Creating Our Own Tall Tale Characters

Second grade students are finishing the school year reading and watching tall tales, comparing and contrasting character traits and plot points. Students talked about Paul Bunyan, John Henry, and Pecos Bill, noting things like:

     •  the men were stronger, bigger, or faster than others

     •  they often had "sidekicks"

     •  they were in contests 

     •  they get credit for making things in nature.

With these things in mind, students then created their own tall tale characters using the handout below:

Access the handout HERE.

Once students had made decisions about their characters, they accessed our class FlipGrid to record their information. While students had used FlipGrid before, this was the first time they independently recorded themselves. You can see part of our grid below and click on the link in the caption for the full list of responses:

CLICK HERE to access the full grid.

Enjoy the students' responses--their creativity and voice definitely shines through!