Peace Corps
Peace Corps: A Togolese Tale: The Big Fire
Through this lesson learners will come to appreciate how folk tales express the culture in which they were derived through the writing.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Birbal's Trip to Paradise [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of Steve William's version of Birbal's Trip to Paradise. Six speaking parts are needed in this performance.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Cinderella V.1 [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of the fairy tale, Cinderella V.1, is provided on this script. Nine character roles are needed in this performance.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Jack, the Cunning Thief [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of the Celtic fairy tale, Jack, the Cunning Thief, is provided on this script. Seventeen character roles are needed in this performance.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Martina the Beautiful Cockroach: A Cuban Folktale
A reader's theater script for Carmen Agra Deedy's version of a Cuban folktale, Martina the Beautiful Cockroach is provided on these pages. Seven character roles are needed in this activity. While mostly written in English, Spanish...
Other
California State University: Folklore: The Traditional Ballad Index
The traditional ballad index is an extensive bibliography of folk ballads. There is some summary information.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
Using international folklore as subject matter, lead your students in a unit to research literary forms and foreign countries. There is a printout available for instruction and assessment.
Other
Enjoying "Hamlet"
Introduction to Shakespeare and "Hamlet." Includes introduction, scene by scene synopsis with elaborate illustrations. Also background information concerning historical Hamlet, Saxo Grammaticus. "Historia Danica," Belleforest's...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Myths, Folktales and Fairy Tales
Collection of folktales, myths, and fairy tales from around the world. Scholastic provides lesson plans and activities to help students understand and even create their own myth, folktale, or fairy tale.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Fairy Tales Around the World
This collection of activities gives students a chance to discover and compare fairy tales from around the world. It provides a wealth of links to resources, printable diagrams, discussion questions and the like.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning:american Lit and Comp:their Eyes Were Watching God: Folklore
This lesson focuses on folklore including defining it, its alternative title of local color, and discussing its use in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It provides two handouts: "Folklore in Their Eyes Were Watching...
Other
Center for Story and Symbol: Joseph Campbell a Scholar's Life
A biography of Joseph Campbell, a leading academic in the study of myth. Discusses his books and his ideas about myth and folklore. His work was a big influence on filmmaker George Lucas for the screenplay of the first Star Wars movie.
Other
Philadelphia Folksong Society
Information about festivals and about folk song background plus support for furthering education about folklore.
Other
Seattle Folklore Society
This site is for the preservation and awareness of folk art and music and links that will give more education to folklore.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Retelling the African Folktale Abiyoyo
This lesson students will listen to an African folktale, Abiyoyo. Students will engage in role-playing to retell Abiyoyo through the use of reader's theater.
Other
The Brothers Grimm: Online Story Collection
Read the online text versions of many of the Grimm Brothers' stories and fairy tales such as Cinderella, Three Little Pigs, Snow White, and many, many more.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: Americo Paredes 1915 1999
Students of Paredes music and folklore can find his biography, a bibliography, photos, works, and newsclips of this Mexican American folklorist, teacher, writer, poet, and musician.
Other
Milwaukee Public Museum: Indian Country: Oral Tradition
The Milwaukee Public Museum provides this introduction to the Native American oral tradition and oral literature of the Great Lakes region. Describes common themes and characters, including trickster characters and windingo (ice...
Encyclopedia Mythica
Encyclopedia Mythica
The home page of Encyclopedia Mythica from which you can access its full range of content on myths from throughout the world. Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Japanese, and Chinese mythology are the site's most popular areas, but many...
Sacred Text Archive
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by "Aunt Naomi"
This is the index page to the full text of a vivid collecton of Jewish folklore that entertains and teaches. This book, originally published in 1919, is based on tales from the Talmud and Midrash. While some of the themes are familiar...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Stories in Quilts (Lesson Plan)
Lesson plan that uses quilts as narrative art to tell stories through pictures. Quilts can also be used to learn about historical or cultural events.
Library of Congress
Loc: Billy the Kid: Perspectives on an Outlaw
This lesson relates to the westward movement in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Students analyze the role that gunfighters played in the settlement of the West and distinguish between their factual...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore
In this lesson plan, students will consider Helpful Animals and Compassionate Humans in Folklore. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Folklore in Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.