Task

TASKS Your club teacher is very excited that you will be participating. She provides you with the trip handbook and list of rules to be signed by you and your parents and brought back. She thinks this will be an excellent opportunity not only for you to practice your Spanish but to learn about Spanish history, culture, traditions, geography, and most enjoyably the gastronomy. She hands you a second packet of papers. It is an ongoing assignment that needs to be completed between now and the time you come back from the trip. You gulp. You didn't realize that there would be a homework assignment included. Oh well, too late now.

1. You take a look at the first sheet. It asks you to "write an essay describing your expectations for the trip." Hmmm, will "sangria, flamenco and bullfighting" suffice for an essay? You decide to take it home and think it over.

2. The second assignment is a bit more complex. "You are expected to make 3 journal entries during your trip. Each entry is to include a city or town you visited, three important sites you saw there, some special detail about each one, and why they are considered important. You will also take note of any regional or traditional food that you ate as well as any unique customs or festivals that took place. Finally, you are to include your overall impression about the city/town." Ok, this may be a bit time consuming, but it won't be "hard."

3. This one looks easy. "After the trip write a follow-up essay about what your expectations had been for this trip and if they had been met. You will write about what your favorite part of this trip was and why. You will include a personal response about if you would someday like to return and explore more of Spain or if after this trip you have seen enough." This shouldn't be hard, but you figure you better spend a little more time developing your expectations essay and "sangria, flamenco and bullfighting" is definitely not going to suffice.

4. EXTRA CREDIT: You are supposed to "write a short essay that highlights unifying themes of places you have visited. You are supposed to mention artistic, historical, and cultural themes that have repeatedly shown up along the trip." Ok, that doesn't sound like much fun, but maybe if I need the extra credit, I'll try it. NEXT