Literature Internet Hunt Activities created by Cindy O'Hora

The Internet is an excellent resource for helping you better understand what you are reading in a book.
These hunts explore: settings, characters, author's lives, and other ideas related to the book being studied.
Users will also gain experience harnessing the Internet for research.

How to Use: I suggest you create a link from your class/school web page to this index page or the individual hunt activity page.
Use a Digital format to answer. Or Print the hunt page for an answer sheet. Or have the students number down a lined sheet of paper.

Goldilocks Web tip: You can easily adjust your view of the text on a page. If you think the words are too small: Safari - Go: View .. Make Text bigger or Mac - hold down the command key and press the + key (plus sign) or Windows use Ctrl & + key. Firefox - Go: View .. Text Size. Conversely, if you think it is too big do the same, but choose smaller or Mac .. - (minus sign) or Windows: Ctrl .. - minus sign key. Look for this feature on other browsers so you can make your view .. just right!

Among the Hidden hunt - book by Haddix utd 11/08

Census - Population growth chart

Elbow Room - Exploring Population Density

Write a Letter for a Luke or Jen

Compare and Contrast forms of Government

Design a PowerPoint™ presentation of the story elements

Making Book Trailers with Photo Story 3 free software and free tutorial

April Morning Hunt - on the novel by Fast ms/hs

Write a Letter to a Character

Revolutionary War Spies Project

Founding Mothers & the Daughters of Liberty

Founding Fathers

Design a PowerPoint™ presentation of the story elements

Civics projects

Children of the Longhouse activity - book by J. Bruchac

Bullying Essay

Helping writing activity

Gift writing activity

Listening writing activity

Author Essay

Write a Letter to a Character

Exploring Native Americans

Outstanding Native Americans

Fever 1793 Hunt- on the novel by Anderson10/07

Research an infectious disease

Write a letter to Matilda pdf

Compare and Contrast family life - 18th Century and Today

Character Map computer project

A Note for Freedom

Make a vocabulary crossword puzzle

Design a PowerPoint™ presentation of the story elements

Weather Observation project

Colonial Times research project tech, creativity & history

Civics projects

Gathering Blue Hunt - on the novel by L Lowry utd 5/07

Write a Letter to a Character

Design a PowerPoint™ presentation of the story elements

Gentle Annie Civil War Nurse

Make a vocabulary puzzle

Essays

Write a Resumé activity

Island of the Blue Dolphins hunt - on novel by O'Dell rvd 12/07

Make a Plot Timeline

Character Map computer project

Make a vocabulary puzzle

Make a GoogleLitTrip for the story

Johnny Tremain hunt - on novel by Forbes

Make a Plot Timeline

Personal Narrative Essay

Founding Father from your state

Revolutionary War Spies Project

Founding Mothers and Daughters of Liberty

Write a Resumé activity

Civics projects

Freedom In America: Some Assembly Required | 2nd site

Making Book Trailers with Photo Story 3 free software and free tutorial

Language Arts Lingo Internet Hunt

Chasing Metaphors - seeing is believing WOW!

Copyright Issues Hunt food for thought and action utd 1/2010

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Activity ms/hs

Point of View

Essays

Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle MYO Project | Rubric added

Create a Travel promo or Make a flag

Literary Device Quiz

Personal Narrative Essay - help injured

Character Map computer project

Make a GoogleLitTrip for the story

Night Hunt - on the book by Wiesel ms/hs

Heroes Essay

Make a Timeline

Make a vocabulary crossword puzzle

Watch - A Class Divided - compelling

Nothing But the Truth by Avi

Make an Internet hunt based on the novel

Student Handbook activity utd 11/08

Patriotism utd 11/08

Put it in Writing - Journalism utd 11/08

How are funding decisions made? utd 11/08

Character Map computer project

Patriotic Song Project

Civics Exploration - The Supreme Court

Nory Ryan's Song Internet Hunt - book by Patricia Giff pdf

Writing Activities for Nory Ryan's Song

Make a Plot Timeline

Write a Letter to a Character

Character Map computer project

Personal Narrative Essay - Hunger

Making Book Trailers with Photo Story 3 free software and free tutorial

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg 5th up

The Year You were Twelve activity

Teen Time Use

'An' prefix game

Bullying Concerns

Folk Art

Timely Considerations

Write a Resumé activity

A Note for Freedom

Vocabulary list - Make a crossword puzzle

Time Idioms - It's high time you learnt them! offsite wrkst

You can't legislate the weather - What is a Sunshine Law?

Select a Literature Circle role. Conduct one for this book.

P is for Pennsylvania - make a book of facts - pbl

Make a GoogleLitTrip for the story

Small Pieces, Loosely Joined activity - about the web

The Adventures of Ulysses Hunt utd 9/07

About Homer and Ancient Greek Life utd 9/07

Truth or Lie - based on The Thirteenth Tale

Words from Art and Illustrations

Literature-based Internet Hunt - how to make one

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets hunt

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban hunt

Write a Resumé activity

Make a set of Character Trading Cards. - Planning sheet

Authors Based Hunts:

Other literature related stuff:

O. Henry - MS/HS

Shakespeare Internet Hunt - "O! this learning, what a thing it is."

Children's Authors - for 4th - 8th grade readers. 2/07

Children's Authors Hunt 3 2/07

Reading for Fun - problem based learning

So What Do You Think? Writing a Review

Literature based Crossword Puzzles and quizzes

Artemis Fowl book 1 Quizzes

A Christmas Carol puzzle based on the Dickens story

A Dickens of a Resume project

Literature resources links page

National Core Reading, Writing, Speaking Listening Standards

Using Mac OSX?

Other Sites:

Make your own answer form how to

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Updated October 8, 2010, posted 3/1999

Copyright ©1999, Cynthia J. O'Hora. Educators may print a hunt for use in a classroom setting.

Save a tree - use a Digital Answer Format - Highlight the text. Copy it. Paste it in a word processing document. Save the document in your folder. Answer on the word processing document in a contrasting color (not yellow) or font (avoid Symbol, , or other ornate artistic fonts). Save frequently as you work. Enter your name and the date in the header, of the document. Submit your document via electronic dropbox or email attachment. Bad things happen. Save a copy of your work on your computer.

Terms of use: I am providing many of the hunts in PDF. You'll need a free pdf program to use them like Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may print the pdf copy for an answer sheet. January 7th, 2007 - I have decided to release some of my works to public domain. Others are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. Look at the bottom of a page to find the notice of copyright. I continue to retain a full copyright protection on the majority of my work. That is noted on the individual works. Copyright issues Frequently Asked Questions about these hunts. Answer keys info.