Travel Blog Assignment

Assignment:
You are a travel writer blogging for nationalgeographic.com.  Imagine you are on the trip you planned to your Asia country and you come in contact with a specific rule of etiquette.  Make up a scenario that involves this rule of etiquette and explain how you or the people around you responded to it.

You must do the following:

1. Describe the rule very clearly and explain how you or other foreigners on your trip responded  (appropriately, inappropriately, embarrassingly, funnily, whatever…). 
2. Write in the first person, and use past tense.  You may use contractions
3. Describe the landscape or building where the scenario takes place.  Use show-not-telling writing (appeal to one or more of the five senses…remember how the writer of the article we read appealed to the sense of hearing?).  Use your notes from Geography.
4. Pay attention to the connotation of the words you choose. 
5. Make an observation about how this rule of etiquette is different or similar to a tradition or rule of etiquette in our culture.
6. This is not a short story.  It is merely an observation that includes description.  It should sound like the one we modeled in class.
7. Honors:  you must use two similes.  College prep, you may use similes if you like, but it is not a requirement.
8. College Prep must write 150-200.  Honors must write 250-300 words.