Here 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 .
- 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 - Folktales and Fables
Grade: 2, 3, 4
Subject: Literature
- Cultural Unity Through Folklore
From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. - Saskatchewan’s First Peoples
Teachers! Help us make this site more useful to you. If you’ve created a lesson plan that works with the material on the American Folklore site, we’d love to publish it here! E-mail us at webmaster@americanfolklore.net and be sure to put "Folklore lesson plan" in the subject line. |
