Has tourism killed Venice? We visited during the busiest month of the year to find out (click on link) Make a Copy of this Document: This is now your copy in your Google Drive. Make sure you give me access to it so I can follow your work progress. Name it “yourname_venice case study” Ask for help or an explanation any time you need it! At the end of this document you have to write a 450-500-word mini-essay on Venice. Graded! Timeline Essay statement: Friday 16 November Draft Essay: Friday 23 November Final Essay: Tuesday 4 December Jot notes below: Explore each of the links below and record your thinking in the second column. Use as much space as you need! Some ideas: What did you find most interesting? What do you want to know more about? What surprised you most? How does it link to our T&T topics? Summarize some key points from an article or video Created by @kellyihilton and @SARAHLANDIS for @schoogleacademy adapted by Ms Sandra Explore Venice with Google Treks Venice. It is an interactive document so you can really spend some time on it. Read this Time to do in Venice Out article about things Watch this vlog about Venice or this one (or both). They are very different but they will give you a basic idea about why people visit. Tech tip: you can ‘slow down’ videos by going to ‘setting’, select ‘speed’ and change it to 0.75. It might make the video much easier to understand without being to slow. This is an Expedia travel video about Venice. There are downsides as well: ‘Imagine living with this crap’: tempers in Venice boil over in tourist high season Italy: Cruise Trippers Unwelcome | European Journal which should be followed up by this article Venice restaurant bill outrages Japanese tourists And its follow up Venice restaurant that hit tourists with £1,000 bill faces £17,000 fines Created by @kellyihilton and @SARAHLANDIS for @schoogleacademy adapted by Ms Sandra Optional: An older one, slightly longer and very informative article And here is another example of overpriced food This video gives a good balanced view and mentions some positives as well as the negatives clearly This article talks about the visitor numbers to Venice and how to manage visitor flow effectively (data from 2014) Some solutions that are under consideration: A step too far? Venice is considering a ‘sitting ban’ in public spaces enice to divert giant cruise ships V away from historic centre OPTIONAL: Watch one or more of these extra videos about some of the problems Venice has with tourists Money Talks: Tourist overflow in Venice Venetians say tourists are damaging their city Optional: The article here talks more about Venice and how the city was built Created by @kellyihilton and @SARAHLANDIS for @schoogleacademy adapted by Ms Sandra Optional: Book a rowing lesson in Venice Optional: Longer but definitely worth watching The Tug-of-War Between Venice's Council And Public Optional: Learn about the Venice Carnival in this article and this video. Optional: This article gives a good overview of the history of tourism in Venice. It also is a good example of an essay though a longer and more academic read. OPtional: Here is Venice’s entry on the Unesco World Heritage list Optional: Her is an National Geographic article on Venice from someone who lives there Here is your essay question: Created by @kellyihilton and @SARAHLANDIS for @schoogleacademy adapted by Ms Sandra Should tourists be banned from Venice? Watch this video on how to write a thesis statement (or in our case an essay statement) Statement: You can follow the outline here or create your own. Outline a) Introduction Show me your essay statement and draft Introduction statement: outline before you make your first draft Essay statement: in the next section. b) Body First supporting idea (topic sentence): Supporting details: Second supporting idea (topic sentence): Supporting details: c) Conclusion Conclusion statement: Write a 450 - 500 words mini-essay in the column on the right-hand side. Make every word count (so spend time on your answer). Add the total #of words at the bottom of your draft. Points will be taken if you’ve used too many or not enough words. Have a friend check your work for you before you let me give the feedback. Created by @kellyihilton and @SARAHLANDIS for @schoogleacademy adapted by Ms Sandra Here is a good video on a basic structure Here is a good (though slightly longer) video about essay writing. This will be your grading rubric (it’ll be view only but you can make a copy if you like) Optional: Here is a good start on how to write a mini-essay (the research question is given so you need not worry about that) Here is an essay map to help you organise your thoughts. Or use this burger example or this PEEL-example. These are just examples and you can use whatever works for you. Use the space on the right-hand side to rewrite your essay after feedback. This time you need to write between 450-500 words. Add the total #of words at the bottom of your draft. Writing tip: read your writing ‘out loud in your head’. This is a tip that is even used in university. By reading out loud (softly or ‘in your head’) you find mistakes much faster. Our brain knows what we have written and often ‘reads over’ mistakes. Created by @kellyihilton and @SARAHLANDIS for @schoogleacademy adapted by Ms Sandra
