EN103: Fairy Tales

Portfolio of Response Papers and Summative Essay

At the last class meeting on Friday, December 14, the portfolio and summative essay will be due.

For the portfolio, collect all of the response papers that you have written this semester and arrange them in chronological order, in hard copy. Then, read through the papers and respond to them in one of the following ways:

Option 1: In a 2-3 page essay, describe how your views of fairy tales have evolved over the course of the semester. Document this evolution with specific examples from at least three of the response papers, explaining as precisely as possible what the examples reveal about your views and thought processes. Feel free to elaborate your perceptions and opinions of fairy tales now, and how you think they might continue to evolve.

Option 2: In a 2-3 page essay, describe how your writing style or approach to composing written work has evolved over the course of the semester. Document this evolution with at leas three specific examples taken from different response papers. These examples might represent things that you think you could have done better, or things that you think show improvement or valuable qualities that you hope to incorporate into your writing more often. Feel free to consider any elements of style or analysis, and to refer to your graded essays as well.

Option 3: After reviewing the response papers and thinking about the fairy tales we read and your reactions to them, compose your own fairy tale (of any length.) This might take the form of a modernization or a revision of a classic fairy tale, or an original tale in style or mode of the literary fairy tale tradition. Please note that it is very important that your tale respond in recognizable ways to themes that are inherent to a specific fairy tale or to fairy tales in general. Think of it as another way of contributing to, or talking back to, the tradition of fairy tales.

Append your summative essay or fairy tale to your portfolio of response papers, and hand them in together on the 14th.