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Animal Farm
Annotations by Laura Warner
Track #204302
Format: Resource list
This web quest offers a brief overview of George Orwell's novel.
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Romeo and Juliet: A Renaissance Ball
Annotations by Laura Warner
Track #186384
Format: Worksheet
Students will discover historical and background information about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. They will use software to create an Italian Renaissance masquerade party. Students will compose an invitation, a guest list (of characters from the play, appropriately grouped according to Capulet or Montague family lines), a dinner menu, a fashion guide, and a list of entertainment for the affair. The following software may be used for this project: Publisher, Inspiration, Print Shop, and Power Point. Annotation #5 explains the web quest in more detail. This web quest includes cross-curricular links to social studies, music, dance, art history, architecture, and culinary arts.
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Miracle Worker
Annotations by Laura Warner
Track #180373
Format: Resource list
Delve deeper into the play with this Web quest. Discover background information about Hellen Keller and Annie Sullivan.
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Great Gatsby
Annotations by Laura Warner
Track #138615
Format: Resource list
Students will discover the historical context of The Great Gatsby. They will begin by exploring on-line resources. Work will be evaluated through a PowerPoint presentation of at least five slides. Students will also be expected to write an essay about the Jazz Age.(The Great Gatsby is often referred to as the quintessential novel of the "Jazz Age." Using examples from the book, explain what this term meant and Fitzgerald's attitudes towards that characterization of the 1920s.)
 

 

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