Tall Tales Webquest - Cherokee County Schools
Tall Tales Webquest - Cherokee County Schools
Tall Tales Webquest - Cherokee County Schools
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3. How do these stories teach a lesson that can be related to our everyday lives?<br />
4. How can we create our own stories to teach a moral lesson?<br />
The Task<br />
Students, your first mission is to complete a scavenger hunt through the internet to<br />
learn as much as you can about the subject in question. Then you will use that<br />
knowledge to design your own story that is a fable. You will use this story to<br />
design your film, which can be created through claymation, or a film with your<br />
classmates as actors in your play. You will have a chance to take your creation into<br />
movie maker or adobe premier and add special effects and credits.<br />
The Process<br />
Mission #1 The Scavenger Hunt<br />
Directions: Read each question carefully and click on the website link. You<br />
must read the story on the website and answer the questions from the<br />
scavenger hunt. (I have printed a copy of this scavenger hunt out for you<br />
to fill in!)<br />
1. In this <strong>Tall</strong> Tale, Paul Bunyan could holler so loud he scared all the _______ out of<br />
the rivers and streams.<br />
http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/me5.html<br />
2. In this <strong>Tall</strong> Tale, Pecos Bill was only known to have been thrown once in his whole<br />
cowboy career. That was when he was riding a ___________.<br />
http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ks2.html<br />
3. In this Fable, what should the farmer and his wife do the next time they hear a rooster<br />
trying to wake them up?
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