• Introduce students to a collection of brochures for cruises to different places around the world.

• Encourage students to examine the brochures with the purposes of analyzing the brochures with the following criteria:

• - Length of time needed for the journey
• - Type of ships offered
• - Environments to visit
• - Types of souvenirs available to buy at various ports along the journey
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• Create a chart that organizes the information students collected by examining the travel brochures.

• Engage students in a discussion to analyze the relationship that exists between the environment, the types of souvenirs available for purchase and people’s motivation to seek such items.

• Use the information displayed on the chart and the students’ discussions to create general statements about travel. Note that examples could include:

• - “Travel takes time.”
• - “Different places make and sell different things.”
• - “We want different souvenirs as adults than we do as children.”

Notes to Teacher

One purpose of this motivation is to create students’ awareness of traveling by ships and the time allocated to traveling to different places.

Another purpose of this motivation is to present students with the concept that the objects we buy are related to different environments. For example, macadamia nuts are usually purchased as gifts in Hawaii.

A Final purpose of this motivation is to provide students with an opportunity to analyze people’s motivations for buying or wanting certain souvenirs. For example, a young child might want a postcard or a seashell from their cruise, but a teenager might select something very different. The idea that interest changes over time is a central theme of the poem and is highlighted in this motivation.