Gateway #2: Bill & Tedʼs Excellent Time Travel Tour Co. Unit: Belief Systems Essential Question: To what extent does the past determine the present? The future? After their travels through time, Bill and Ted have decided to start a business: Bill & Tedʼs Excellent Time Travel Tour Co. Their first customers are a group from the United Nations who want to try and find solutions to current problems caused by religious tensions. Bill & Ted have hired you, because you are totally awesome, to plan the tour for the UN members. You will have to take them to 3-4 key moments in history to help them understand the current conflict. Before they go on the tour, you will have to provide them with a preview of what they can expect to see, which will include: • • •

The time and place to which they will travel A description of the relevant groups or individuals they will see An explanation of why this event is important to help understand the current conflict

You will be assigned a group to create a tour for one of the following conflicts: • Israel/Palestine • Catholics/Protestants in Northern Ireland • India/Pakistan • Sunni/Shiite in Iraq • West/Islamic Fundamentalism • Christians/Muslims in Nigeria • Serbs/Muslims in Bosnia Project Steps: 1) (Group) Read about your groupʼs conflict and answer questions about it as a group 2) (Group) Choose the moments you think are most important for people to see to understand your conflict 3) (Group) Divide these moments between your group members 4) (Individual) Learn information about your moment 5) (Individual) Write your tour preview (directions on the back) 6) (Group) Create a timeline of your tour 7) (Group) Create a poster sized Travel Brochure for your tour 8) (Group) Presentation to the class

Gateway #2: Bill & Tedʼs Excellent Time Travel Tour Co. Individual Writing Component - 75 points Your Conflict: ____________

Your Event: ___________________

You are part of a tour company planning a trip through time to show member of the United Nations why a current religious conflict exists. In a multi-paragraph piece of writing, please address the following: Task • Explain the conflict that your tour addresses and identify the event you will take your tour group to see • Describe the event (When and where are you taking them? Who will they see there? What will they see happening? Why did this event happen?) • Explain why this event is important to understand the current conflict.

Your writing will be evaluated for the following areas: • Do you fully address all aspects of the task in through detail, including all major information? • Do you convincingly, thoughtfully, and precisely explain the connection between your event and the conflict? • Do you successfully analyze why the event happened and how it led to later conflicts? • Do you write multiple paragraphs that present a clear argument? • Do you consistently and effectively use transitions to develop your ideas and arguments logically? • Is your writing consistently and beautifully appropriate to your purpose, audience, and job? • Are mechanical and grammatical errors non-existent?