Heritage Research Packet

Directions: Talk with your parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents to find our where your family comes from.  Determine the nationality or nationalities represented in your heritage. Choose one dominant nationality of your heritage that you would like to study for this report and project.

***Note: This packet does not need to be turned in. Use it as a guide to complete your research and to organized your report.

What is the nationality/country of your heritage that you will study? Who in your family is from this country?

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Look up this country in the encyclopedia or on the website below. Then, answer the following questions about your country. www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html.

Geography

1.    What is the present capital of your country?

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2.    What is the current population of your country?

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3.    What is your country’s latitude? _________________________________________________

4.    What is your country’s longitude? ________________________________________________

5.    On which continent is your country located? ________________________________________

Government

7.    Explain how this type of government runs. (What are the ruling bodies? How is the power distributed? _________________________________________________________________

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8.    When is your country’s national holiday?

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Economy        

9.    What are two major exports of your country? Where are they exported to? ___________________________________________________________________________

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10.  What are two imports of your country? Where do they come from?

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Additional Information

11.  List three or more interesting facts about your country.

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Writing Your Report

Use this research and the attached outline to write a 6 – 8 paragraph report. Follow the guidelines below to organize and write your report.

1.     Begin your report with an introductory paragraph about your nationality. Use your information from the first question in this packet.

2.     Each body paragraph should relate to the bold underlined categories in this packet.

3.     Each body paragraph must have a topic sentence.

4.     Your last paragraph should be the conclusion paragraph.

5.     Your report should be typed in a Times New Roman 12 pt. font. Your report should be 1.5 spaced.

6.     The coversheet of your report needs to have  a title, your country’s name, the date, and your name.

7.     Include a bibliography. See attached sheet for format guidelines.

8.     Your report, map, family tree, costume, and flag should be all attached when turned in.