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Research Quick Tips:

 * //Books--they've revolutionized the world! Use them!//
 * //Googlebooks and eBooks---new modes of publication by// //using **CNTRL+F** you can locate keywords to locate passages on your topic.//
 * //Encyclopedia are for quick background information AND they should launch into finding sources through keywords and related terms to sources that you can cite to support claims in your research.//

Locate books on your subject
 * Books/Destiny Online Catalog**
 * Locate websites using Webpath Express
 * Locate databases using ONE SEARCH.
 * Find eBooks for Macbeth, the Iliads, etc.. and use Follet's Reader.
 * Allows you to create citations of the sources you find using Destiny Online Catalog's RESOURCE LIST feature!!!
 * See //**Heroes in Literature**// Resource List example.
 * //Ask your librarian for a review if you forget how to use these features!//
 * //eBooks: **Iliad** and **Macbeth** are available as eBooks but require the Follet Reader. See librarian for assistance.//

Databases
Databases are good resources for general reference information, literary criticism, primary sources and biographical information. Any source you find using a database will have a MLA citation attached to it (usually at the end of the article). Please check the MLA citation for accuracy. GENERAL SOURCES: Needing an overview or background information on your heroes topic? Start here! //** Encyclopedia Brittanica) **// //** World Book Encyclopedia **// //** Biography Resource Center - biographies **//
 * WHOSE WHO SEARCH **

//** eLibrary **// //** Gale Virtual Reference **// and //** Student Resources in Context **.// //** Biography Resource Center - biographies **// Need literary criticism or articles on literary themes? Go to eLibrary and search **//eLibrary's: Special Collection - Literature//** for literary reference information.
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Web Resources
** //Is your hero in a book from antiquity?// ** //Check out the following websites with books downloadable as eBooks, HTML, etc..// **//Has your hero been represented in works of art?//** **//Has your hero's character been represented in a movie?//** **//Has your hero been part of a ballad, song or opera?//** Check out the Internet History Sourcebooks created by Fordham University. Choose your era (Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Indian, Islamic, etc.) and use the index to find information.
 * **Gutenberg Project.** [] [eBooks can be downloaded to a Kindle, or downloaded as HTML to read on your computer. These purpose of the Gutenberg Project is to make works available to all.
 * **Internet Archive.** []. [ The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books. ]
 * **Perseus Project**. []. [See works by Homer, Virgil...]
 * "**Heroes in Art.**" . **Art Institute of Chicago**. Collection assembled by Grace Murray. 6 November 2010. __@http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/node/11204 __ . The Art Institute of Chicago's Education Resources has created a "collection" of Heroes in Art for you to use in your research project. [A virtual collection of original art online especially assembled by the Crown Resource Education Department for this project]
 * **IMBD [Internet Movie Database]**. []Has your hero survived the test of time and made it into the movies for today's audiences?
 * The Aria Database
 * //Need some general historical information about the historical era?//**
 * **Internet History Sourcebooks**
 * ** [|eHistory]. Ohio State University. Web.[] . Allows users to search timeline periods to understand what was happening in history between specified years searched. **
 * ** HyperHistory [ timeline]. **[|http://www.hyperhistory.co]

**Assignment Description** //A hero is introduced in her[|**[1**]] ordinary world, where she receives the call to adventure. She is reluctant at first but is encouraged by a wise elder to cross the first threshold, where she encounters tests and helpers. She reaches the innermost circle, where she endures the supreme test. She seizes the treasure and is pursued on the road back to her world. She is transformed by this experience, returning to her ordinary existence with a treasure to benefit humankind.// Does this story sound familiar? It should. It is the plot line to many stories you have grown up with: from //The Iliad// and //The Odyssey// to the Star Wars saga, from //The Matrix// to //Ironman,// from any Disney movie to any Harry Potter novel.

Essential Questions:

 * 1) How does literature reflect society’s vision of what is right and good?
 * 2) How does a society shape its heroes?
 * 3) How is the hero story indicative of the personal values of the time period?
 * 4) How does this heroic concept still affect us today?

Ancient India
Hero: Rama **Database/Encyclopedia**: Search World Book encyclopedia or an encyclopedia database for background information on heroes of India. Interpretive work
 * History of this era leading up to the excerpt from Valmiki’s //The Ramayana// . //[|Ramayan of Valmiki]//. Web. ["complete public domain translation of the Ramayana to be placed online].
 * Annotate and understand excerpt from Valmiki’s //The Ramayana// text pp. 240-251
 * Modern adaptation – Patel’s //Ramayana: The Divine Loophole// – see me for a copy
 * Music – Ravi Shankar
 * Connect to Dharma through “Lessons of the Indian Epics”
 * Database/eBooks: **
 * Use **Gale Virtual Reference** to search for eBooks on your topic.
 * Web Resources **
 * Internet Indian History Sourcebook. Web. [] (use CNTRL+F and type in Ramayana to locate information on this piece of literature in Indian history].
 * "Ramayan." Baratadesam: Everything about India. Web. []
 * "Valmiki." Baratadesam: Everything about India." Web. []
 * Manas:[] [History of India, culture, etc.}
 * Manas:[] [History of India, culture, etc.}
 * "Sita Sings the Blues." [an interpretive film online of Sita and Rama].[].

**Ancient Greece**
Hero: Achilles **Database/Encyclopedia**: Search the World Book Encyclopedia-a subscription database available from your library.
 * History of this era leading up to the excerpt from Homer’s //The Iliad//
 * Annotate and understand the excerpt from Homer’s //The Iliad// text pp. 66-8 [An eBook version is available through **Destiny** or download a through ** [|Project Gutenberg](Web source) **.
 * Poetry – Keats’s “Endymion”
 * Music – “Tales of Brave Ulysses” by Cream
 * Modern history – Schliemann’s discovery of Troy
 * Non-fiction – Shay’s //Achilles in Vietnam –// obtain copy from [|googlebooks].
 * Fiction – Atwood’s //Penelopead –// copies in library
 * Web Resources: **
 * Achilles. .
 * Achilles. .
 * Achilles: Mythical Hero and Real Tendon. n.d. Web. 16 November 2010. .
 * ** HyperHistory [ timeline]. **[|http://www.hyperhistory.co] (Search for timeline of Ancient Greece-history)
 * Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Greece. Web. []

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<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Hero: Aenaes **Database/Encyclopedia**: Search the World Book Encyclopedia-a subscription database available from your library.
 * History of this era leading up to Virgil’s //[|Aeneid] (Aeneid.see Perseus Project. Tufts Univeristy.// [ [] )
 * Annotate and understand the excerpt from Virgil’s //Aeneid//
 * Opera – Purcell’s //Dido and Aeneas// (1689).
 * Poetry – Tennyson’s, “Lotos-Eaters”
 * Non-fiction – Ch. 4 “Lotus Land: The Flight from Pain” from Shay, Clelland, and McCain’s //Odysseus in America// – obtain copy from googlebooks
 * Fiction – Dante’s Inferno (Virgil as guide) – see me for a copy

**Databases/eBooks**:
 * Use **Gale Virtual Reference** to search for eBooks on your topic.
 * Virgil's Aeneid. eBook format available online . Web. []
 * Web Resources: **
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0in; padding-right: 10px;">[|Dido and Aeneas.] Aria Database. 15 Nov 2010. <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;">//http://www.aria-database.com/cgi-bin/aria-search.pl//
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;">//<span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: 19px; white-space: normal;">"Story of Aeneas."[eBook online, illustrated].<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofaeneas00clarrich#page/n5/mode/2up] //
 * <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; white-space: nowrap;">//"Aeneas Carrying his father out of Troy."// [caption of illustration in //Story of Aeneas,// eBook]. [|http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofaeneas00clarrich#page/32/mode/1up]
 * "Aeneas in the court of Dido." [caption of illustration in Story of Aeneas, eBook]. [|http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofaeneas00clarrich#page/65/mode/1up]
 * ** HyperHistory [ timeline]. **<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://www.hyperhistory.co] (Search for timeline of Ancient Rome-history)

**Classical Rome**
Hero: Jesus Christ **Database/Encyclopedia**: Search the World Book Encyclopedia-a subscription database available from your library.
 * Historical record of Rome c. 30 AD leading up to New Testament Gospels
 * Annotate and understand the excerpts text pp. 435-441, and one gospel version of the Passion and Crucifixion
 * Modern adaptation/musical – //Jesus Christ, Superstar// (1973)
 * Social commentary – //Monty Python’s Life of Brian// (1979)
 * Non-fiction – David Denby’s view of Jesus as a rebelling against Old Testament notions of tribal strength and a forceful, violent God – see me for a copy


 * Database/eBooks **
 * Use ** Gale Virtual Reference ** to search for eBooks on your topic.




 * Web Resources **
 * American Standard Bible. Matthew. Web.[]
 * "Biblical Chronology." New Advent. Web. [] [Use CNTRL+F and search Jesus to locate section in article referencing his lifetime].
 * Christian Ethereal Library. []. Includes other primary sources that will reference Jesus.
 * ** HyperHistory [ timeline]. **<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://www.hyperhistory.co] (Search for timeline for events around Jesus lifetime)

“Dark Age” Anglo-Saxon Europe
Hero: Beowulf **Database/Encyclopedia**: Search the World Book Encyclopedia-a subscription database available from your library. If the citation notes that it is an eLibrary article, then search the title in eLibrary as the hyperlink will not direct you to the title.
 * History of era leading up to the excerpt from //Beowulf// text pp. 14-20
 * Annotate and understand excerpt from //Beowulf// text pp. 27-65
 * Modern performance – Ben Bagley’s stage version – YouTube it
 * Modern adaptation – //Beowulf// (2007Fiction – Gardner’s //Grendel//
 * Database **
 * **<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px;">Saupe, Karen. "Beowulf goes Celtic." //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fides et Historia // 2(2001):97. //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eLibrary //. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. **<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Retrieved from http://elibrary.bigchalk.com
 * <span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">** NAPIERKOWSKI, THOMAS. "Universal Hero." //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">World & I //. 01 Sep. 2000: 247. //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eLibrary //. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. ** <span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Retrieved from http://elibrary.bigchalk.com
 * eBooks **
 * Beowulf. University of Adelaide. Web. ** [] **
 * Web Resources **
 * "Beowulf". Read Write Think.Web.<[]>.
 * "Beowulf". British Library.Web.<[]>.
 * "Beowulf". British Library.Web.<[]>.
 * Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery. Web.<[]>.
 * Beowulf for Beginners. Web.<[]>.
 * <span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">//<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Beowulf" in Hypertext //. //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eLibrary //. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. Retrieved from: <[]>.
 * <span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">"Beowulf": Original Old English Version. //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eLibrary //. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. Retrieved from <[|http://elibrary.bigchalk.com]>
 * Poetic Devices in Beowulf. n.d. Web. <[]>.
 * The Linguistics and Literary Contexts of Beowulf: Overview. n.d. Web. <[]>.
 * <span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">Traditional. //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beowulf: Heroic Literature And Epics //. MacMillan General Reference, 1963. //<span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; border-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eLibrary //. Web. 21 Nov. 2010. (Use eLibrary to access this online source---it requires a username/password)

Medieval England
Heroes: Arthur and Gawain **Database/Encyclopedia**: Search the World Book Encyclopedia-a subscription database available from your library. Use ** Gale Virtual Reference **to search for eBooks such as Arts and Humanties Through the Eras or World Eras. The Boy's King Arthur. View illustration
 * History of era leading up to the short story, “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” and the selection from //Morte d’Arthur// text pp. 22-26
 * Annotate and understand short story and selection in text pp. 208-239
 * Modern adaptation/musical – //Camelot// (1967)
 * Social commentary – //Monty Python and the Holy Grail// (1975)
 * Modern adaptation – //Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade// (1989)
 * Modern history – JFK and Camelot
 * Database/eBooks **
 * "Arthurian Romance." //Arts and Humanities Through the Eras//. Ed. Edward I. Bleiberg, et al. Vol. 3: Medieval Europe 814-1450. Detroit: Gale, 2005. 169-173. //Gale Virtual Reference Library//. Web. 15 Nov. 2010.Document URL []
 * **World Eras: Medieval Europe e-Book**
 * Web Resources **
 * "How Arthur Got his Sword Excalibur" [caption under illustration]. [|http://www.archive.org/stream/boyskingarthurbe00malorich#page/n70/mode/1up]
 * "Queen Guenevere's Peril"[caption under illustration] [|http://www.archive.org/stream/boyskingarthurbe00malorich#page/n432/mode/1up]
 * Medieval Europe. []

Renaissance
Anti-Hero: Macbeth <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Web Resources
 * History of era leading up to Shakespeare’s //Macbeth// text pp. 313-322
 * Opera: //see// Verdi's Macbeth. NPR. []
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Annotate and understand Act I of Shakespeare’s //Macbeth// text pp. 322-327
 * Database/Encyclopedia **: Search the World Book Encyclopedia-a subscription database available from your library.
 * Database/eBooks **
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">World Eras: European Renaissance and Reformation e-Book
 * Macbeth.Web. <[]>.
 * Macbeth.Web. <[]>.
 * Macbeth. Web. <[]>.
 * Macbeth.Web. <[]>.
 * Macbeth (c.1005 - 1057) Web.<[]>.
 * Macbeth Navigator. Web. <[]>.
 * "Shakespeare in Scotland: What did Shakespeare Know and When did he Know it?" by Richard Wheland. Reprint. Shakespeare Oxford Society.Web. [] [Can it be that a group is organized to challenge the authorship of Shakespeare suggesting that <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford (1550 – 1604) should be credited as the author of Macbeth?].
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The Shakespeare Authorship Page. Counters the Oxfordians who challenge Shakespeare's authorship. []

[|[1]] A hero is introduced in her ordinary world… please excuse the pronouns. Of course, a hero could be a man as well as a woman.