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10 Advanced Learning from Legends Worksheet

Part 1: The Legend
1. For this assignment, I chose to research
2. Locate TWO credible sources with information about your chosen folktale or legend. Include the citation information (author,
title, website/book/magazine, date published, URL address):
a. Source 1:
b. Source 2:

Part 2: Research
Using the sources above, research your selected folktale and complete this chart using evidence from your sources.

Literary Element Evidence Source Citation

Paste at least two pieces of evidence directly Did the information come from
from your sources. Source 1 or Source 2? Specify.
Character Description
What does your legend:
 look like?
 act like?
 accomplish?
Setting
What is the:
 historical context?
 place?
 time?
 social environment?
Conflict
 Is it character vs character,
nature, self, society,
supernatural, technology?
 Who or what is the
antagonist?

Part 3: Plan a Narrative

You’ve researched a folklore legend and learned a lot about him or her. Now you will take that information to help you plan
an original narrative based on your researched folklore legend. While you aren’t writing the narrative, you are planning its
plot structure. When finished, a map of your potential story should be easy to identify! Remember, you are planning an
original narrative based off your selected folklore legend—the idea for this narrative should be completely original and not
summarized or borrowed from a different source.

Plot/
Write at least one sentence per section. Use specific details that, when read by your instructor, will paint a complete
Literary picture of a story you’d tell based on your folktale or legend. *You are not copying the original folktale.
Element
Exposition
Characters
Setting
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action

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Theme

Rubric
On Target Almost There Needs Improvement
Part 1: 10-8 points 7-6 points 5-0 points
The Legend and Sources  I selected a folktale  I selected a folktale or  I may not have
or legend from the legend from the list selected a folktale or
list provided provided legend from the list
 I located two credible  I located two sources, provided
sources based on but they may lack  I am missing
their origin and credibility or are credible sources
purpose and cited missing source
each source correctly information to
determine credibility
Part 2: 20-16 points 15-12 points 11-0 points
Research  I completed each  I attempted to  I am missing the
section of the complete each evidence portion of
research chart by section of the the chart, or my
including two research chart, but evidence is
interesting pieces of may be missing unconnected to the
evidence from my evidence from one character, setting, or
sources that reflect or more sections conflict
character, setting,  I may be missing  I am missing my
and conflict some source sources in the last
 I listed the source of information in the column
the information in last column  May have major
the last column  Minor errors in errors in grammar,
 No major errors in grammar, punctuation, and
grammar, punctuation, and spelling
punctuation, and spelling
spelling
Part 3: 20-16 points 15-12 points 11-0 points
The Narrative  I thoroughly and  I attempted to plan a  May be missing the
insightfully planned narrative based on narrative chart
each section of the my folktale or legend,  I may have copied an
narrative planner, but may be missing existing story about
and my chart some elements or my folktale or legend
provides a solid idea misidentified into the narrative
of what a story about elements chart
my folktale or legend  I may not have  May have major
would look like provided a complete errors in grammar,
 No major errors in picture of what this punctuation, and
grammar, narrative would look spelling
punctuation, and like
spelling  Minor errors in
grammar,
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spelling

02.10Advanced Learning from Legends Completed Sample

Part 1: The Legend
1. For this assignment, I chose to research “Rip Van Winkle.”
2. Locate TWO credible sources with information about your chosen folktale or legend. Include the citation information (author, title,
website/book/magazine, date published, URL address):
a. Source 1: Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Rip Van Winkle". Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Mar.
2021, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Rip-Van-Winkle-short-story-by-Irving. Accessed 20 October
2021.
b. Source 2: “Rip Van Winkle.” National Museum of American History,
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_324773. Accessed 20 October 2021.

Part 2: Research
Using the sources above, research your selected folktale and complete this chart using evidence from your sources.
Literary Element Evidence Source Citation
Paste at least two pieces of evidence directly Did the information come from
from your sources. Source 1 or Source 2? Specify.
Character Description  When his wife, Dame Van Winkle, Source 2
became especially verbally abusive, he
What does your legend: would go to this small local inn and sit
 look like? on the benches in front of it with his
 act like? group of friends.
Source 1
 accomplish?  Rip Van Winkle is an amiable farmer
who wanders into the Catskill
Mountains, where he comes upon a
group of dwarfs playing ninepins.
Setting  Though set in the Dutch culture of pre- Source 1
Revolutionary War New York state, the
What is the: story of Rip Van Winkle is based on a
 historical context? German folktale.
 place? Source 2
 The gothic story Rip Van Winkle tells of
 time? an ordinary 19th century man who lives
 social environment? in the Dutch Kaatskills (currently the
Catskills of New York).
Conflict  He struggles with his nagging wife, Source 2
Dame Van Winkle, and in an effort to
 Is it character vs character, escape her on an especially bad day,
nature, self, society, he flees to the woods with his dog and
supernatural, technology? his gun.
Source 1
 Who or what is the  When Rip returns to town, he finds that
antagonist? everything is changed: his wife is dead,
his children are grown, and George
Washington’s portrait hangs in place
of King George III’s.

Part 3: Plan a Narrative

*Note: This sample follows the short story of “Rip Van Winkle.” Your narrative should be created by you.
Plot/
Write at least one sentence per section. Use specific details that, when read by your instructor, will paint a complete
Literary picture of a story you’d tell based on your folktale or legend. *You are not copying the original folktale.
Element
Exposition We are introduced to Rip’s village, his house, Rip, and his wife. We learn they don’t have a great relationship
and that Rip is loved by all.
Characters The characters are Rip Van Winkle (protagonist), Dame Van Winkle (antagonist), the small men in the woods,
and the old stranger.
Setting The story begins with America under British rule and ends with George Washington as president of the United
States. It begins in a small village in the Kaatskills, moves to some mysterious woods, and ends back in the

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Rising Action In an effort to escape his wife, Rip ventures off into the woods with a stranger and encounters a curious group
of small men. He drinks something they made and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakes, he thinks only a
night has passed.
Climax Rip decides to go back into town, where life has changed dramatically.

Falling Action The villagers think Rip, who is now aged and unrecognizable, is a spy. Thankfully, his children and an old
villager named Peter realize it is Rip Van Winkle.
Resolution Rip goes to live with his daughter. His son has turned out just like him. Now, Rip sits outside of the inn and
tells his story to all who will listen.
Theme It is always better to face your problems instead of running away from them.

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