Save time and eliminate extra work with this no-prep, printable webquest featuring worksheets to engage your high school ELA students in exploring the remarkable life and works of RAYMOND CHANDLER, author of THE BIG SLEEP and FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. This 9-page printable webquest includes 50 questions to help your students discover more about RAYMOND CHANDLER. Depending on your class time and your individual students, you might ... assign students to find all the answers, or divide the questions and let students teach each other as they discover the answers. You could also ... direct students to the Chandler 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 Chandler wrote. ask students to choose one of the Chandler 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, either one that features ... all important parts Chandler’s life, or ten (or another number) events in Chandler’s life they consider the most important. You’ll find additional information about many questions in the answer key (included). Use this additional information to form questions for extra credit. Click here for your copy of this handy resource for your literature classes. ^^^ Click the FOLLOW button next to my picture to learn about Class Act Press sales, new resources, and freebies! ^^^ Leave feedback to EARN POINTS that turn into cash for future TPT purchases! Click the “provide feedback” button next to your resource, rate the resource, and leave a short comment. (You must do both to earn credits.) You get 1 TPT credit for each dollar you spend, and you can spend it like cash on future TPT purchases. 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