This document outlines four English assignments for an online course, including due dates and requirements. It provides instructions for a discussion board post on a chapter from the novel The Book of Lost Things, requiring students to respond to one of three discussion questions in 500-700 words. It also outlines three mini-research modules to be completed across four weeks, culminating in a final research paper due at the end of the course. The research paper must be 1,500-1,700 words and include a primary source and minimum of four secondary sources from an annotated bibliography.

1. English Assignments (4 assignments)
Description of each assignments and due dates
Due April 6th
Textbook Reading: The Book of Lost Things: Chapter Thirty-
One to Thirty-Three
Discussion 7 - "Of All That Was Lost and All That Was Found"
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Choose one of the following questions to respond to:
1. Does David meet your definition of a hero from the
Discussion Board back in Module 2? Why/Why Not? Which
character causes the greatest change in David?
2. The Crooked Man offers David pointed advice, “truth about
the world to which he so desperately wants to return.” He says
that the world is a horrible place and that the life David left
behind “is no life at all” (Connolly 318). Is David’s fantasy
world truly a better place than the real world? Does David have
a life in either world? Why or why not?
3. How did you react to the ending? Did you find it
sad/uplifting/hopeful? If you could rewrite the ending, would
you? What would your ending be?
Remember the Initial Responses, due by Saturday, should:
Be between 500 and 700 words in length
Meet Minimum Standards
Contain at least 1 quote, correctly formatted with an in-text
citation and work cited entry (for help, remember there are
handouts in Module 1 that cover quoting, citing, and Work
Cited entries).

2. Remember that a minimum of 2 Peer Responses, due by the
Tuesday following Initial Responses, are required and should be
between 50 and 100 words. These should be substantial posts -
not just "I like your response."
Due April 14Research Modules 1These are broken into 3 mini-
modules to be completed across four weeks:
Part 1 - The first part will focus in on the basics of research:
what it is, finding a topic, and bringing the focus into
something that can be covered in the word count and time
allowed. The first Research Assignment is a Prospectus or
proposal of a research topic based on the questions
provided. From there, we will move into an overview of sources
working to Research Module 2. There is one last Check Your
Understanding quiz to complete before moving forward; this
quiz will be on the selection and use of sources in particular.
Part 2- The second part of the research module, which will be
two weeks in duration, focuses first on the selection and
development of sources, leading to the Annotated Bibliography.
All the information you will need on how to craft an Annotated
Bibliography will be covered.
Part 3 - The final Research Module will focus on the basics of
forming an argument, claims, reasons, and evidence, response,
and warrants. The final Research Module focuses on taking all
the information from planning to organizing, to incorporating
sources to focusing on introductions and conclusions and then
revising. The third part of the Research modulefinishes with
the Research Paper being turned in.
Lecture Source for this Module:
Most of our lectures in this Module are based on the writings of
Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, Joseph Williams, and others in
their book, The Craft of Research.
Booth, Wayne C, et al. The Craft of Research, 4th edition,

3. University of Chicago, 2016Below are some Research Questions
focusing in on the Fairy Tale genre that our course is centered
on. You must select from one of these questions/topics.
Fairy Tale Research Questions for Consideration (the questions
are in bold for each entry):
1. “The Hero’s Journey duplicates the stages of the Rite of
Passage. First, the initiate faces separation from his own,
familiar world. Once separated, he undergoes initiation and
transformation, where the old ways of thinking and acting are
altered or destroyed, opening the way to a new level of
awareness, skill, and freedom” (Harris).
Valerie Estelle Frankel, while patriarchal in her thinking,
writes. “[t]he true goal of the heroine’s journey is to become the
archetypal, all-powerful mother…The girls demonstrate this
need for motherhood by questing, rarely for kingdoms, but for
husbands or missing family members. These goals show the
desire to build a family circle of one’s own” (4)
Given these two quotes, is there a difference between “boy
stories” and “girl stories” in fairy tale films? Is the goal
different or just the means of achieving it? How have these
goals changed in the 21st Century?
Frankel, Valerie Estelle. From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine’s
Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland & Company,
Inc., 2010. Google Books, books.google.com/books?
Harris, Reg. “The Pattern of Human Experience.” The Hero’s
Journey: Life’s Great Adventure, Harris Communications, 2015,
yourheroicjourney.com/the-heros-journey-lifes-great-adventure/
2. “Who can imagine a fairy princess with hair that is anything
but long and blonde, with eyes that are anything but blue, in
clothes that are anything but a filmy drape of gossamer and
gauze. The fairy princess remains one of the most powerful
symbols of femininity the Western world has ever devised and
falling short of her role model, women are the feminine failures
to some degree” (Holland, 54). Are fairy tale characters still
good gender role models today?

4. Holland, Samantha. Alternative Femininities: Body, Age, and
Identity, Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. EBSCOhost,
db11.linccweb.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.
aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=142325&site=ehost-live
3. “The wondrous fairy tale emanated from a wide variety of
tiny tales thousands of years ago that were widespread
throughout the world and continue to exist in unique ways under
different environmental conditions. The form and contents of
the fairy tale were not exactly what they are today… the fairy
tale refuse[s] to be dominated by print and continue[s] to be
altered and diffused throughout the world by word of mouth up
to the present. That is, it shaped and was shaped by the
interaction of orality and print and other technological
mediations and innovations, such as painting, photography,
radio, film, and so on” (Zipes, para. 2) This leads to two
questions:
How have fairy tales been co-opted by artists, writers (such as
Shakespeare), and film specifically or in general?
Examine one specific film (please no Disney Animated films) as
to how it meets either the archetypes of fairy tales or follows
the Hero’s Cycle. I have a list of films that can be used if you
are interested in this one.
Zipes, Jack. "The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of
culture." Marvels & Tales, vol. 25, no. 2, 2011, p.
221+. Academic OneFile,
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=AONE&sw=w&u=lincclin_hcc&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA27592
1478&it=r&asid=100495a050152aae7cf8f60edc016d5c.
Accessed 5 Aug. 2017.
4. “Fantasy and horror often exploit disabled people, presenting
them as embodiments of terror and evil. In contemporary
fantasy, we sometimes see archetypically evil characters
redefined primarily by the telling of their backstories to provide
[a] rationale for their behavior and to evoke sympathy or pity

5. from the audience” (Donnelly, para. 1). Recently many
blockbuster books and/or films have been adapted from fairy
tales, but have shown a darker view with the deformity of
classic characters, such as Maleficent in “Sleeping Beauty” or
Elphaba in Wicked, even Tyrion, and Jamie Lannister or Theon
Greyjoy in the Game of Thrones. Why this dark turn?
Donnelly, Colleen Elaine. "Re-Visioning Negative Archetypes
of Disability and Deformity in Fantasy: Wicked, Maleficent,
and Game of Thrones." Disability Studies Quarterly, vol. 36,
no. 4, Fall2016, p. 7. EBSCOhost, doi:10.18061/dsq.v36i4.5313.
5. “As psychologist and educator Bruno Bettelheim points out
in The Uses of Enchantment, second only to a child’s parents
and other caregivers in influencing that child’s understanding of
his or her world ‘is our cultural heritage,’ and ‘[w]hen children
are young, it is literature that carries such information best.’…
For young children, the Harry Potter books work like fairy
tales. They are set in a magical world, with evil characters such
as Voldemort and good ones such as Albus Dumbledore. There
are even mermaids, dragons, unicorns, trolls, orphans, and
witches. Thus, youngsters recognize the books as part of the
fairy tale world and Harry as a fairy or folk tale hero” Is Harry
a fairy tale or folk tale hero? How does the Harry Potter series
follow the Hero Quest?
Grimes, M. Katherine. “Harry Potter: Fairy Tale Prince, Real
Boy, and Archetypal Hero.” The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter :
Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. University of Missouri
Press, 2002, pp. 89-122. EBSCOhost,
db11.linccweb.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.
aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=113900&site=ehost-live.
Harry Potter has many different topics that could be explored:
racism, feminism, the sky’s the limit (just run it through the
Discussion Board for approval.
6. “I formed a mental image of Cinderella in which she could
have been black with short, curly black hair, like me, the

6. Disney reference changed forever my mental image of how a
princess should look. In the movie, Cinderella was white, and
all of the other Disney princesses were white as well; none of
the princesses I saw in my favorite films looked like me.
Slowly, the imagery solidified and the message became more
concrete: princesses are white, and if you are not white, then
you cannot be a real princess. These Disney representations of
what a girl should look like and how she should act, if she
wants to be a princess, stay with many girls” (Hurley). How do
Disney films represent race in recent films?
Hurley, Dorothy L. “Seeing White: Children of Color and the
Disney Fairy Tale Princess.” The Journal of Negro Education,
vol. 74, no. 3, 2005, pp. 221–232. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org/stable/40027429.
Due April 25
Research Modules 2In preparation for our Final Research Paper,
the next part of our Research Project is to put together an
Annotated Bibliography.
For the Annotated Bibliography, you will need:
A Minimum of one source should be the primary source for
interpretation in your research paper.
The other 4 sources should be secondary academic sources
about your primary source. No more than two sources can be
from the internet (outside of the HCC Library). Remember that
there is a list of sources you CANNOT use.
All the information about what an Annotated Bibliography is,
how to put the Annotated Bibliography together, and what
should be included in each annotation is provided over the next
two pages followed by a sample of a correctly formatted
Annotated Bibliography for you to view. The specifics of the
Annotated Bibliography assignment are:
MLA 8 Format
Locate, summarize and evaluate 5 sources for possible use in
your Research Paper, using the six points of guidance provided

7. in the Cornell University Library's "Critical Analyzing
Information Sources" webpage (Links to an external
site.) provided. Each annotation should be between a minimum
of 75 to 150 words.
A Minimum of one source should be the primary source for
interpretation in your research paper.
The other 4 sources should be secondary academic sources
about your primary source. No more than two sources can be
from the internet (outside of the HCC Library). Remember that
there is a list of sources that are not allowed for this project.
Due May 3
Research Modules 3
What's next in our Research plan? The final paper, which is due
in a couple of weeks.
Using the sources from your Annotated Bibliography, write
a 1,500- 1700-word research paper on the topic you have
already been working on. A literary research paper is an essay
that uses a critical approach to argue a view or interpretation of
a work of literature and supports that interpretation with
research. A minimum of 4 secondary academic sources, along
with a primary source, is required.
This part of the Research Module has information on how to
write the final paper. Please review and use the time between
now and the due date to start drafting your final paper.
The next page in Canvas is a Discussion Board that we can use
to chat about questions, possible ways of wording things, and
anything that comes up about the Final Research paper. While
ungraded, it will be open through the end of the semester.
Purpose Statement: Articulate a clear research question or
problem. Develop a written research paper in standard scholarly
style (MLA) and using Standard English grammar, organized
around a clear thesis, presenting evidence from literary texts
and secondary sources in a cogent fashion to formulate and
defend an original argument (Course Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, &

8. 7)
Directions: Write a 1,500- 1,700-word research paper on a
literary topic of your choice. A literary research paper is an
essay that uses a critical approach to argue a view or
interpretation of a work of literature and supports that
interpretation with research. A minimum of 4 secondary
academic sources from your Annotated