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Age of Exploration

Explorer Presentation Project

With your partner, create a talk-show style Q&A about your explorer (one reporter, one explorer).

Your presentation should be around 5 minutes. If you want to make a movie over the weekend rather than presenting live in front of the class, you need to be sure you’ll be ready to present it at your presentation time.

You may script the Q&A any way you like, but you must cover these main points:

1. Background (childhood, country of origin, etc)

2. Country they sailed for (sometimes different from origin)

3. Why they are famous (what were their big accomplishments or discoveries?)

4. Difficulties and successes encountered on the voyage(s)

5. Overall character

Have fun, be creative. Points will be earned for being on-task today and Monday, for having good information in your presentation, good presentation skills, and creativity. This project is worth an individual participation grade of 10 points, and a partner grade of 25 points in Projects.

You don't need to memorize your presentation! You may want to get the script done today so you can practice on Monday in class.

Useful Links:

Best:

http://library.thinkquest.org/C001692/english/index.php3?subject=voyages

http://www.multcolib.org/homework/alphaexp.html

http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/slezak/exhotlist.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/

http://www.factmonster.com/biography/explorers.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1z.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook03.html