WebQuests

BEOWULF

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webgoodandra.html

(Karin's ESL PartyLand)  

DICKENS and VICTORIAN TIMES a WebQuest  

Discovering Halloween

http://www.harrison.k12.nj.us/faculty/ndamiano/Halloween%20webquest.htm

March 22nd 2007

A new WebQuest: USA Today Online http://www.usatoday.com/ 

This is the web site for the newspaper USA Today.  Go to the above address and answer the following questions:   

What are the main headlines for today?  What are these stories about?  What are the sections for USA Today?  

 1.      

Click on "News."  With your partner, select one of the top stories.  Read the story together.  Then, discuss these questions: Who is it about?  Where is it from?  What happened?  When did this happen?  How?   Why did this happen?  What is your opinion on this event?  .      

Romantic age and Coleridge

Many Romantics believed that a writer could only write when inspired to do so. What do Coleridge's revisions of the poem indicate about the importance of editing in the writing process?

Why does the mariner kill the albatross? Is his action a typically human response or trait? Why does Coleridge spend comparatively little time describing the incident?

What is the significance of the albatross being hung around the mariner's neck?

The ancient mariner's shipmates all die unpleasant deaths. Is it fair that they should suffer because of his actions?

At the beginning of Part 4, the wedding guest interrupts the mariner's story to express his fears. Why does Coleridge not have the mariner tell his tale straight through?

What is the importance of the line, 'I looked to heaven, and tried to pray' (1. 244)?

Discuss the meaning and importance of the last eight lines. Is there a moral to the poem? Where is it explicitly stated?

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