Next month my family is driving through the southern United States, so our teacher asked us to make a travel plan using a map. I wrote that our “South” project includes states like Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, and Oklahoma. For Georgia, I wrote that the capital city we would fly into is Savannah. When we got to Texas on the map, I said its capital was Houston. Looking at Florida, I told my group that the largest city in the state is Orlando. I also labeled the big river between Texas and Mexico as the Mississippi River. As we traced the shoreline, I wrote that the Gulf of Mexico only touches Florida. In the mountains part of our trip, I explained that we would hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Florida. On a North Carolina slide, I typed that the capital is Charlotte. For Louisiana, I colored in New Orleans and called it the state capital. In my summary sentence, I wrote that the southern states stay warm and sunny all year with no big storms. I ended by saying that Kentucky doesn’t share a border with any other southern states. When I finished, my teacher smiled and said, “Nice start—but let’s check those facts.”