Folktale Type 1676B: Clothing Caught in Graveyard & Other Tales

This project was created by Ms. Connell's grade 8-5 and 8-6 Language Arts classes at Birchwood Intermediate School. The students learned about folktales in form and content. Student read and studied various folktales including The Graveyard Wager, retold by Jan Harold Brunvand, and The Fork in the Graveyard, written by Julie V. Watson who is considered one of Prince Edward Island's best-known authors. Both of these stories may be identified as "Folktale Type 1676B: Clothing Caught in Graveyard" in The Types of the Folktale, which is a standard index of folk-narrative plots. Students listened to an Island storyteller in the Birchwood Library Resource Center. Then students wrote contemporary adaptations of the folktale, and they drew illustrations to compliment their tales. This project includes student-created web pages of their folktales, an art gallery of scanned illustrations, a digital video of a folktale, a page featuring the guest storyteller, interactive puzzles, digital photos of the students hard at work, personal responses from students themselves about their work, and visitor feedback. Please use the blue buttons on the left to navigate our site.