In groups of 4-5 students, you will travel to Hillman library and locate/check out a physical book type item meeting each of the following criteria. It doesn’t matter who checks out each item, as long as you are able to bring them to class on Tuesday. Make sure you keep of running list of which items match which criteria. If somehow a book matches more than one category, you may count it for up to three things. (Note: Some items might have to be requested from storage.)
- An item that reprints the full text of the U.S. constitution
- An item containing a politician’s recipe for something
- An item containing an illustration of a Mark Twain character
- An item containing a pre-1975 illustration of Sherlock Holmes
- A published walkthrough or description of how to cheat for a video game
- A published screenplay
- A facsimile edition of a literary classic
- A book published by B.W. Huebsch
- A scholarly edition with a list of errata in it
- A print bibliography of works about a common subject or written by a common author
- A novel with little plot summaries at the start of each chapter
- A book of poems that is in no way a “best of” or an anthology
- A ghostwritten autobiography
- A novel by a left handed author
Note: You will be receive a 100% on this quiz if you participate fully. If your group is able to find every item, you will receive ten bonus points.
Otherwise, the number of successful finds will not affect your grade.