Travel+Guide

Directions:Marco Polo's story served as travel guide to other travelers. Marco gave travelers important advice and warnings. You will create a travel guide to your neighborhood. Follow the steps below to complete the activity.

Step 1: Read the sample travel guide below Step 2: Write a travel guide to your neighborhood. You guide must include four steps, at least one suggestion of where to stop on the way and at least one warning. Step 3: Email your work or you can draw a poster showing your travel guide on chart paper.


 * A TRAVEL GUIDE TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD**

Listen closely travelers who wish to attempt to reach my distant neighborhood.

1 Your first step is to travel on the dreaded Q train. This train may prove difficult to travelers because it is slow and often breaks down. Quite often the train will stop and leave you stranded in some far and distant land. This step of your journey requires patience for you will need to wait many minutes for the train even to arrive. Beware of any seats on the train that are wet!

2 If you have made it this far, the next obstacle you will face will be the train station. The station is old and falling apart. If your reach the station at 5 you must be sure to only take the back stairway. All other stairways will be crowded and you will be pushed along with the crowd. As your reach the bottom, beware of the crazy man who likes to curse and yell at people. If you venture too close to him he will harass you to no end!

3 At this point in your voyage you may be in need of sustenance. I would recommend the corner store. They are well stocked and will provide you with the supplies you need in exchange for very little money. There are other options as well. If you speak Russian there is a gigantic supermarket where you can find all manner of food. However, if you do not speak the language then it will be difficult for you to read the signs. Avoid the Chinese restaurant on the corner. On one occasion I sampled their food and became very sick. Perhaps it was the work of demons!

4. You are now almost at your objective. Once you reach my block you must proceed with caution. In order to reach your goal you must cross a dangerous street. There is a stop sign but cars do not obey it. I have seen many travelers run down by speeding cars. Once you have crossed the street one final obstacle stands in your way, pigeons! I have been hit by pigeon bombs on more than one occasion. If you are hit you will need to clean the foul stuff off immediately.