Essential Questions Essay – Requirements

EQ1 – How does a people’s myths, fables, legends, and folklore affect their culture?

EQ2 – What are common themes throughout different cultures’ myths, legends, fables, and folklore?

Directions

1. Choose only one of the Essential Questions above to answer. Your essay should have at least three pieces of evidence to support your position on this question. Remember: these are Essential Questions, therefore there may be varying answers dependent upon the question you chose, and the stories you chose to compare.

 EQ1 – find evidence that supports how your two myths, fables, legends, or folktales shaped or formed the culture of their countries of origin. You must have two of the same type of story: myth, fable, legend, folktale (fairytale), and they cannot be from the same culture.  EQ2 – find at least three examples of how these two stories: myths, fables, legends, folktales (fairy tales) – are similar – possible similarities could include: morale, theme, lesson, character archetypes, etc.

2. You may only write about two stories from two different cultures: myths, fables, legends, or folklore to compare. 3. One of the myths, fables, legends, or folklore stories you choose MUST be from the collection we have read and discussed in class. You may choose your other story: myth, fable, legend, folklore from a different culture not discussed, but you must provide me a copy of the story with your final essay. (Yes, you may bring in stories from your own culture or religion.) 4. You must have some form of Pre-Writing Strategy: examples – Brain Storm, Bubble Map, Tree Map, Double Bubble, Outline, etc. 5. You must have a handwritten rough draft. 6. Your final draft may be typed, but you must use one of the following fonts or their equivalent on your computer: Calibri, New Times Roman, Harrington, Arial, or Century. 7. Font Size: (that’s the size of the letters, words, and numbers typed) must be between 11 to 13 font. 8. 1 ½ to Double Space, Skip a line between paragraphs, and indent the first line of each paragraph. 9. Conventions and C.U.P.S. will be 15% of your grade. (Conventions – rules of grammar; C.U.P.S. – Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling) 10. Paragraphs – you must have an Introductory Paragraph, Make each new piece of evidence its own paragraph, and a Conclusion Paragraph. 11. Bibliography/Sources: PPL (Page, Paragraph, Line) – I will show you how to write a Bibliography page, and cite your PPL sources.