Objective:  The students will increase their communication skills.

Procedure:
1.  Discuss with students the importance of your Main Street/Downtown area and how encouraging tourists to visit your city will bring money to the community.

2.  Tour the downtown area with students and ask them to "think like a tourist." As these "visitors" observe the various buildings and homes, they should ask themselves "what would make you want to stop here?"

3.  As a group, discuss what they have seen and how they felt about specific buildings on the tour. Then decide what buildings would be most interesting to visitors.

4.  Have students, individually or in groups, create a travel brochure for the Main Street/Downtown area.  Encourage them to use adjectives, adverbs, persuasive expressions, and propaganda techniques.

Enrichment:  Have a group create a commercial (videotape) to advertise Main Street/Downtown.  Again encourage them to use emotionally charged words--adjectives, adverbs, persuasive expressions, and propaganda techniques