Folklore Lesson Plans at American Folklore.

	Folklore Lesson Plans & Teacher Resources
Below is a list of lesson plans that have been created using stories from the American Folklore site or appropriate for use with the Spooky Series by S.E. Schlosser.

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Storytelling
Use with Spooky New England.
Grades: 4 - 5
Subjects: Language Arts
Writing: A Lesson Plan on Beginnings
Use with Spooky South.
Grades: 3 - 5
Subjects: Language Arts
Washington Irving and Storytelling in America
Use with Spooky New York, which contains retellings of "The Galloping Hessian" and "Henry Hudson and the Kaatskill Gnomes". These stories were used by Washington Irving as the basis for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Grades: K - 12
Subjects: Language Arts, History
Ten Characters from American Folklore
Grades: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12, Advanced
Subjects: Arts & Humanities, Literature, Educational Technology, Social Sciences, U.S. History, Regions/Cultures.
Playing with American Folk Heroes of the Nineteenth Century
Use with AmericanFolklore.net website -- John Henry, Casey Jones, Yankee Peddler
Subject: Literature, Folklore

American Folklore: Tall Tales Unit
Grades: Elementary
Subject: Literature.
Appalachian Mountain Humor: Folklore
Grades: Junior High
Subjects: Appalachian Heritage

What is folklore?
Discover the differences between myths, legends, folktales, fables, and more.

Archives of Folklore
This site hosts a complete month-by-month record of all the posts made to the internet's longest-running discussion-list on folklore, from 1991 to the present.
African-American Almanac: Folktales
Read a large number of folktales.
African American Folklore Resources
Questia has books and journal articles on African-American folklore.
American Folklore Center
From the Library of Congress.
American Life Histories
Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project.
Folklife and Fieldword
Published at the Library of Congress web site.
Folklore and Legends
The place to discover the interesting and beautiful myths and legends behind every day things.
Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms
Published at the Library of Congress web site.
Journal of American Folklore
From the American Folklore Society.
Timeless Myths
TimelessMyths was formed to offer a unique reference point on old urban myths, legends & tales. They look at old myths and legends, investigate their origins and speculate on just how true they really are.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1944). A Treasury of American Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1955). A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore. New York: American Legacy Press.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1965) A Treasury of New England Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1953). A Treasury of Railroad Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1949) A Treasury of Southern Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers.

Botkin, B.A. (Ed.) (1975) A Treasury of Western Folklore. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc.

Coffin, T. P. and Cohen, H. (1966). Folklore in America. New York: Doubleday & AMP, Company, Inc.

Dolch, E.W. and Dolch, M. P. Stories from Hawaii. Champaign, IL:Garrad Publishing Co.

Dorson, R.M. (1973). America in Legend. New York: Pantheon Books.

Editors of Life. (1961). The Life Treasury of American Folklore. New York: Time Incorporated.

Flanagan, J.T. and Hudson, A.P. (1958). The American Folk Reader. New York: A.S. Barnes & Co

Leach, M. (1958). The Rainbow Book of American folk Tales and Legends. New York: The World Publishing Company.

Polley, J. (Ed.). (1978). American Folklore and Legend. New York: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.

Schlosser, S.E. (2003). Spooky New England Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press.

Schlosser, S.E. (2005). Spooky New York Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press.

Schlosser, S.E. (2004). Spooky South Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press.

Schlosser, S.E. (2004). Spooky Southwest Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press.

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Folklore Lesson Plans & Teacher Resources