Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Our (Pretend) Family Vacation

This year Taylor's Language Arts/Social Studies teacher has assigned one project after another. For the most part, she has done them on her own and hasn't had to spend too much time, but this one takes the cake.
In Language Arts, they are studying public documents so the assignment was to put together a vacation for a family of 4 that live outside of California. They need to travel to California, visit an amusement park, take a college tour and document all of it...all for under $5000.
Taylor thought the easiest way to present it would be in scrapbook form.
She first had to get time-off requests for the parents for the four days they would miss work.
Then map out the drive from our pretend house in Arizona to the airport and book a fake reservation at a parking lot.
She (almost) booked a Southwest itinerary for airfare, hotel and rental car in San Diego...
and mapped out directions from the SD airport to her hotel.
Her family bought tickets to Sea World and she had consumer documents including a Seaworld map and an online ticket purchase. Receipts for meals and grocery purchases had to be included too.
For extra credit, she had her family take a college tour of San Diego State and had the map to prove it.
Although not that difficult to do, it seemed like a lot of work to compile, organize and display all of the documents. Taylor will present it in front of the class tomorrow and be glad to have this project off of her plate!