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Optional Project - 100 optional quiz points possible
In this activity you are to design a travel guide/brochure for a Roman tour of Italy. Your creativity for your brochure is limitless, but the only guideline is that your brochure must be a tri-folded document. You may use standard 8.5" x 11" printer paper, but construction paper might be a better choice for stability. You may use any kind of materials: colored pencils, ink, paint, etc. Images must be in your brochure (if you images from the internet, credit your sources on a separate sheet of paper please). If you or your school has access to a color printer, you can find images on the internet and print them out for your project or you can find images in magazines, or you can draw them yourself! Presentation counts; treat your brochure as an advertisement. You are trying to convince a potential traveller to purchase your tour!
The outside cover of your brochure is the title cover. Your proposed tour/journey must contain at least four stops/areas of interest. You can put one stop in each section of the inside of the brochure if you wish. For each stop, you must have a map with the destination marked (draw or find an image of your map) and you must have an image or graphic representing the stop (find a photograph or draw it yourself). Also, each stop must have a short paragraph (just a few sentences describing the area, IN LATIN ONLY. Do not use English anywhere on your brochure or it will not be accepted!
On the back of your brochure, include travel, booking information, and a schedule. Here you must put prices for your tour, the dates and length of the trip, and you may also put anything else which you feel is appropriate: hotels (diversoria cauponaeque), restaurant recommendations (commendare - to recommend; commendatio, -onis, f. - recommendation), etc. Also include the name and address of your travel agency. You don't need to be so specific about the address. For example you might say, "Locati sumus commodo Romae in Via Appia." ("We are conveniently located in Rome on the Appian Way.") Don't forget that cities and small islands use the locative! Also include on the back at least two quotes from customers (e.g., L. Anneus Seneca dixit, "Hoc iter est multo optimum in toto orbe terrarum!" - "This is the best tour in the world by far!")
Grammar and spelling is important. You don't have to try to use incredibly complex sentences, but make sure you are observing the rules of Latin grammar which any good Latin III student should be well aware of by now. Remember that your brochure must be in Latin only!
Your travel brochure must be set in the ancient world:
Your creativity is limitless in this project. Please put a maximum effort into it if you decide to do this project. If your project shows genuine effort, you can easily earn full points. If you submit a project which shows little effort, then you will receive only partial credit, which can actually lower your grade. (Go back to the optional projects homepage for submission information and scoring).
Useful Vocabulary - Use this vocabulary list found in the Verba section of the Latin III site. If there is an English word for which you don't know the Latin, and it is not included in the list, then send a message to KET and we will help you find the correct word.
If you can't think of a particular Latin word, use an English-to-Latin dictionary. Alternately, Perseus has online English-to-Latin dictionary.
Use the grading rubric below as a checklist for your brochure. Bona Fortuna vobis!
| Criterion | Possible Points |
Brochure Cover
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Content (inside)
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Back page
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General
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| Total | 100 optional quiz points |
N.B. Must have some historically significant events and names of people involved. E.G.:
Hic Tiberius a Sequano est servatus in hoc antro cenatorio. Sequanus se iecit supra imperatorem, quod magnum saxum ex tecto cadebat.
(Here Tiberius was saved by Sequanus in this dining-grotto. Sequanus threw himself on the emperor, because a large rock was falling from the ceiling.)
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