The final outcome of this project will be a quick guide on a Weebly site in which you will explain some of the most important and well-known festivities that take place in English-Speaking countries: where can you find them, what are the most interesting features about that festival, when does it take place and so many details about it that you can research about. This project will be dealt with in a collaborative way in work teams.

Each team has to edit, publish and disseminate their guide. This guide will have so different places to be discovered with their festivities, traditions and cultural aspects, focused on giving as many details about these them.

To be able to create it, you will surf the Internet and overcome different missions that will help you gain knowledge and acquire strategies to prepare and publish your part of the guide. Take into account that you are going to prepare one of the festivities, but the final product has to be a complete guide made up by all your classmates with the most important festivities of the English speaking countries.

Know all the details about this project.

It will be really important for the success of this project to follow all the instructions given in each activity, using the Internet and the links as a source of information.

Before starting with your project, there are some points you must check.

Assessment

This project will be evaluated following this pattern:

• Your teacher will assess the final product, your guide, taking into account the 'Assessment rubric for the project: Festivities around the World'. It has to be your reference for the global project. Your teacher will also use the assessment rubrics to evaluate your work on the missions and the final challenge. Remember that this will be a team work.
• You can find here some of the rubrics your teacher will use:
  • 'Rubric to assess an oral presentation'
  • 'Rubric to assess a questionnaire'
  • 'Rubric to assess a classroom video'
  • 'Rubric to assess an informative text'
  • 'Rubric to assess a timeline'
  • 'Rubric to assess a digital poster'
  • 'Rubric to assess your digital site' .This one will be specially useful because it refers to your Weebly site where you will publish all your work of this project.
• Your partners will carry out peer assessment and will grade your collaborative teamwork. The students can generate and agree on the different levels or items to evaluate.
• Students will self-evaluate the final product using the rubric. 
• The teacher will also evaluate how the students have involved in the project or tackled the different missions.

At the end the project, if the assessment is positive, your teacher will give you a badge.

Try and do it as well as you can!

Teams and collaborative work

In order to deal with all the tasks in this project, you will work and learn in teams. During the whole project, you will be part of one team. You have to name it and you can even create a logo or a drawing that can represent it. This means that the knowledge will be created by the teacher's explanation, as well as self-investigation and interaction among the partners.

You have to work in teams in order to create your guide. At the end of the project, you will have a lot of information about all the festivities you usually hear of or watch at films and you will understand why they celebrate each one.

Your personal blog

You will also use a blog that will work as your digital portfolio and learning diary. Each of you must have your own blog. The tutorial 'How to start a blog on blogger' will help you create the blog in a very easy way.

The 'Rubric to assess blog posts' will help you do a great work on your blog.

Along the missions, you'll be asked to make some posts to share and present the project activities. At the end of all of them, you will be asked to design a final post with all the knowledge and products you will have come up with throughout this project.

All your posts in the blog will be identified with the tag "Festivities around the world".

This project is part of a group of projects. If you have learnt through the rest of these projects, use always the same blog. If you work only on this one, you must create one for your work.

Dissemination

It would be a pity if just the teacher, you and some of your partners enjoyed your final work and your blog. Why don't you use other ways to disseminate your guide about the festivities?

• Send the blog link to your parents, friends... They will really appreciate what you are doing at school. You will also share your guide at the school website or the website of the English department.
• Get a Twitter account for the class that will be run by your teachers. Tweet what you want to publish promoting your final post and some of the works using the #EDIAfestivities hashtag and you can even create another one with the name of your group. Remember: 280 characters including the link and the official hashtag or the one your class has decided for this project. Because of your age, the Twitter account will be run by your teachers, so you will write the tweet and then your teacher will recap all the class tweets in list.ly.
• The 'Rubric to assess a tweet' will help you create a good tweet.

Is everything clear? If you have any questions, ask your teacher (or your partners). Perhaps they may have suggestions to make your project and work easier and more useful and, at the same time, more complete.