National+Geographic,+The+Silk+Road

__Materials__
National Geographic Map Essentials Stops on the Silk Road Handout in your journal

__Step 1 __
Write your objective for this lesson. Read the National Geographic Text from page 30 - 31. If you would like to listen to the podcast of this text, follow the link: Traveling the Silk Road

__Step 2__
Answer questions 1-6 on page 31 of the National Geographic Map Essentials book. You may begin answering right under your objective. Please number the questions. Use complete sentences. Use part of the question in your answer, and use details from the text to support your answer. Please skip a line between each question.

__Step 3 __
Using the map on page 30 of the National Geographic Map Essentials book to assist you, complete the handout "Stops on the Silk Road." Please make sure you spell the names of places correctly, and use capital letters when writing a place name.