Electronic Book or Brochure

1. Electronic Book or Brochure • Objective: Today we are using main idea and details about a place we want to visit with digital technologies and text features to create an electronic book or brochure.

2. Electronic Book or Brochure • BENCHMARK: LA 6.2.2.2 Text Features: use information from text to main idea, details, and logical order. BENCHMARK: LA 6.1.7.2 Author’s Purpose: analyze the author’s purpose for the electronic brochure or book.

3. Persuade your audience to visit your dream vacation by making a brochure Petals Your brochure will focus on text features

4. Let’s take a look at a place I would like to go and why I think you would enjoy it? Location /Geography / Climate / Population

5. Discuss your dream spots and its Culture • Food • Religion • Education preferences • Popular hobbies • Popular sports

6. The travel brochure must include: • Text features referencing the vacation of your choice. • For example: Maps, Captions, Bold Print, Illustrations, Pictures, Bullets, etc.

7. Brochure Template • Title for cover & table of contents • __________________________________________________________ • Text for the first page • Describe the location you chose. (For example, where is this place located? What type of weather does this location have? What are the physical elements of your location—is it near a lake, near mountains? Why did you choose this location?) • ________________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________________ • Text for page 2 • Describe the attractions that might bring tourists to this location. (For example, what types of recreation are available? What can you do for fun? Are there any historical places located here?) • ________________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________________ • Text for page 3 • List your reference resources here / and glossary. • ________________________________________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________________________________________

8. Grade Sheet or we can do a Rubric • ______Map of the country • ______Culture • ______Food • ______History • ______Education • ______Hobbies • ______Sports • ______Religion • Text Features • ______Table of Contents • ______Title • ______Bold print • ______Pictures • ______illustrations • ______Captions • ______Glossary • ______ References

9. Steps to start your Electronic Book / Brochure

10. Step 1 • Search your topic using web page searches • Google • Yahoo • Info should be on Culture, climate, education, demographics (religion, health, languages) . • Images should be searched last

11. Step 1 continued • Place of choice is your topic to be searched • Eg. Costa Rica is the place I want you to see • Open up a Microsoft word documents ( go to start, all programs, Microsoft then click Microsoft Word documents).

12. Step 2 • Select desired information about your topic. • Copy and paste information found in a word document , so it can be transferred in to your actual project.

13. Step 3 • Get images and text features to relate to your document • Culture (food, sports, hobbies, cloths) , climate, education, demographics (religion, health, languages) • I will also include a few examples of the electronic books.