ASSIGNMENT  TOPICS  SEARCHING THE SHELVES  LEARNING RESEARCH HUB  NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES  INTERNET SITES

The Department of Tourism of Spain  has contracted with each of your ad agencies to "sell" Spain.  The team or individual who produces the best presentation of one province will win the account to advertise for all of Spain.  You and your team will win a bonus if your agency is awarded the account!

1.  Select a province of Spain

• Draw a flag of the province, and find its coat of arms.
• Find out what language, besides Spanish, is spoken there.  Find an example of that other language.
• Your presentation should convince the class that your province is the best one in Spain.

• Prepare it for the class. Be sure to prepare enough so that all the class members get a taste. Each group must provide the necessary plates, cups, plasticware, napkins.

• Write the complete name, and practice pronouncing it correctly.
• Prepare a short biography of the artist.
• Explain the significant historical events which occurred during the artist's lifetime.
• Show pictures of at least five of the artist's paintings.
• Select one painting to research more fully.  Discover what the artist wished to convey to the viewer.

• Pick another painting by the artist, and make up your own story about it.
• Pick a famous person Spain.  Prepare a short biography, and find a picture of the

person.  Include information about why this person is famous.

All computers in the library can access the Media Center's Electronic Card Catalog.  It is located on the Global Access Menu under Media Center Programs.  The Catalog identifies all the holdings (books, etc.) of the WJHS Media Center.  It is also possible to search for materials on the MCPS Library Catalog Online.  Be sure to set the limits of your search to Walter Johnson HS only.

  For this assignment, the following call numbers will be helpful:

914.6  (Travel guides)      946 (History)

Encyclopaedia Britannica - internet access (school use only)
Encyclopaedia Americana - internet access (school use only)
GaleNet Resources: - internet access*
     Select:  DISCovering Biography
               DISCovering World History
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - internet access (school use only)
World Book Online - internet access (school use only)*

*  Ask Media Center Staff for Password

Locate a topical news article using ProQuest Direct 2.0 or SIRS Knowledge Source.  

ProQuest Direct 2.0  (For home use, get password from media center staff.)

ProQuest Direct is an information service providing online access to one of the most extensive collections of published material in the world.  With ProQuest Direct, you can search for information in thousands of different journals, periodicals, dissertations, newspapers, and magazines in UMI's vast archives.

SIRS Knowledge Source is an online research service for all SIRS reference databases:  SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, and SIRS Renaissance. It provides thousands of full-text articles on social, scientific, health, historic, arts, humanities, business, economic, political and global issues.  Articles are carefully selected from around 1500 newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications.  Graphics, including charts, maps, diagrams, and drawings, are available for many of the articles.

Use the following Internet Sites for information on this project.  If you discover other useful Internet sites complete the  Internet Checklist (copies available in Media Center) to authenticate the site.

General Information Links:

MCPS Spanish Links
Ethnologue:  Spain
Cyber Sp@in
WWW Spain
WWW Spain: History
Spain: History
Yahoo! Spain
Discover Spain/Tourist Office of Spain
All About Spain
The Spain Images Archive     (Collection of pictures of Spain)
Virtual Library:  Museums in Spain
World Heritage Sites in Spain
Web Sites in or about Spain
Alphabetical Spain
Library of Congress:  Spain--A Country Study
tuSpain--the Web Magazine for Spain!
Welcome to "Si Spain"
Background Note:  Spain
Destination Spain

Languages of Spain
Languages Spoken in Spain
Languages in Spain

Artists:         

Dali:

Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali

Francisco Goya
Francisco (Jose) de Goya (Luciente)

CFGA - El Greco
Web Museum:  El Greco

Joan Miro
Miro

Web Museum:  Murillo

Web Museum:  Picasso and Cubism
Picasso - ON-LINE PICASSO PROJECT

Velazquez
Web Museum:  Velazquez