Paul Bunyan Tall Tale

A tall tale is a made up story where you think of a fun and interesting way some natural feature was made.

#1 Read some Paul Bunyan Stories

http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/paul-bunyan/

http://www.loving2learn.com/SuperSubjects/ReadingandLanguage/FavoriteStories2/TallTales/TheStoryofPaulBunyan.aspx

#2

After reading the stories answer the following questions:

How did Paul make the following?

Mississippi River

The Grand Canyon

The Finger Lakes

The Great Lakes

The Bay of Fundy

The Black Hills

A Thousand Lakes

Niagara Falls

http://mentalfloss.com/article/51199/11-landmarks-%E2%80%9Cbuilt%E2%80%9D-paul-bunyan

Now we are going to do A Paul Bunyan WebQuest

http://zunal.com/introduction.php?w=138154

Pick one of the landmarks you visited to write a Paul Bunyan story

Paragraph 1- Describe Paul, How big, strong ect

paragraph 2- Tell about a problem Paul has

Paragraph 3- Tell how Paul created the Landmark to solve the problem