Introduction Welcome to Mrs. Greer’s Poetry WebQuest. First, you will learn about different types of poetry.  Second, you will explore the internet by searching for answers to a fun scavenger hunt! Third, you will show off what you learned by writing your own poetry. Task A. You are responsible for learning about five different types of poetry: Acrostic, Haiku, Cinquain, Limerick, Free Verse and Diamante. B.  Next, you will search the web to complete a poetry scavenger hunt. C.  Last, you will create a poem for each of the types listed above. Process A.  Click on this Website - http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html  and review these different types of poetry: Acrostic Haiku Cinquain Limerick Free Verse Diamante B. Complete the scavenger hunt with the help of the provided websites. Open Apple Pages or Microsoft Word and save the file to your desktop as LastNamePoetry.  Type in your Name at the top and Poetry WebQuest.   Click on the website(s) provided in the questions, then answer the questions in complete sentences. 1)  http://www.poetry4kids.com/poem-270.html . What is different about this teacher? Would you want this kind of teacher? Why/Why not? 2) http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poem.aspx?PoemID=529&CategoryID=29  & http://www.poetry4kids.com/modules.php?name=Poetry_Books&op=ShowBook&bookid=8  What are these poems about? Who did what? 3) http://www.rhymezone.com Go to this website. Think of five words then find four words that rhyme with the words you thought of.  List all the words in the document. 4)  http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/famous-haiku-poetry.php   Read five of these poems (by clicking on the author's name).  Pick one that you like best and tell me what the author is talking about. (click on the author to read their poems) 5)  http://www.seussville.com/seussville/ (Click High Bandwidth) When did Dr. Seuss write his first book, And to think that I Saw It on Mulberry Street? (You must search the site to find the answer) 6)  http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/limerick.htm How many lines are in a limerick? 7) http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/haiku.htm Describe the pattern for a traditional Haiku poem. 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky  What well-known poet wrote the Jabberwocky? What is it about? 9)  http://www.poohcorner.com/A-Short-History-of-Pooh-and-Winnie.html  Who is A.A. Milne? Tell me some important things about him. 10) http://www.poemuseum.org/selected_works/index.html  Name two poems and dates written by Edgar Allen Poe on this page.  Summerize one of them. C. After reviewing the particular types of poetry and completing the scavenger hunt create one of each of the 5 poems listed in #1. Type them in Apple Pages or Microsoft Word.   Evaluation You will be evaluated by how you complete your three tasks.  Make sure you follow all directions for every task. Be sure to save each of your poems. Also, save all work to the server.  Complete the scavenger hunt by typing your answers in Apple Pages or Microsoft Word as you find them. All together you should have 6 (or more) pages to turn in, one for each of the 5 types of poems, and one for the scavenger hunt.  We will use the "Turn your Projects in" folder to turn these in.