Treasure Hunt Template

An Internet-Based Treasure Hunt

Created by
Audrey Graham
Northside ISD



Washington Irving	William Cullen Bryant	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	John Greenleaf Whittier

Introduction | Assignment | The Big Question | Internet Resources

Introduction

Use the Internet Resources to complete the Assignment below. When you have finished, answer the Big Questionthat asks you to combine a lot of what you learned through the treasure hunt into a "big picture."
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Assignment

Use the Internet Resources provided below to help you find the required information for your assigned author and poem.

List at least 5 interesting and important pieces of biographical information in addition tovital statistics about the author.
Give sufficient background information about your assigned poem to allow your audience to understand and enjoy the poem.
Identify all literary elements present in your poem. These elements will help you explain why the author wrote the poem and what he is trying to say. They are elements such as apostrophe, metaphor, simile, personification, imagery, etc.
Identify all Romantic Period characteristics that are present in the poem.
All members of the group must present part of the presentation. If you have more than four people in your group, you must give additional information about the poem.

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The Big Question

How are your poet and poem representative of the Romantic Period?
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Internet Resources

American Romanticism

http://classiclit.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Ftroy.gc.peachnet.edu%2Fwww%2Fbstrickl%2Flit%2Famlit.html

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng372/intro.htm

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap3/3intro.html

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~ga~31522~~

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Literary Elements

http://www.turnstiles.org/articles/poetic.html

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/poets/poetry2.htm

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~greebie/Criticism/glossary.html

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Washington Irving

http://www.hudsonvalley.org/education/Background/abt_irving/abt_irving.html

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/irving.htm

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wirving.htm

http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Irving/

http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/irvingw/

http://www.online-literature.com/irving/

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/irving.htm

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William Cullen Bryant

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/bryant.html

http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/bryantwc.htm

http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/b/bryant19ro.htm

http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bryant.html

http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/explore/bryant.htm

http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/bryant.html

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~ga~4580~~

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

http://www.eldritchpress.org/owh/owhhes.html

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/holmes.htm

http://www.seacoastnh.com/arts/holmes.html#young

http://www.2020site.org/poetry/owh.html

http://www.bartleby.com/65/ho/HolmesOdad.html

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~ga~6625~~

http://www.transcendentalists.com/holmes.htm

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/longfellow_bio.html

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=lon-58

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/long.htm

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/

http://www.nps.gov/long/

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/cal/hwlCal.html

http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/longfell.html

http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/poets/longfellow.htm

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John Greenleaf Whittier

http://www.seacoastnh.com/blackhistory/whittier.html

http://users.erols.com/kfraser/authors/whittier.html

http://www.windowwithin.com/jgwh.htm

http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/whittier.html

http://www.bartleby.com/65/wh/WhittrJ G.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASwhittier.htm

http://www.wwnorton.com/naal/explore/whittier.htm

http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=737

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/LIT/whittier.htm

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          Images:
Washington Irving             http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/bryant.html
William Cullen Bryant       http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/bryant.html
Oliver Wendell Holmes      http://www.transcendentalists.com/holmes.htm
Henry WadsworthLongfellow http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/
John Greenleaf Whittier        http://www.seacoastnh.com/blackhistory/whittier.html
Background                      http://www.backgroundcity.com/gr/group4.html
Titles                                    http://www.flamingtext.com
Colored Thumbnails        http://www.rebelartist.com