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Should I Stay or Should I Go?

1.  Choose a country you would like to visit.  Find out details about the country by visiting the following sites:

Culturegrams (Username - martwest, password - library)

World Travel Guide  (Can be used at school only)

Lands and Peoples

Fodor's Travel Guide

The Teaching and Learning Center (Username - WEST)

The Internet Public Library listing of online newspapers from around the world

2.  Complete this Notes Page for each site you visit.     Get Adobe Reader

3.  Review your notes.  Have you listed more positives or more negatives?

4.  Organize your notes into a persuasive essay.  If you have listed more positive reasons to visit, your essay will argue that you should visit that country.  If your notes list more negative reasons to visit, you will argue that you should NOT visit.