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Using the
video on Jack Longstreet,
"The Last of the Desert frontiersmen," students will
study how legends are created and how to distinguish between facts
and opinions.
Students will:
- discuss
a character portrayal as hero or desperado, using facts, supported
inferences, and opinion.
- What makes
a legend?
- What makes
a folk hero? The stories told about them.
- Are folk
heroes always "good guys"? Review previous lesson
on facts, supported inferences and opinions as ways of gathering
historical information. Tell them they're going to hear a series
of stories about a folk hero and ask them to use those stories
as a basis for deciding if he is a good guy or a bad guy.
View overhead
(Attachment 4: Jack Longstreet) or write on the board, "The
stranger who rode in from nowhere. The man with the long hear,
the severed ear and the notched gun and nobody knew who he really
was."
Ask students
if they can picture what kind of man he might be.
To
give students a specific responsibility while viewing, ask them
to listen and raise their hands when they hear how his ear was
severed.
Using character
sketch organizer and table of hero/desperado, write about Jack
Longstreet. You can tell about him. You can defend whether he
was a hero or a desperado. You can make up a new story about
him.
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What
details will you want to include?
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How
will you show the kind of man he is?
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What
will you use for a good opening or lead?
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How
will you conclude?
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Compare the two folk legends you have just viewed. Using
a Venn diagram, in the intersecting portion.
write the things they have in common. In the other parts,
write the things that make them different.
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Research
and discuss other folk tales from Nevada, the U.S. or around
the world.
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Have
students write and illustrate their own folk tales.
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