Textbook Scavenger Hunt

Directions: Complete the scavenger hunt using your textbook. Make sure to write your answers in complete sentences.

1.  What is the name of the publisher of our textbook?

2.  What do Common Core Standards indicate? Hint pg. FM36

3.  How many units are included in the book?

4.  What is the internet address where you can have access to the textbook?

5.  Use the glossary of your book to find the definition of “prior knowledge”.

6.  Draw a picture of the symbol used throughout the book to highlight the knowledge and skills you need to master. Hint: Common Core Standards

7.  What is the theme/title of Unit 7?

8.  On what page does the Student Resource Bank begin?

9.  Name two things that you could get help with using the Student Resource Bank.

10.  Use the Glossary to define the word “disembodied”. What page was it in on in the book?

11.  Using the Index of Skills, on what pages could you find information about plagiarism?

12.  Using the Index of Titles & Authors, on what page would you find the story Rikki-tikki-tavi.

13.  In the Grammar Handbook section called Quick Reference; write an example of the two titles used before a name.

14.  In the glossary of literary and nonfiction terms, find character. List the four types of characters.

15.  What specific genre is Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed? Hint: There are two answers; it is a specific type of this genre.

Textbook Scavenger Hunt (Answers)

1.  The publisher is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing

2.  They indicate what you should know and be able to do by the end of your grade level.

3.  There are 9 units.

4.  thinkcentral.com

5.  Prior knowledge is the knowledge a reader already possesses about a topic.

7.  The title is Biography and autobiography.

8.  The student resource bank starts on pg. R1

9.  reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and spelling, speaking and listening, media, test taking

10.  separated from or lacking a body-pg. R119

11.  you can find plagiarism on pg. 1034 and also under Words cited

12.  Rikki-tikki-tavi is on pg. 78.

13.  Professor Holmes, Senator Long

14.  The four types of characters are central, minor, dynamic and static.

15.  Dark They Were, and Golde-Eyed would be science fiction.

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