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=G.R.A.S.P.S= //( Feel free to copy and paste what you have on your wiki page for Dr. Grace for the GRASPS portion.)// =Understanding(s)= //(Copy and paste the big understanding(s) you have listed in your unit for Dr. Grace. What are the academic goals for the unit (which will also be the purpose of the WebQuest).)//
 * Goal || Students understand how cultural experience influences a literary work. ||
 * Role || Students are travel agents. ||
 * Audience || Travelocity is eager to know the best informative vacation destinations in the USA. ||
 * Setting || Agents need to advertise a destination based on a literary text's cultural presence. ||
 * Presentation || Students will create a multimedia glogster about the regional work's cultural presence. ||
 * Standards || (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):Product: Regional Content (20%), Integration of Multimedia (20%), Regional Content (20%), Economy (15%), Creativity (15%), and Conventions (10%)Presentation: Content Literacy (20%), Composure (20%), Organization (20%), Enthusiasm (15%), Preparedness (15%), and Conventions (10%). ||

•complex characters interact with other characters and develop as the plot advances developing motivation, complexity, and theme. •authors' different and divergent cultural experiences are reflected within their literary works. •differing artistic mediums reveal unique aspects of culture and characters' complexity.

=Introduction= //(Set the stage, give us any background info that we might need to know (but just a hint), this is your HOOK. Provide a segue to the Task . . . make your reader want to click to the next section. There should be nothing that sounds like school work in this section. Don't give away what's going to happen in the Task.)//

Realism as a literary movement brought an authenticity and rawness to literature that had not been precedent in American culture. This authenticity and rawness evolved Naturalist sentiment and Regionalism as a genre as well. Regionalist literature faces the challenging of reflecting both universal themes as well as themes characteristic to specific area. Through a variety of texts from different geographical and cultural regions in the United States, students will develop understanding of literature's characters, themes, and devices as a result of authors' own cultural experiences. This transcendence is applicable to the impact of differing artistic mediums as well. In an evolving and emerging era of globalization and cultural integration, comprehension of culture's influences on society and individuals is pertinent to participating in global citizenry. Part of global citizenry includes all the chance to travel to wherever you like! Online travel agencies like Orbitz, Travelocity, and Kyak are leading the market in bringing global citizens to these new worlds using massive potential of the interweb! With the steady decline of paper and media advertisement and the growth of online advertisement Travelocity is looking for some agents to create some new online advertisement that brings all the realness and rawness of the vacation destinations right onto their screen! =Task= //(Tell the story of the Role, Audience, Setting, and Presentation. Be a story teller. Save any classroom-specific information for the Process. Build the scenario and stay in character. You can reference the Introduction but try not to duplicate the information that's in the Introduction.)//

Travelocity has a “novel” idea for marketing regional destination packages within the United States. They want to incorporate the literary masterpieces of places to characterize the cultural experience. You have been selected for your understanding of marketing and traveling as a top travel agent to create the pitch for selling a location in the US. Their only stipulation requires that it needs to be multimedia and digital in order to advertise it on their website. The corporate level is expecting dialect, setting, themes, characters, etc. to reflect the destination from the perspective of one of the literary works via video, photos, audio recordings, etc. The digital presentation should also encourage potential vacationers to read the book for tips on handling the locals. No gnomes necessary. =Conclusion= //(Tie everything the participants have done back to the Goal. Why did they go through all of this? Tie the scenario to the real world. Remind them of the "Big Idea" that they were supposed to gain from this, just in case they didn't make the connection on their own. Don't get preachy. If you ask a question here, it has to be rhetorical. No work or assignments should be included. Short is good.)//

Well, congratulations! Aren’t you just climbing the corporate ladder? The Execs are impressed. You have accurately created a cultural representation of the region and have everyone reading your story! Now it is time to unbutton your shirt and loosen your tie, rock that office chair back, and kick up your feet! The boss is impressed. Who knows? Perhaps, you might get some paid vacation time to go try out that vacation destination to give some personal reflection. Be warned though, they might send the gnome with you for some photo ops.