Process

Process

Task 1. Check out a few of the sites below to gain a better understanding of how urban legends are different than other tales and stories.

 * ===[|Urban Legends Uncovered]===
 * ===**[|About.com "About Urban Legends"]**===
 * ===**[|Snopes.com Definition]**===

===Task 2. Who is "Bloody Mary"? Click here to write your knowledge of the story you may have heard, where you heard the legend (city and state). Then read others' posts and respond to at least two of your classmates responses. Remember to keep it appropriate and according to the Terms of Acceptable Use. Share your knowledge and see how one widely-known urban legend varies from region to region. ===

Check out this traditional urban legend:

 * ===__[|Hey...Where'd She Go?]__===

Anything sound familiar?
Let's examine some characteristics of urban legends, as discussed in class and found at About.com: Accordingly, a classic urban legend will exhibit most or all of the following characteristics:
 * Common characteristics**
 * It's a realistically accurate narrative that is //retold// NOT created.
 * It's alleged to be true.
 * It's just possibly proven (sometimes just barely proven) enough to be believed.
 * Its truth is unproven.
 * It's of spontaneous (or unfounded) origin.
 * It varies in the telling.
 * It uses fear to evoke believability.
 * It circulates by being passed from individual to individual, either orally or in written form (e.g., via fax, photocopy or email).
 * It's attributed to //__a trustworthy secondhand source__// (e.g., "a friend of a friend," "my sister's accountant," etc.).

**Task 3.** **Complete a column on your "Characteristics of Urban Legends" Sheet.**

**How about this Baltimore, Maryland urban legend? What makes it fit the criteria of an urban legend?** **Task 4. Complete a column on your "Characteristics of Urban Legends" Sheet.**
 * **[|Black Aggie]**

(Do not forget to add to your "Characteristics of Urban Legends" Sheet!)
 * Task 5. Examine these urban legends from different regions of the country:**


 * = ==//**Region** //== ||= ==**Web Link**== ||= ==**Alternate Link if Blocked**== ||=  ||
 * = ==//**Virginia**//== ||= ==[|The Bunnyman Bridge]== ||= ==The Bunnyman Download== ||=  ||
 * = ==//**New Jersey**//== ||= ==[|The Jersey Devil]== ||= ==The Jersey Devil== ||=  ||
 * = ==//**Kentucky**//== ||= ==[|A Mother's Love]== ||= == == ||=  ||
 * = ==//**Georgia**//== ||= ==[|One More Room]== ||= == == ||=  ||
 * = ==//**Maryland**//== ||= ==[|The Goatman]== ||= ==The Goatman== ||=  ||
 * Task 6. Select the regional urban legend you found to be most likely to be true or believed by the readers of The Cecil Whig.**


 * Task 7. Compose your pre-writing ideas in the Story Map. Don't skip any of the characteristics listed at**[| Urban Legends Uncovered]

**Task 9. Click the following link to visit our digital databases to research your decade (1980's, 1970's, 1960's, 1950's, etc.)**:
 * Task 8. Choose the decade you wish your legend to occur during and the following information:**
 *  Type of car || Songs on radio ||
 * Type of clothing/proof ||  Event being attended ||

[|CCPS Digital Databases]

 * Task 10. Add these details to your story map based on the Revision Check.**

Alternative: You may create your urban legend using Powerpoint or Notebook.
 * Task 11. Have a classmate approve your pre-writing before opening "Comic Life " on your computer.

Task 12. Create and publish your urban legend based on the rubric found on the Evaluation Page. **


 * Emails are welcome through wikispace comments or email at lstill@ccps.org. **



 