1.  Name of your creature?  Physical Description: What does it look like, smell like, or feel like?

2.  Does your creature have any special powers, talents or abilities?

3.  Where in literature can your creature be found? For example, in books, magazines, folklore, news articles, poems, myths, etc.?

4.  What is the creature’s habitat? (Describe the area in which the creature lives.)

5.  Originations: Does the creature come from a specific geographic area, group of people, or part of the world, culture?

6.  Is your creature known for anything in particular?  Does your creature make a particular sound, sing, scream, etc.?

7.  Does your creature have any humanlike qualities? If so, what are they?  Is your creature harmful to humans? How?

8.  What does your creature eat?  How does your creature defend itself?

9.  Is your creature afraid of anything? Does it have any enemies?  Can your creature be destroyed? How?

10.  Name a movie where this creature may be found. What is its role in the movie?

11.  Besides movies, are there any modern re-imaginings of your creature (in art, literature, TV, video games, music, etc.)?

12.  Is there any new vocabulary connected to your creature? What about new definitions of existing words? (For example, “newborns” in the Twilight series refers to newly created vampires.)

13.  If there is a “modernized” version of your creature, how have they changed in Hollywood or fiction compared to the way they were portrayed initially?