You are required to complete a quest. To do so, you will need to find the answer to a question given you and you will also look up other sources about you topic. What you will turn in is a paper that has your name, your question, the answer to your question, and six sources that you used to find out information about your question. These sources will be written out in MLA format.

You may use your MLA Bliss sheet for help and you may use others for help researching and with your MLA, but you must be the one who does the actual work.

The points for the paper are as follows:

• 35 points for your answer (and following directions)
• 60 points for your MLA (10 points each)
• This is 95 points. In order to get the extra five points, you must type your paper. Handwritten papers are allowed, but cannot get above a 95. Handwritten papers must be neat.

Your six sources should be broken up like this:

• ONE source MUST be a book
• ONE source MUST be a web page
• The other four sources can be from anywhere (web pages, magazines, books, other people)

We will have days in class after we get back where we will edit our papers. Having your paper on those days will be an easy 100.

This project will be counted as a half of your exam grade.

Some links you'll be interested in:

• MLA Bliss
• Sample Paper
• Sample Paper with Notes

How to do that on the computer:

On the Works Cited page, it is sometimes hard to indent the second line of a source. To do so, type you source and let it text wrap as normal. When you are finished, move the cursor to the second line and hit ENTER once. Nothing will appear to have happened. Then hit TAB and it should move the line automatically. If you have a third line, do the same. Sometimes just by hitting ENTER, it will automatically indent it to match the second line.

Also on the works cited page, when you type a web address, it tends to make it blue, small, and underlined. You do not want this. You have several options. You can disable the autoformat for hyperlinks, but this can be hard if you are not computer saavy. The other ways are to act after it makes it blue. As soon as it makes it blue, you can hit CTRL-Z. Also you can right click the hyperlink and select REMOVE HYPERLINK.

Here are the questions that you picked in class:

• Where did the practice of carving Jack-o-Lanterns come from?
• How did Coca Cola influence Santa Claus?
• What is Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer’s connection to department stores?
• Did Mohawks wear Mohawks?
• How do astronauts take care of body wastes?
  
• Why is Coca Cola have the word “classic” as a part of its name?
• What makes a rattle snake’s tail rattle?
• What is the origin of the name of the soft drink, Dr. Pepper?
• Who was the model for the Statue of Liberty?
  
• Why do camels have humps?
• Why do audiences yell “boo” when they don’t like a performance?
• Why is an Adam’s apple called an Adam’s apple?
• Why aren’t there any “Grade B” eggs?
  
• Did Pokemon cause massive seizures in Japan?
• Why do we say “God bless you” when someone sneezes?
• What is the difference between a fairy, a pixie, and a sprite?
• How can you get a wish from a banshee?
• Why do churches have steeples?
  
• Can flying snakes really fly?
• Are skunks grossed out by their own smell?
• Can people actually spontaneously combust?