Tall-Tales

In this unit, we will look at some popular tall-tales. Please review the power point presentation below and take Cornell-Notes as you go. The essential question for your notes today (copy this to the top of your notes) - "What can folktales (tall tales) teach us about life?"

Next, you and a partner will do some research on a legendary character from a folktale. See the directions here: ...Please pull the directions into Notability for future reference.

Here are links for all of the movies on Learn360 and pdf's of the historical information. Pull the pdf's into Notability to mark the text. You'll need the student login (ems_student) and password (l360) to view the videos when you get to the Learn360 website:

Paul Bunyon:

Historical Account: 

[|Paul Bunyan Video]

John Henry:

Historical Account: 

[|John Henry Video]

Glooskap:

 Historical Account: 

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[|Glooskap Video]

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%; line-height: 0px;">Johnny Appleseed:

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 180%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">Historical Account: <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Johnny Appleseed Video]