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Learning Strategies Class

Scavenger Hunt Activity using Guinness Book of Records

Your assignment is to

• look through the Guinness Book of Records or Ripley’s Believe it or Not

• create 10 questions about the facts found in the book for others to answer.

• type up the questions on one page

• type up the 10 questions with answers and page numbers where answers are found on another page

• give both pages to me when you are finished

Example:

Questions on page 1: Who won the most SnoCross medals?

Questions and answers on page 2:

Who won the most SnoCross medals?

Blair Morgan (Canada) won the most SnoCross medals. He won 8.

1.  Describe a story of an important event you remember from school (elementary school, junior high, high school)  What happened? Who was involved? What made this event memorable? What did you learn from the event?   Remember at least 8 sentences.

2.  Find a photo to illustrate your story.

We are continuing to examine the characteristic of perseverance. Watch Nick’s video and then complete the following questions on lined paper and hand in for marking.

1. What message is Nick giving us?

2. Why is he such a good spokesperson for perseverance.

3. If you could talk to Nick, what 5 questions would you ask him?

4. What do you think Nick might be doing in 5 years from now? Why?

5. How can perseverance help you now and in the future?

All successful people have certain things in common. These are

• self awareness
• goals
• perseverance
• self-advocacy
• emotional support

1.  Define each characteristics.

2.  Create a poster about one of the characteristics. Include

a quote about the characteristic
a definition of the characteristic and examples of it
a picture that illustrates it

3.  Write  a paragraph about how you display or could display this characteristic in you life. Make sure you edit for mistakes. Ask someone to look it over to catch those mistakes you don’t see.

4.  Print everything and submit it to me.

photo by jezuez471 uploaded to Flickr

Imagine that you have the use of this limo and a driver for 24 hours. What would you do? Where would you go? Who would you invite along? Why? Remember to give reasons for your answers, and please use standard English and not MSN English. Thanks.

I’m looking forward to reading about your adventures.