What to Include in Your Travel Blog

Your goal: to design a travel blog on www.blogger.com showcasing your experiences on your chosen hike.
You will research your hike as well as ethically sourced images of your hike (using creative commons
pictures only), and create a minimum of 5 blog posts displaying your adventures.
1st Post:
Name (Only your first name please)
Date (Are you travelling during the summer or winter? Dry or wet season?)
Length of hike (the actual hike length and how long you are going for?)
Where you are going
Why you are going
Who are you going with (Or are you going alone? Will you be meeting somewhere there?)
Packing list
How you feel (Are you scared, excited, concerned, etc.)
Every Other Post:

Date of each entry

Location of each entry (Ex: 3 kms into the hike, or About a day away from Machu
Picchu).
How you feel (physically and emotionally) (Do your feet hurt? Have you had any accidents? Have you
or a friend gotten sick? Have you had to take a rest day? Have you had to stop the hike all together and
go home? Does something happen that gives you strength and pushes you forward?)
Who you are travelling with (Or are you alone? Do you make friends along the way?)
What have you accomplished today? (A steep climb, snow, water, hot temperatures, heavy backpack, etc.)

Something significant that you have learned about yourself or about the world around you.
A picture! (Either one that you take (you may stage it in class and take the pictures with the Ipads) or
from the Internet). NOTE: Any picture that is not your property (i.e. from the Internet) MUST be cited
(provide the URL under the picture).
Hyperlink the words in your blog that have been researched.

Between Heaven and Earth: Travel Scenarios

The Scenario
Its a rainy day and all I have the energy to do is look out your window and wish you were somewhere
else- anywhere else. Suddenly, I hear footsteps approaching my front door and a shudder runs down my
spine. A manila envelope comes dropping down from the mail slot in the door. I run to the window to see who it
was- just the mailman, typical. It looks like nothing exciting is ever going to happen. Its probably just junk mail,
I think to yourself. Curiosity, however, gets the better of me, and I flip the envelope over in your hands. No
return address. Weird. But there are about a million Canada Post stamps on the top right corner. Weirder. I
tear open the envelope and find a(n)_________. Whats this for? I question aloud. I search deeper in the
envelope and discover a note. It reads:
_____________________________________________________________________.
Is it crazy that I want to go?! Is it crazy that Im scared and excited all at once?! Something changes within me,
and I realize that there is only thing to do; pack my bags and leave for ____________.

The Hikes You May Choose From

North America

Appalachian Trail U.S.A (Georgia to Maine)

Grand Canyon Rim-to-Rim Hike U.S.A (Arizona)

Yosemite Grand Traverse U.S.A (California)

Chilkoot Trail U.S.A & Canada (Alaska & Yukon)

Tonquin Valley Canada (Alberta)

Kalalau Trail U.S.A (Kauai, Hawaii)

The Long Range Traverse Canada (Newfoundland)

Sierra High Route U.S.A (California)

West Coast Trail Canada (Vancouver Island, B.C.)

Glacier National Park U.S.A (Montana)

The Narrows U.S.A (Utah, Zion National Park)

South America

The Inca Trail Peru

The Torres del Paine W Circuit Chile

Pacific West Trail Chile

Fitz Roy Trek Argentina (Patagonia)

Australia/New Zealand

Bay of Fires Australia (Tasmania)

Queen Charlotte Track New Zealand

Routeburn Track New Zealand

Tongariro Northern Circuit New Zealand

Europe
Kungsleden Sweden

Tour du Mont Blanc Europe (France, Italy, and Switzerland)

Laugavegurinn/Fimmvruhls Pass Iceland

Scottish National Trail Scotland, UK

Cinque Terre National Park Italy

El Caminito del Rey Spain (El Chorro)

Middle East/Asia
Everest Base Camp Trail Nepal

Snowman Trek Bhutan

Trek to Petra Jordan

Annapurna Circuit Nepal

Africa
Mountains of the Moon Ruwenzori Range, Uganda
Reference: http://localadventurer.com/25-best-hikes-in-the-world-bucket-list/

Rubric:

Writing
(Grammar,
vocabulary and
spelling)

Very difficult
to read and
interpret.
Little
evidence of
revision.
Spelling/gram
mar errors
distracting.

Writing is
below
average.
Spelling/gram
mar errors
somewhat
distracting.

Writing is
average.
Some
spelling/gram
mar errors.

Writing is
above
average. Few
grammatical
errors.

Writing is
superior.
Almost no
grammatical
errors.

Ideas are
somewhat
present. No
detail.

Some ideas
are present.
Varying
degrees of
detail.

Some
creative ideas
explored in
relative detail.

Ideas are
explored in
detailed.
Effort is
obvious.

Writing (Ideas) Ideas and

details are
lacking. The
text lacks
effort.
Organization
& Clarity

Blog does not

follow a
sequence.
Unorganized
and difficult to
follow.

Blog entries
show minimal
evidence of
organization.

Blog entries
lack
organization
and clarity,
but are
presented in
sequence.

Blog entries
are presented
in sequence,
and
somewhat
organized.

Blog entries
are well
organized,
clear, and
presented in
sequence.

Creativity &
Originality

No creativity
or originality
is evident.

Both
creativity and
originality
lacks in some
respect.

Either
creativity or
originality is
lacking.

Creativity and
originality are
almost
always
evident.

Creativity and
originality are
superior.
Evidence of
effort.

Blog Elements

Inconsistency
in inclusion of
blog
elements.

Blog
elements
missing, lack
of detail.

One blog
element
missing.

All blog
elements are
present, but
there is a lack
of detail.

All blog
elements are
present
(name, dates,
pictures,
location, etc.)

Research

No research
evident.

Pictures are
only proof of
research.

Minimal
research
done (ie.
Length of
hike).

Sufficient
proof of
research (ie.
Length of
hike and
other fact)

Superior
proof of
research.

Late Submission: 2% will be deducted for every day that your blog is late.