Urban Legends

For this creative writing worksheet, students sort through old pictures and discuss the characterization in each. Students create characters, a setting, and their own tall tale or urban legend based on the pictures.

Students investigate urban legends. In this literature lesson, students discuss facts and fiction related to urban legends. The website sopes.com is recommended.

  High schoolers collaborate to write a story reflecting Urban Legends. In this language arts lesson, students work together to write a story reflecting folklore. They incorporate some of their own ideas into their work.    

Students discuss urban legends in a circle. In this literature activity, students share ideas about urban legends in a fun environment. A rubric is provided with this activity.

Students explore the evacuation of New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. Using the internet, they research stories they may have heard and verify a story's authenticity. Students discuss rumors and urban legends. Given a worksheet,...

Irony, hyperbole, and other rhetorical devices are at play in this presentation about urban legends. Several examples of urban legends help to clarify the analysis, making it valuable for those who have a hard time wrapping their mind...

Students identify and interpret what tall tales, urban legends, and cyberlore are and to find them in their own lives. They practice telling and listening to these types of tales and explore why people tell them. Students also identify...

Students examine the narrative forms and tales unique to the U.S.-Mexico border. They discuss the possible sociological meanings of these stories, and then write their own versions to demonstrate that they explain the forms.

Students complete literary analysis for modern fables or urban legends. For this modern fables lesson, students listen to an urban legend and discuss it. Students then research urban legends online and write their own urban legend.

Students examine the study of human geography and how resources influence population density. They define culture, and in small groups create a collage that illustrates and defines either population distribution, urbanization, cultural...