BANNED BOOKS WEEK WEBQUEST

GUIDING QUESTIONS

Directions:

  1. SAVE this document to your workspace on the server.
  1. Locate the questions for your role below.
  1. Use them to guide your research.
  1. Type your answers to each question in this document.
  1. Copy and paste the website URL’s you used to answer each question below your answer.
  1. As you finish your work in the lab each day, SAVE the document again on the server AND on your flash drive.

QUESTIONS FOR THE BOOK SPECIALIST:

*Answer all questions (except #6 below) in complete sentences.

** REMEMBER: List URL’s used to answer each question under that question.

1. SUMMARIZE the book’s plot in 4-6 complete sentences (without giving away the ending).

You might begin with this:

“This book is about a character named ______who _____ . . .”

2. Describe the book’s setting (time and place) in 3-5 complete sentences.

3. List and give descriptions/details about the book’s main characters (at least three characters;

each description in 2-3 complete sentences).

4. What is a major theme (moral or lesson) of the book? Identify and explain it in 2-3 complete

sentences.

5. Provide a short, summarized biography of the book’s author (4-6 complete sentences).

Include such details as:

·  Date of birth (and death, if deceased)

·  Place of birth

·  Number of books written

·  Most popular books

·  Other important details of his/her life

6. Create a Works Cited List for your questions (do after you finish all of your research):

REMEMBER: You (Book Specialist) are responsible for typing the group’s entire Works Cited list.

QUESTIONS FOR THE Book Challenge/Ban Specialist:

*Answer all questions (except #1 and #4 below) in 3-5 complete sentences.

** REMEMBER: List URL’s used to answer each question under that question.

1. Where has this book been challenged/banned? (1-2 sentences)

2. Why has it been challenged/banned?

3. How does the book’s author feel about censorship of his/her book and/or of books in general? (NOTE: Include direct quotations—statements made by the author—for this question

and place them in “quotation marks”)

4. Create a Works Cited List for your questions (do after you finish all of your research):

QUESTIONS FOR THE IMAGE Specialist:

* REMEMBER: List the URL for each image directly under that image.

**NOTE: When using Google images, make sure you capture the correct URL.

To do this, click on the “Website for this image” link to the right of the picture.

DO NOT use a URL that begins with www.google.com/images . . .

1. Search Google Images (images.google.com) to find ten (10) relevant still images (photos

and/or clip art) to go along with the information gathered by the other group members.

2. Make sure the images are of good size and quality. After you search a keyword in Google

Images, scroll down and select Medium or Large (below where it says “Any Size”). In general,

the larger the number (ex: 560 X 780), the better the quality of the picture.

3. Save each image in Jpeg format:

A. Click on Full Size Image to the right of the picture.

B. With your mouse on the picture, right-click.

C. Choose Save Image As from the choices.

D. Change the File Name to something that will help you to remember what the image

shows.

E. Below File Name, change Save as Type to Jpeg.

F. Create a folder on your flash drive called Webquest Images. Drag all pictures into

that folder.

4. Also save each image in this document, with the Works Cited entry right below it (see #5

below).

5. Create a Works Cited list for all images you find (do after you finish all of your research):

QUESTIONS FOR THE Project Director/Technology Expert:

  1. Your “questions” are, instead, a fill-in document/checklist to help you to manage the group’s work.
  1. PRINT your part of this document (this page to the end of the document).
  1. As you complete each step, have the teacher initial that step.

Our group’s book and author: ______

Group members (*Remember to list below who will have the back-up flash-drive):

Project Director/Tech Expert (your name): ______

Book Specialist: ______

Book Challenge/Ban Specialist: ______

Image Specialist: ______

STEPS Checklist (continues on next page):

STEP / RESPONSIBILITY / DUE DATE / DATE COMPLETED / TEACHER INITIALS
1. Role Assignment
Students will decide who will fill each role:
·  Project Director
·  Book Specialist
·  Book Challenge/Ban Specialist
·  Image Specialist
ALSO:
·  Decide who will back up the completed work on his/her flash drive / All group members
2. Research:
·  Questions Answered
·  Works Cited entries below each question/ image
(everything must be printed when presenting to the teacher) / 1. Book Specialist
2. Book Challenge/
Ban Specialist
3. Image Specialist
STEP / RESPONSIBILITY / DUE DATE / DATE COMPLETED / TEACHER INITIALS
3. Project Proposal:
·  Typed
·  Lists format type (PSA, School Board meeting, author interview)
·  Lists choice of technology tool (PowerPoint, Glogster, Blabberize, Prezi)
·  Includes a 2-3 sentence description of the presentation / Project Director
4. Mastery of technology tool
(training with Mr. Tantum) / Project Director
5. Typed script:
·  5 copies printed
·  1 given to teacher for approval / Image Specialist
6. Works Cited List:
·  Printed, complete Works Cited list
·  Includes everyone’s citations / Book Specialist
7. Creating the Pieces of the Final Project:
·  Voice-over
·  Importing and resizing images (provided by Image Specialist)
·  Informational text
·  End credits:
Works Cited
Group member names: First and last initials only
Class period / Your group will assign roles (list here):
8. Assembling All Pieces of the Final Project / Project Director
STEP / RESPONSIBILITY / DUE DATE / DATE COMPLETED / TEACHER INITIALS
9. Project Editing / All members
10. Completed Project Uploaded to Site / Project Director