Save time and reduce work with this no-prep, printable webquest featuring worksheets to engage your ELA students in exploring the remarkable life and works of Patricia Cornwell, author of POSTMORTEM and THE BODY FARM.

This 10-page webquest includes 50 questions to help your students discover more about Cornwell. Depending on your class time and your individual students, you might...

• assign students to find all the answers.
• divide the questions and let students teach each other as they discover the answers.

You could also...

• direct students to the Cornwell quotations at the end of the resource and ask them to use critical thinking to determine how they would fill in the missing words; then compare and contrast what they composed to what Cornwell wrote.
• ask students to choose one of the Cornwell quotations and then explain orally or in written form why they agree or disagree with it.

If you need an activity for early finishers or for extra credit, ask students to create a biographical timeline, sketch, or multimedia presentation that features...

• all important parts in Cornwell’s life.
• ten (or another number) events in Perry’s life they consider the most important.

When students complete the webquest, ask them to reflect on what they learned and...

• identify an event in Cornwell’s life they would like to know more about and explain why it interests them.
• list a Cornwell work they would like to read and explain why they chose that work.
• explain how local, national, or international events in Cornwell’s lifetime may have influenced her or her writing; alternately, choose a specific event in Cornwell’s life and discuss how it might have shaped her.
• consider what they learned about Cornwell’s beliefs, values, or philosophy; then compare and contrast these with their beliefs, values, or philosophy.
• compose a letter or email to Cornwell asking questions about her life or works.

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