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MyEnglishClass.us — An Introductory Web Quest
Directions: Answer the 21 questions below using Mr. Stratton’s Classroom Online < (+38 points)

(1) What is the web address of Mr. Stratton’s Classroom Online? (+1*)

(2) What is Mr. Stratton’s email address? (+1*)
(3) Which specific page will tell you what your homework is for the week? (+1*)

(4) What is the English Homework for Week 2? (+1*)

(5) What can you probably do if you’ve lost a homework assignment sheet and don’t
remember what your homework is? (+1*)

(6) Download and print a copy of the week 2 assignment sheet and then attach it to this
web quest by staple when you turn it in for a grade. (+2)

(7) Read the information under “What’s My Grade?” and then answer the following
question: If you earn 312 points out of a possible 385 in the first quarter, what is
your percentage grade? (+1*)

(8) If you get 33 points out of 40 on this quest, what is your percentage grade? (+1*)

(9) How many days do you have to turn in a late assignment before it goes into the grade
book as a zero? (+1*)

(10) What materials do you need to get for English class? Please list them all, even if you
already have some of them. (+2*)

(11) Read the “Purpose and Outline of the Course.” What are you required to do at least
once each month of the school year? (+1*)

(12) What do you need to have out at the start of each English class? (+2*)

(13) Summarize 1 of the “5 Rules to Live by” that you think you’ll have the most
trouble with. Why? (+2*)

(14) Is Mr. Stratton free when you are? If so, during which of his free period(s) could you
see him for extra help or to make up a quiz? (+2*)

(15) Under Writing Help, watch Sentence Problems: Comma Splices from Standard Deviants School English Grammar: Grammar Follies, and then write a sentence with a comma splice error. (+3*)

(16) Now fix the comma splice error you just made. (+2*)

(17) Click on Dictionaries and then use the Thesaurus at Merriam-Webster to find three
synonyms for stupendous. (+2*)

(18) Name 1 title in the Literature Aloud section of this site that sounds like it might be
worth listening to. (+1*)

(19) Under Fiction in Find Great Books, click on The Rhode Island Teen Book Award link
and list these place winners for the 2007 voting: (+4*)

TitleAuthor

#1 Ranking______

#10 Ranking ______

(20) Find the NVHS Library Catalog Online. How many of the above books are available to check out of the high school library? (+2*)

(21)Using Find Great Books, find 10 titles you’d be interested in reading. (+5*)

No.Author TitleIn the NVHS Library?

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Bottom of Form

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Extra Credit: Ask a parent or guardian to sign the line below. You’ll receive extra credit for a signature only, but ask your parent or guardian to also provide an email address: (+2*)
Parent X ______

Print Parent Email address ______
Whose address is this?First ______Last ______
Relation to student? ______