Travels of Ibn Battuta Post Cards Go to the Travels of Ibn Battuta website

Travels of Ibn Battuta Post Cards
Go to the Travels of Ibn Battuta website: http://ibnbattuta.berkeley.edu/
You will be assigned one of the “chapters” 1-13. Skim through your chapter and select a location that Ibn Battuta visited during his travels.
After reading the account, pretend that you are Ibn Battuta and “send” a post card back home to Tangier (Morocco)-Ibn Battuta’s home.

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  To make the post card, should click on the picture from his trip and “Copy the Image” onto a new page in Microsoft PowerPoint and paste into a blank slide. Use the slide that is ½ of the page picture, ½ page writing.
  
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  Size and position your picture correctly. Make sure that you use a catchy title or caption, so we will know where you are writing from.
  
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  The other half of the post card should be the message home. The post card should include important information, like”
  
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    The means of transportation used by Ibn Battuta (horse, donkey, camel, ship)
    
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    The distance traveled and how long the trip took
    
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    The weather or climate
    
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    Unusual sights or dangers along the way
    
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    A description of the picture on the post card
    
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    Other personal or cultural information that you want to share
    
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    His health, and personal life
    

When you are happy with the result print to the color printer.