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Interview Checklist
In this folklife interview checklist worksheet, students check themselves for all the components to achieve success on their folklife interview. They check for before, during, and after components.
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Writing About an Interview Worksheet
In this writing about an interview worksheet, students process the information they gathered during their folklife interviews and respond to three questions that help them to understand how they were affected by the interview.
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Student Post-Interview Review Questions
In this post-interview worksheet, students assess the content of the material they gathered during the folklife interview in order to continue with the project.
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Suggested Interview Questions
In this suggested interview questions worksheet, students discover sample questions that help them with their own folklife interview.
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That's a Good Questions Worksheet: Interview Questions
In this question worksheet, pupils generate several questions they would use to interview their music career mentor before the actual interview.
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The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life
Fourth graders are introduced to the concept of the seasonal round and how folklife traditions vary from season to season. They begin charting dates of personal interest on seasonal round calendars by starting with birthdays. Students...
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On the Job
Young scholars identify the concept of occupational folklife and learn about occupations in their community and the state. Then they collect examples of occupational folklife such as special terms, equipment, or gestures, as well as...
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Interview Folder - List of Contents
In this interview folder list of contents worksheet, students check that they have all the forms needed for conducting interviews and recording the information for their folklife assignment.
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Ethnic Folklore in Your Classroom: Traditions, Tales, and Treasures from Tijuana to Timbuktu
Students create their own festival. In this folk life lesson plan, students research their folklore history by interviewing their parents and grandparents, organizing the data found, and presenting that material to the class. Students...
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School Customs Worksheet
In this school customs learning exercise, middle schoolers answer 6 questions to enable them to consider the folklife of their school to inspire classroom discussion of the topic.
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Making Use of Fieldwork
Young scholars transcribe, analyze, and archive fieldwork and create a team project drawn from fieldwork. They brainstorm a list of reasons why preservation of collected materials is important and explore the online archives of the...
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Folk Remedy Collection Worksheet
In this folk remedy collections worksheet, students collect and record data once they interview people about remedies to various ailments.
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Letter From a Folklorist
In this letter from a folklorist worksheet, students read a letter from a folklorist to discover more about this career. The letter describes the importance of this field and aspects of the job.
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Folk Remedy Worksheet
In this folk remedy worksheet, students interview a person about remedies for ailments and categorize the remedy as a cure, treatment, preventative practice, or removal.
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Folk Remedy Worksheet
In this folk remedy worksheet, students create a database categorizing folk remedies and sayings by using the graphic organizer that has been started for them.
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Life Before Electricity
Middle schoolers describe life before the introduction of electricity, and debate the implications of the introduction of electricity on society.
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International Dance Day: Reading and Activities for ELD
A brief passage about International Dance Day, April 29, is accompanied by an array of language activities based in sound ELD practice: cloze exercise, phrase matching, word jumble, multiple choice, sequencing, interview, group...
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Archive Folder
In this archive folder worksheet, students are provided instructions for creating an archive folder for materials accumulated during the interview for their folklife assignment.
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Lomax the Songhunter
Young scholars write in their journals about the role of music in their lives. They discuss the media's use of music and watch a video clip about someone who prohibited the use of music. They create an illustration to show the folklife...
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The School: School Culture Across Louisiana
Students identify and research school customs and folk groups through discussion and interviews. Then they identify and learn that traditional culture exists within other cultural contexts, such as the academic world of school, and in...
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Archive Folder List of Contents
In this archive folder list of contents worksheet, students receive a complete list of all the materials they must turn in to complete the folklife interview assignment.
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Prove It Worksheet
In this Louisiana folk regions worksheet, students determine in which regions of the state they would be most likely to find the 33 listed traditions and provide a reason as proof for their answers.
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Brainstorming a Regional Cultural Exchange
In this folk regions worksheet, students work with a team or individually to choose at least three cultural perspectives to consider exchanging with students in another region of Louisiana. Students survey regional characteristics by...
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Questions for Traditional Musicians
In this classroom applications and fieldwork basics worksheet, students utilize the 15 interview questions listed once they locate someone in their community who plays traditional music. An oral release is included.