Ready Player One Chapter 0006 Mrs Bly Eng 4

Hook: Can you solve these riddles? Directions: Try to solve these riddles 1. If you look at the number on my face you won't find thirteen anyplace. 2. Feed me and I live, yet give me a drink and I die. 3. Take off my skin - I won't cry, but you will! What am I? What would happen if, like Wade, you spent years trying to solve a riddle????

Why does Wade3 take LATIN? James Halliday ALSO took Latin “He’d also occasionally used Latin words and phrases in his early adventure games” (61) Wade3 will do ANYTHING to gain more knowledge to help in his gunter quest for the Easter Egg!

The Almanac What is the Almanac considered to most gunters? How often do people read The Bible? Wade3 wants to read the Almanac “night or day” (61). He PRINTS it out like an old-fashioned BOOK and puts the pages in an old 3-ring binder! He knows it by HEART now!

Pages 62-63 !!! Class Discussion These pages need to be studied carefully because they list so many of Halliday’s interests! What is your favorite book? What would you consider your “Holy Trilogies” of movies? What is your “desert island” videogame of choice?

NAME THIS MOVIE: “Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.” FERRIS: Four thousand restaurants in the downtown area, I pick the one my father goes to. CAMERON: We're pinched, for sure. FERRIS: Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. Let's go. CAMERON: Let's surrender. FERRIS: Never. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz_eNUMWX4 A

Anorak’s Invitation See page 64 Three hidden keys open three secret gates Wherein the errant will be tested for worthy traits And those with the skill to survive these straits Will reach The End where the prize awaits

The Copper Key & the Hidden Message See pages 66-67 “This realization blew my mind. It changed my whole perspective on the Hunt for Halliday’s Easter egg. From then on, I began to think of the Hunt as an elaborate D& D module” (67). The Secret Message is the notches that were in different letters. When you put those letters together they formed this message: The Tomb of Horrors “…in a tomb filled with horrors” (67) BUT WHERE? “You have much to learn if you hope to ear a place among the high scorers” (67).

The Hidden Message: (p65) “The Limerick” The Copper Key awaits explorers In a tomb filled with horrors But you have much to learn If you hope to earn A place among the high scorers.

Tomb of Horrors

Ch. 0006 SQs 1. What language did Wade study in school and why? 2. What was Wade’s secret to mastering Anorak’s Almanac? 3. List a few of Halliday’s favorite authors. 4. What movie had the line “Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive.”Google it. 5. Pages 62-63 need to be studied! What are you interested in learning more about? 6. Re-write the opening verse of Anorak’s Invitation. 7. How did Wade find the hidden message for the Copper Key? 8. Re-write the hidden message.

Conclusion For homework , you must read Chapter 7 at HOME. (this will take less than 25 minutes) TEASER: WADE3 FINDS OUT WHERE THE COPPER KEY IS HIDDEN!!! Complete all SQs for chapters 0006-0007 fro homework