The+Journey+for+Jane+Austen+(Web+Quest)


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The following websites will lead you on a fun adventure across the internet to learn more about Jane Austen and her novels.
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To begin your quest, please type the provided links to enter into each unknown territory to gather the treasures and knowledge pertaining to Jane Austen. If there are any instructions, please follow them and then answer the questions to show off your newly gained wealth of knowledge!
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===Please proceed to the middle of the page with the blue links to see several different page options. Under "Foundation" click on "Regency Period" to learn more about Jane Austen's time period. Then answer the following questions! ===

1. When did the Regency Period begin?

2. Why was King George III considered unfit to rule? What is an example of what he said that showed his "illness"?

3. When Austen finished which novel, what did the Prince Regent give her the "honor" to do?

4. When did the Prince Regent finally take the throne and what was his new title?

===*Now proceed to the box with all the links again and choose "Rank and Class" to learn of the addressing terms used back in Austen's time period to answer the next 2 questions.* === 5. How would you address the nobility and who belongs to this class?

6. How do you distinguish between a noble lady and a non-noble lady (the wife of a nobleman, but not born of nobility herself)?

Read the page about Jane Austen's life and answer the following questions.
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Was Austen a publicly acknowledged writer when she was alive?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. When and where was Austen born?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Who were Austen's brothers and what were their professions?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. What was Austen's first mature work and when did she write it?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. In 1809, to where did Austen move? Why is this considered the beginning of Austen's most productive period?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. When did Austen die? What illness caused her death? What novel was left incomplete due to her death?

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. How old was Austen when she began Pride and Prejudice?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. What was Pride and Prejudice originally called?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. What year did Austen's father offer the Pride and Prejudice manuscript to a publisher and what happened?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. When Sense and Sensibility was published, what was stated on the title page?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. In 1803, Austen sold what draft to a publisher, but what actually happened to the manuscript?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. What two novels were published posthumously?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4.[]
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. What is the genre of Persuasion?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Who is part of the gentry class?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Who was part of the lower class?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. What does Austen satirize in Persuasion and give an example of how she does this?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. How can a person's class be distinguished?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. In Austen's time what does "candour" mean? What does it mean now?

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Which book was voted the British nation's top book?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Who played Fitzwilliam Darcy in BBC's Pride and Prejudice? What famous scene was he in?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. What do experts sat that makes Austen "stand out from other writers"?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. There are some people who do not like Austen's works. Which 19th century romantic writers do they prefer?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Who wrote a screen play for Sense and Sensibility that made Austen more popular? What did this person win?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. What two things are Austen's novels about and why do her books still interest us?

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Apparently, what day of the week does many of the pivotal events in Austen's novels occur?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Name an event that happened on this day in Sense and Sensibility?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Name an event that happened on this day in Pride and Prejudice?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Name an event that happened on this day in Persuasion?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. What historical event happened to this person that Austen may have sympathized with?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. Do you believe that Austen deliberately made these pivotal events happen on this day or is it all just an uncanny coincidence?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Read the following page about marriage during Austen's time. Then answer the following questions.
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. What three things were not open to women during Austen's time?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. What is an example of an occupation available to women? Was it a highly respected one?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. How did "genteel" women get money?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Was Jane Austen considered on of the few women professionals? Why or why not?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Could unmarried woman live by themselves? Name the historical figure who had to live with her mother until she was married.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. Why was entering into a state of marriage extremely serious business?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. How old is Fitzwilliam Darcy and how would his friends describe him?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. How much does Frederick Wentworth earn? What are his favorite things to do?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. What are some of the games and exercise that William Collins enjoy?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Who is the oldest gentleman on the list provided?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Click on "Most Popular?" Who is the most popular male character?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">6. Who is the least popular character?