Scavenger+Hunt

Directions:

 * 1) Read each questions carefully, making sure you comprehend what the question is asking.
 * 2) Make sure you have this page open at all times as a reference page.
 * 3) Open up each link in a new tab or window (to ensure it does open in a new tab, right-click the link and press "Open in New Tab" or "Open in New Window).
 * 4) Read through the entire website carefully to make sure you find the correct answer to the question.
 * 5) Keep the answers you find in a Notepad document or a Word document and save them for later.
 * 6) Answer all questions in one to two paragraphs.
 * 7) When you're done, double check your answers by going to the "Scavenger Hunt Answer Key" page. (Use the honesty policy and only go to this page //after// you've answered the question).
 * 8) After you've double checked your answers, post them in the discussion forum with a title containing your name and "Scavenger Hunt." For example, "Tom Jones Scavenger Hunt."

Edmund Spenser[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/EdmundSpenser.jpg width="138" height="169" align="left"]]
__**Question One:**__ Read the biography of Sir Edmund Spenser by clicking "biography" or going to this link: @http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm. Pay special attention to all dates in the biography. Then match the date to the event that happened. Remember to keep your answers in a document as you go through these questions. __**Question Two:**__ Go to this site and read through the list of famous quotes by Sir Edmund Spenser. Find your favorite quote and explain why it is your favorite in 3-5 sentences. Take what you learned in the biography of Spenser and mention why you think he used that quote, what the meaning of the quote is, in 2-3 sentences.
 * 1552 ||= Edmund Spenser marries Boyle ||
 * 1590 ||= Edmund Spenser is designated Sheriff of Cork ||
 * 1594 ||= Edmund Spenser is born ||
 * 1595 ||= //The Faerie Queene//, Books I-III published in London ||
 * 1598 ||= Publication of //Amoretti and Astrophel// ||

__**Question Three:**__ Read Book One Canto Four of //The Faerie Queene// and find one line or phrase from the poem that describes each of the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride. Also mention in 1-3 sentences why you think that line describes the deadly sin it references.

** ﻿[[image:http://www.poets.org/images/authors/130_eapoe.jpg align="left"]] Edgar Allan Poe**
__**Question Four:**__ Read this short [|biography]of Edgar Allen Poe here. What event may have triggered the poet's eventual demise?

__**Question Five:**__ Visit this [|site] and read through the poems //Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Bells, The Haunted Palace//, and //The Conqeror Worm//. Match the vocabulary word to the correct title: Worm || __**Question Six:**__ Read this [|timeline] of Poe's life; what three poems were published posthumously, and in what year?
 * Sepulchre || The Conqueror
 * Porphyrogene || The Bells ||
 * Bedight || The Haunted Palace ||
 * Gilead || Annabel Lee ||
 * Expostulation || The Raven ||

**[[image:frost.jpg width="155" height="203" align="left"]]Robert Frost**
__**Question Seven:**__ Many of Robert Frost's writings have strong themes of nature. Read this biography and explain in 3-4 sentences why you believe he felt so comfortable writing about nature so often.

__**Question Eight:**__ Frost won four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry - the most of any poet. Read this timeline and list what works he won the awards for and what year they were published.

__**Question Nine:**__ On the right hand side of this site you will fins some of Robert Frost's most popular poems. Take some time to read through the following poems: //Out, Out--; A Line-Storm Song; Birches; Blueberries; Bond and Free; Going for Water; Mending Wall; Nothing Gold Can Stay; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening; The Road Not Taken.// Match the lines to the poem it belongs to.
 * //Out,Out--// || "And be my love in the rain" ||
 * A Line-Storm Song || "The blue's but a mist from the breath of the wind." ||
 * Birches || "We ran as if to meet the moon" ||
 * Blueberries || "So dawn goes down to day" ||
 * Bond and Free || "I took the one less traveled by" ||
 * Going for Water || "And then-the watcher at his pulse took fright." ||
 * Mending Wall || "And life is too much like a pathless wood" ||
 * Nothing Gold Can Stay || "For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings." ||
 * Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening || "He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'" ||
 * The Road Not Take || "And miles to go before I sleep." ||