About Your Commemorative Issue

You’re a Rock Star!

Your group has recently completed a short tour of America and your manager wants to cash in by selling a Commemorative USA Tour Magazine. Your job is to put together pictures, maps and diagrams of the tour. Anything your fans might find interesting (ticket stubs, etc...) should be included.

Since this project is partly funded by United States Tourism, you have to be sure to include information about each concert date - one for each week. (I’m looking for at least 5 all together.) Remember, not every city in America has giant stadiums, so some of your venues could have been at festivals or more out-of-the-way places.

About your commemorative issue:

This has to be exciting to sell. Make it visually appealing. Make it something you want to keep because then it is also something you would be willing to buy.

•  Come up with a band name and a tour name.

•  Choose a record label and a tour sponsor (Pepsi, etc)

•  A list of concert dates, cities and venue names

•  Use artifacts to sell your issue – ticket stubs, inside stories, top ten lists, etc.,

•  Use pictures, labels, t-shirts, postcards, and emails to make it more interesting

You don’t need to purchase anything for this project. It is all about facts, story and creative appeal!

About site-seeing in each location/town/city:

This commemorative issue will be sold outside of America too, so be sure to include a lot of information about each city. You aren’t talking to locals, so you’ll have to provide maps, diagrams, postcards and pictures. A lot of people think America all looks like New York City; show them how much more there is to this country--by telling them how we live, where we live and how we have adapted to the environment.

For each city, you must touch on the 5 themes of Geography to help you describe the city/town/province or territory.

M -movement

R -region

H E –human and environmental interaction

L -location

P –place

You’re a Rock Star! Project Rubric

This is the rubric that will be used to grade your project. You should strive to get all 3’s and 4’s by the time your project is complete. Before you turn in your project, you must grade yourself by analyzing your project and circling which score you think you deserve in each category. Remember that you will need to have evidence to support your score (meaning, don’t put all 4’s if you have not met the requirements in that category).

4--Exceeds
Standard / 3—Meets
Standard / 2—Nearly Meets Standard / 1—Does Not
Meet Standard
Artifacts
(images, maps,
tickets, post
cards, etc.) / Large, clear,
engaging artifacts enhance the
content. / Many large,
clear
artifacts used
to enhance
content. / Some artifacts
are included and
some enhance
content. / Artifacts do
not relate
to content.
5 Themes of
Geography / All five themes
of geography are
defined and
explained in the
cross-America
tour guide. This
reflects a
thorough
understanding. / All five themes
of geography are
defined and
explained in the
cross-America
tour guide. / Many of
the themes
of geography are
included and
discussed. / Some of the
five themes
of geography are
defined and
explained in the
cross-America
tour guide. At
times,
definitions are
confusing or
are absent.
Tour-guide as
storytelling
technique / Builds,
transitions, and
provides
information that
enhances
content.
Audience
enjoyment is
high. / Builds,
transitions, and
provides
information that
is accurate.
Audience
enjoyment is
good. / Builds,
transitions, and
information that
distracts from
message.
Audience
enjoyment is
vague. / Builds,
transitions, and
information is
confusing and
overwhelming.
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back)
4 / 3 / 2 / 1
Tour Guide as
an instrument
to sell
magazines / Graphics, artifacts
and information
is organized with
visual appeal. It is
easy to read. Facts
are seamlessly
interwoven with
story.
Audience appeal
is high; this issue
will sell. / Graphics, artifacts
and information
is organized with
visual appeal. It is
easy to read.
Audience appeal
is high; this issue
will sell. / Graphics, artifacts
and information
is beginning to be organized with
visual appeal. It is
easy to read at
times but there
are parts that are
confusing. / Graphics,
artifacts and
information is
not organized
with visual
appeal. It is
not easy to
read because
it is vague
or confusing.
Consistency / Each page works
together logically
and different
sections are
clearly
distinguishable. / Most parts work
together
logically;
different sections
clearly
distinguishable. / A few parts work
together
logically;
different sections
not clearly
distinguishable. / No overall
theme for the
presentation.
Grammar &
Editing / Spelling,
punctuation, and
grammar are
correct, with less
than two errors
in total. / Spelling,
punctuation, and
grammar are
mostly
correct, with three
to five errors
in total. / Spelling,
punctuation, and
grammar are
somewhat
correct, with six
to seven errors
in total. / Spelling,
punctuation, and
grammar are
distracting,
with eight or
more errors
in total.

Teacher comments: ______