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Ms. Okey’s Blog Scavenger Hunt
blog.wsd.net/eokey
1. Look on the side of the blog. Find Categories. Which category do you think you should you click on to find posts for your English class?
Circle one: Archives
Creative Writing
English 7
English 9
Uncategorized
2. To access a post for class, you have two options. Click the date on the calendar, or click on the category for you class and then find the date for which you are looking. Let’s try both. Find the calendar on the HOME page. Click on the calendar date August 28. Find your class. What is the code word listed for August 28? ______
3. Let’s try the second option. Click on the HOME tab at the top of the screen. You should now be on the main page (there is a quotation on the HOME page that reads “The more that you read the more things you will know…” Under Categories (on the side), click on your class (English 7). What is the code word listed on the post for August 25? ______
4. Go back to the HOME page. I post assignments on the blog regularly. Some of these assignments can be downloaded and printed. Click on the post for your class on August 24 and download the assignment. Write what the message says: ______.
5. Look at the top of the blog. Click on Independent Reading. When is September’s Independent Reading book due? ______
6. On that same page, find the list of online places to look for book ideas. Notice these are in sections based on genres (historical, realistic, mystery, horror, etc.). Which type of genre do you like to read the most? ______
7. Within that genre you like from #6, click on one of the links in that section. Which link did you choose? ______Choose a book from the that looks interesting. Write down the title and author’s last name: ______/______
8. Close that window and go back to the blog. Click on the page Independent Reading again. Find the 7th grade requirements for September’s independent reading book. What are these requirements?
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9. Look on the side bar under the red label School or the label Reading. Click on RJH library. Find Roy Junior High and click on it. You are now on the RJH library system. Find the Destiny Quest button on the left side. Click on it. Under Resource Lists, click on public lists. Find the list titled “Beehive Book Award.” Write down the name of the first book on that list. ______
10. Close the list window (push the little “X” in the top right of the blue window). Write down #5 from the New Arrival List:______What is #1 in The Top 10 Books list? ______
11. Go back to Ms. Okey’s blog. I like to post books that I am reading and have read recently. Click on Ms. Okey’s Is Reading at the top of the blog. What is one of the titles of the books Ms. Okey is currently reading? ______
12. On that same page, click on the book The False Prince. To which website did the link take you? ______How many stars did this book receive on this website? ______
13. Now, go back to the blog. Click on Scholastic at the top of the blog. What is our class code for Scholastic? ______
14. At the top of the page, find the word Wonderopolis. Click on it. What is the “Wonder of the Day”? (If you can’t see the picture, just write the title and number.) ______
15. Look on the side tab of the blog (right side). Find Games. Under this section, click on the link Poetry Idea Engine. Click the green start button. A new, small, window will open. Click play. Click on one of the circles: water, flower, cactus, or fire. Each one is a different type of short poetical forms. Choose the one you want to try. Go through the instructional prompts and then click yes. Create a poem that follows the rules of the poem you’ve chosen. Write the finished poem below.
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16. Go back to the blog. Choose one other link on the right side bar to click and look at. Which one did you choose? Write down the label (in the red box- Games, Moby Max, Mythology, Reading, etc.) and the link name (A Hero’s Journey, Myth Machine, RJH Library, etc.) ______
You are done! You may now turn in your assignment and then go to the blog and play any other games you’d like to until it’s time to go.