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Folklore Courses for Fall 2008

ANT 221 Introduction to Folklore taught by Karen Miller

ANT 426
Native American Folklore (online) taught by Pauleena MacDougall

ANT 490
Public Sector Folklore taught by Kathleen Mundell


Projects

Maine Papermakers

The Story of the Eastern Fine Paper Mill, Brewer, Maine

"Writing on the Wall" video premiered

Women in Maine's Paper Industry  1880 - 2006

Brewer Middle School's Mill History project

 

Maine Folklife Center


Hot Biscuits and Shanty Boys: The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide

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The Curriculum Guide provides step-by-step guides for training students in the art of collecting oral histories.
The Maine Folklife Center Curriculum Guide focuses on bringing the resources and skills of oral history and folklife research to school teachers and students. This guide will allow teachers to enliven Maine studiesn curricula by personalizing history and creating new connections between students and their communities.

The guide provides a variety of exercises focused around turn-of-the-century work in the Maine lumberwoods, to help students imagine what it must have really been like to live and work "back then." Other sections include exercises based upon traditional games discussed in the Maine Folklife Center archives, and the relevance of folksongs to everyday life. The Guide comes complete with a cassette or CD of lumbering songs to be used in these exercises.

The Curriculum Guide also provides teachers with step-by-step guides for training their students in the methods of collecting oral histories about their families and communities, including how to set up an interview, how to conduct an interview, and how to archive the materials generated.

The lesson plans in this Curriculum Guide allow teacher to fulfill State of Maine Learning Results guidelines for a variety of disciplines, not only social studies, and it includes a section that explains this fulfillment.

Spiral bound, printed to order. Please specify cassette or CD.
$19.95 plus sales tax.

Inspire your students to collect oral history and folklore from their own communities!

Help students think about Maine's past in new ways!

Fulfill State of Maine Learning Results through innovative ready-to-use lessons!


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Maine Folklife Center
5773 South Stevens, Room 112B
Orono, ME 04469-5773
Phone (207)581-1891 | Fax: (207)581-1823
Email: folklife@maine.edu

 


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