M7: Kwaheri! Nimefurahi kukutana na wewe.

Due: February 2nd-A Group / February 9th-B Group

Using the story arc, write a 5-paragraph blog post that demonstrates character change. Select ONE of the following problems, you may slightly modify the problem to meet your traveler's needs:

• Choose one of the possible missions from M6 that you didn't do. Revisit your AINAC Country and complete that mission.
• You are serving as an assistant/apprentice with a professional in Medieval West Africa (government official, scholar, artist, architect). They are unhappy with your work because it doesn't include the "new ways of Islam." You have to fix your work or risk being punished severely. (Historical Task: Describe the ways Islam influenced West Africa.)
• While visiting with friends in Medieval West Africa, you are mistaken for a Griot. Since you have an adventurous spirit, you go along with their misunderstanding and decide to tell them a griot tale about their culture. (Historical Task: Explore the oral traditional & research a culturally accurate story.)
• The village elder of a village in Medieval West Africa has asked you to honor him with a song. You decide to write a song that will please the elder. (Historical Task: Explore the musical traditions of West Africa by writing a culturally accurate song.)

Include 2-4 hyperlinked vocabulary words from weeks 15-18.


If you choose to use dialogue, make sure you properly format it (new line for each speaker, quotation marks). Also make sure that the dialogue is unified together based on topic (just like a paragraph).

M6: Africa Is Not A Country

Due: January 19th-A Group / January 27th-B Group
NOTE: In addition to "M6", include the name of your country of study in the title of your post.

Using the story arc, write a 5-paragraph blog post that demonstrates character change. Select ONE of the following problems, you may slightly modify the problem to meet your traveler's needs:

• Travel to your country in the modern day. Meet people and ask them what they think about their country. What makes it a good place to live? What are some things they don't like about their country?
• If your country was ruled by a Colonial Power, travel to your country during it's struggle for independence and freedom. Join the side of Independence and tell us about the transition. Who was in charge? What were some of the things that happened during the transition of power? Was it peaceful or was violence involved?
• Travel to your country during the Middle Ages (even if it wasn't a country then). Meet some citizens and participate in their daily lives. How did people live? How was society organized? What roles did people play?
• Go on a Safari! Travel around your country and describe some of the interesting plants, animals, rivers, mountains, and climate zones you encounter.

Include 2-4 hyperlinked vocabulary words from weeks 13-16.


If you choose to use dialogue, make sure you properly format it (new line for each speaker, quotation marks). Also make sure that the dialogue is unified together based on topic (just like a paragraph).

M5: Islam or West Africa...You Choose

Due: January 6th-AM Core / January 12th-PM Core

Using the story arc, write a 5-paragraph blog post that demonstrates character change. Select ONE of the following problems, you may slightly modify the problem to meet your traveler's needs:

1. You have been invited to travel with a group of Muslims on a hajj. (Describe the things you see and do with them.)
2. You are visiting with some Jewish friends in the Holy Land when the Crusaders arrive. (Describe some of the things the Crusaders do to your friends.)
3. Head to the Medieval African city of Jennejeno, spend the day exploring this great town. (Describe life in Ancient Jennejeno.)
4. Join a group of salt traders and take your goods to Ghana. (Describe the Western African geography and/or the salt trade.)

Make sure that your story follows the story arc and includes accurate historical information.


Include 2-4 hyperlinked vocabulary words from weeks 11-14.


If you choose to use dialogue, make sure you properly format it (new line for each speaker, quotation marks). Also make sure that the dialogue is unified together based on topic (just like a paragraph).

M4: The Arabian Peninsula

Due: December 8th-AM Core / December 14th-PM Core

Using the story arc, write a 5-paragraph blog post that demonstrates character change. Select ONE of the following problems, you may slightly modify the problem to meet your traveler's needs:

1. You are traveling across the desert with a Bedouin caravan. Suddenly a sandstorm approaches.
2. You have arrived on the Coastal Plain on a trading ship. There is some confusion regarding the business your shipmates want to do.
3. You are living in the city of Mecca. A man named Muhammad is not happy with the idol worship and polytheism happening at the Kabbah.
4. You are visiting a town where the followers of Islam have just arrived. Many people in town are confused and excited by this new religion, and they ask you to help them understand it.
5. You are traveling through the Arabian Peninsula with a group of European scholars and are looking for cultural ideas (scholarship, science, technology, recreation,medicine, arts) that you can take back to Europe. One of your colleagues disagrees with what you've chosen, and she demands you explain how it will be useful in Medieval Europe.

Make sure that your story follows the story arc and includes accurate historical information.


Include 2-4 hyperlinked vocabulary words from weeks 9-12.

If you choose to use dialogue, make sure you properly format it (new line for each speaker, quotation marks). Also make sure that the dialogue is unified together based on topic (just like a paragraph).