ONCE UPON A MOUNTAIN TALE Book

Item No: 21619

$26.95

Eight Jack & Grandfather Tales, stories and tales by Linda High and illustrated by Carol Kindt.

Bring story-telling, art, music, and drama to your classroom with these versatile Appalachian tales with integrated fiddle tunes and folk songs. Students create puppets or masks to dramatize the stories as you read them aloud, singing the short songs and improvising story actions or sound effects on unpitched instruments.

Five stories highlight character names to play or move to the rhythm. Two add improvisaton on certain descriptive phrases. One has a spoken phrase immediately added to the song. 

8 stories in 8 units, with musical, dramatic and art options for all.  Grades K-2.
Paperback

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Contents:

  • Jack and the Robbers (Wanna Come Along? from Cripple Creek)
  • Jack and Ol' Mossyfoot (Whoomity Whop from Nickety Nackety)
  • Jack and the Big Ol' Rock (Travelin' Song from Lilly of the Valley)
  • The Three Sillies  (As Silly as Jack from Weevily Wheat)
  • Jack and the Northwest Wind  (Magic Makes It So from Lolly Too Dum)
  • Jack and the Tale Without End  (The Mouse Gnawed In from WIsh That Gal Was Mine)
  • Grandfather Tales:
    • • The Green Gourd (from Bile Them Cabbage Down)
    • • Soap! Soap! Soap!  (from Old Joe Clark)
  • Puppet Drawings
  • Mask Drawings
  • Backdrop Drawings
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