Paul Bunyan Crosses the Digital Divide

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Paul Bunyan Crosses theDigital Divide

• By Vanessa Wallace and Shelly White

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PASS Covered by Tall Tales
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PASS Covered by Tall Tales
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PASS Covered by Tall Tales
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Tall Tale Elements

• Folktale
• American invention
• Told as if it were all true
• Heroes and heroines bigger than life
• Heroes and heroines sometimes real life
• Hyperboles
• Often explains natural phenomenon

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Hyperboles

• http//www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/feature/tallta
  les/

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Origins of Paul Bunyan

• 1906
• James MacGillivray-newspaper reporter
• Oscada Press
• Amalgam of lumberjacks

• William B. Laughead
• Advertising pamphlets-Red River Lumber Company

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Paul Bunyan Takes Up Surfing

• http//www.animatedtalltales.com/launch Flap Jack
  Frenzy
• http//www.brainerd.com/pbtrail/tale.html Giant
  Lumberjack
• http//www.americanfolklore.net/paulbunyan.html
  Various Paul Bunyan stories

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The Bunyans and Google Earth
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Extensions of Google Earth

• Assign US geographical features
• Students research features
• Students create a tall tale explaining feature
• Students add their feature to class Google Earth
  map with a hyperlink to their story
• Post Tall Tale Google Earth on school website

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Extensions of Google Earth II

• Students look for other landform features or
  famous Americans
• Students research features or people
• Students add their feature to class Google Earth
  map with a hyperlink to their story

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Paul Bunyan Multiple Intelligences

• Center-Matrix
• http//shellywhite.net/PowerPoint/Narrative20Poem
  .ppt Narrative Poem
• http//shellywhite.net/PowerPoint/Bio20Poem.ppt
  Bio Poem
• http//shellywhite.net/PowerPoint/Predict-o-Gram.p
  pt Predictogram

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Tall Tale Activities Beyond the Divide

• Hyperbole Sentences
• Hyperbole Postcards
• Original Tall Tale-Natural Phenomenon or Modern
  Heroes
• Tall Tale Tell-Off
• Comparisons of Tall Tales

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More Activities

• Search for Figurative Language
• John Henry Races
• Readers Theater
• Poetry Writing
• Sequencing Events
• Graphic Organizers
• Commercials-Jingles

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Suggested Book List

• Abigail Muchamore by Lois Grambling Mike Fink by
  Steven Kellogg
• Alligator Sue by Sharon Arms
• Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
• Boss of the Plains The Hat That Won the West by
  Laurie Carlson and Holly Meade
• The Bunyans by Audrey Wood
• Paul Bunyan by Steven Kellogg
• Paul Bunyan Swings His Axe
• Paul Bunyan by Carol Ottolenghi
• Casey Jones by Allan Drummond
• Clever Beatrice by Margaret Wiley
• Davy Crockett Saves the World by Rosalyn Schanzer
• Feliciana Feydra LeRoux A Cajun Tall Tale by
  Tynia Thomassie and Cat Bowman Smith
• Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellogg

• Johnny Appleseed by Reeve Lindbergh
• Pecos Bill by Steven Kellogg
• John Henry by Ezra Jack Keats
• Pecos Bill by Bill Balcziak
• Pecos Bill by Brian Gleeson
• Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by
  Steven Kellogg
• Shoeshine Whittaker by Helen Ketteman
• Steamboat Annie and the Thousand-Pound Catfish by
  Catherine Wright
• Swamp Angel by Anne Isaacs and Paul O. Zelinsky
• A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big
  Heart by Pat Mora
• The Tale of Willie Monroe by Alan Schroeder
  Doucet
• Thunder Rose by Jerdine Nolen

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Resources

• Allen, Mary Beth. Guided Comprehension Helping
  Students Transact with Text, East Stroudsburg
  University, 2004.
• Disney. Tall Tale The Unbelievable Adventure.
  Buena Vista Home Video, California.
• Disney. American Legends. Buena Vista Home Video,
  California.
• Moore, JoEllen. American Tall Tales. Evan-Moor
  Educational Publishers, California, 1987.

• Moore, Jo Ellen. Literature Pockets Tall Tales.
  Evan-Moor, Educational Publishers, California,
  2002.
• Pugliano-Martin, Carol. Read-Aloud Plays Tall
  Tales. Scholastic, New York, 2000.
• Sanderson, Jeannette. 12 Tall Tale Mini-Books.
  Scholastic, New York, 2002.
• West, Tracey. Teaching Tall Tales. Scholastic
  Professional Books, New York, 1998.
• http//shellywhite.net