be completed over several classes, with parts and feedback due each day to build the final book, which is a major grade due on March 25, 2014.

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    LATIN AMERICAN VOCABULARY BOOK

    Your task is to produce an original Latin American book based on vocabulary. The project will be
    conducted in three parts and time will be given in class to work on it:

    Part 1 (30 points – 1.5 each):


    Define all of the following vocabulary and turn in for grading – all are found in the glossary unless noted:

    ___ Amazon Basin (p. 197) ___ indigenous ___ slash and burn farming
    ___ Amazon River (gazetteer) ___ infrastructure ___ Tenochtitlan (pg. 221)
    ___ canopy ___ maquiladoras ___ Tierra caliente
    ___ commercial farming ___ Panama Canal (p. 218) ___ Tierra fria
    ___ cottage industry ___ push-pull factors (yours) ___ Tierra templada
    ___ deforestation ___ reforestation

    ___ Amazon Rainforest - moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin in South America
    ___ Columbian Exchange – exchange of goods, livestock and disease between Europe and the Americas
    ___ squatter settlement – places outside of the city where the poor in Latin America settle

    Part 2 (30 points)


    Writing of the story –Students will write their story in class using the vocabulary above. This will be a rough
    draft and the following requirements must be met:

    ___ story is due at the end of class (10 points)


    ___All vocabulary must be included (10 points)
    ___Students must incorporate all of the following countries, places, and people in their stories (10 points –.9
    each):
    ___ Mexico ___ Haiti ___El Salvador ___ Cuba
    ___ Colombia ___ Brazil ___ Cancun ___ Incas
    ___Aztecs ___ Machu Picchu ___ Spaniards

    Part 3 (40 points)


    Students will construct and assemble a Latin American book. The book must contain the following parts:
    ___ Cover made of construction paper, poster board, or any sturdy material (5 points)
    ___ original title of book (5 points)
    ___ original story (5 points)
    ___ illustrations on each page (can be drawn or printed) (5 points)
    ___ each vocabulary word must be underlined in the story (5 points)
    ___ creativity (15 points)

    A part of the book is due each day at the end of class. You will lose 10 points each day it is late. If you are
    absent, you must complete the part you missed at the next class. This is an individual project. You will turn in
    this page along with each part of the book that you turn at the end of each class. Completed book is due
    Tuesday, March 25, 2014 !!! You will not have class time to finish the book on that days! It is a major
    grade!!!

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