Slides about Multigenre Folklore Assignment

Major Concept The best topics for writing have a strong personal connection.

Regretfully, most research papers are boring for students to write and painful for teachers to read.

Topic Options for the Multigenre Folklore Report  Community  Local Interest Group  Family

Reports will contain both:  Primary interview information from two different people.  Secondary textual information from academic articles, books, websites, newspapers etc.

COMMUNITY HISTORY:

LOVELAND CASTLE

COMMUNITY HISTORY

CINERAMA

LOCAL INTEREST GROUP

MILITARY NURSES

LOCAL INTEREST GROUP

HOSPICE VOLUNTEERS

Hospice Table of Contents:  Collage with quotations from hospice volunteers and patients.  Poem--Patient Two  Phone Log  Menu--Clyde’s Bar-B-Cue Barn  Diary of a hospice nurse  Birthday Party Invitation  Obituary- Timmy Clark  Help Wanted Ad  Conclusion- letter from a hospice volunteer

A Local Interest Group Informant Can Be:  A friend who belongs to club like Civil War re-enactment.  A neighbor who has an unusual job like a mobile dog groomer.  A community member who volunteers like art museum

docents.  A hobby group who restores old cars.  A person who has a booth at a local farmer's market.  A coach for a children's soccer team.  An elderly person who belongs to a senior sewing circle.  A home nurse who visits elderly patients.

FAMILY

SMALL PLANE BUILDER

Wings on Dreams A Glimpse into Innovation John Dyke and the Dyke Delta

Wings on Dreams

FAMILY

COAL MINER

FAMILY

NAVY HERO

Huge writing projects are frightening for both teachers and students.  Projects will be broken down into smaller parts with

frequent deadlines.

 All of the work will be started in class.  Writers must have a topic that is important to them.

Brainstorming sheets are a great prewriting strategy.

Brainstorming sheets should have lots of prompts which help students to think of more ideas than they might have thought of independently.

The goal of brainstorming is to generate a bazillion ideas.

If the prompt does not apply you, CHANGE IT to be about something that fits your life.

Instead of family, the questions could be answered for friends, neighbors, teachers, or pets.

Instead of community, the questions could be about where you work, visit, or vacation.

Instead of a group, the questions could be about someone you know who has a hobby, collection, or once did something strange.

PAIR SHARE IDEAS  Tell which type of folklore project you are considering:

family, community, or group.  Tell what stories you know about.  Tell which people you could interview.  Tell about another possible topic.  Ask questions

Stories that work well for this assignment:  Have local, cooperative, talkative informants.  Pique your interest.  Tell stories that can inspire, educate, or entertain.  Represent people, places, and issues that are important to you.

Ask other family and friends to tell you about good stories that they know.

Take some time to think about what story you want to work on this term.

What is Folklore ?

FOLK LORE

local people literary story

 Shared Culture of a Group:

Neighborhood, Occupation, Family, Hobby, Ethnicity, etc.  Traditions and Customs.

How can the stories be told respectfully?

Misconceptions about folklore:  It is only about fairy tales, vampires, or weird stuff.  The story has to be something worthy of national news or already written in a book.  The story has to be one that is frequently retold.