Names: ______________________AND _____________________ Class: ____

Poetry around the world Scavenger Hunt

1. I know there is a poetic book about Egypt and a mummy and it starts with words “black as night, stretched as tight”. It’s probably available at a commercial site

What’s the name of the book? ________________________________

Who wrote the book? ______________________________

Check our library catalog

Do we have the book in the library? ____What’s the call number? __________

2. I know there are web sites on Chinese Nursery Rhymes, and I remember one that has a candlestick in it. It was on a website from England (.uk)

What animal is in this nursery rhyme? ______________________________

What is the name of the web site?____________________________________

Then check our library catalog

Do we have any books on Nursery Rhymes that are Chinese in the library? ______

Do a POWER search with the words ______________________AND ___________

Call # _____________________

Title __________________________________________________________

3. In Japan, Matsuo Basho is known as the “master of haiku”. The name Basho

means some kind of tree.

What is the kind of tree? ______________________________

4. I’m looking for a website with poems that are German and printed by “Toothpaste

Press” and have a reference to William Wordsworth

The name of the website is________________________________________________

Google’s Advance Search Engine

Find web pages that have

1. All these words ____________________________________

This exact wording of phrase____________________________

One or more of these words_____________________________

Search within this domain: ____________________

Find web pages that have

2. All these words ____________________________________

This exact wording of phrase____________________________

One or more of these words_____________________________

Search within this domain: ____________________

Find web pages that have

3. All these words ____________________________________

This exact wording of phrase____________________________

One or more of these words_____________________________

Find web pages that have

4. All these words ____________________________________

This exact wording of phrase____________________________

One or more of these words_____________________________