7th Grade Chinese Inventions Assignment Due March 10th, 2011

The Silk Road to the Good Life!!!
You are a member of the Chinese merchant class during the Song Dynasty.
You hope to make your fortune selling one of China’s newest inventions along the Silk Road. You realize the best way to gain more business is to make an advertisement for the invention. Your superior, Harpfucius, will supply the information about the invention you will be advertising.

Requirements:

• The name of your invention
• A creative slogan to advertise your invention
o Be Funny, Silly, Poetic, Etc…
• Full color illustrations
• Legible writing
• Use the entire poster
• One page minimum written on each of the following:
o Why is your invention important?
o How will it change the world? (Will people still be using it in the future……even in the year 2000?)
Grading
This project is worth 50 points
15 points: poster
Is it creative? Did you use color? Does it depict your invention?

35 points: Write up
Did you meet the length requirement? Did you explain why your invention is important? Did you explain how it will change the world? Did you give specific examples about how life has been without the invention? How life will be with the invention?
5 points: Neatness
*it is preferable that your writing is typed!! If not, blue or black ink only final draft form. Did you check for spelling errors? Did you check for sentence flow?
Due: Thursday March 10th, 2011
Please note: You have Presidents week included in this time frame…