Scope and Contents note The project is a lesson plan for teaching a unit about folklore in secondary school English classes. Topics covered in the lesson plan include American folklore, verbal lore, material lore, family lore, folktales, myths, legends, and urban legends. Includes folklore vocabulary and definitions as well as samples of personal experience narratives, folktales, myths, legends, urban legends, and superstitions. Teaching materials include handouts, worksheets, and transparencies. Created by Megan...

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This project collected stories from a mission reunion about the mission. The author gives a detailed account of the different storyteller types found within the narratives. The stories followed the themes of encountering crazy people and dealing with awkward situations. The mission stories collected were from Canada and Switzerland. Collected by Donna Andrus, Dr. Eric Eliason's ENGL 391 class, Winter 2008.

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Kent writes about the challenges and triumphs of wheelchair bound students at Brigham Young University. Project was created for Dr. Thrusby's English 356 course at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Hartshorn collected awkward and horrible date stories. Included are stories of a boy accidentally burping before he kissed his date, a girl getting asked out by an awkward motorcycle rider, and embarrassing accidents like vomiting or wetting pants on a date. The project was written for an English 356 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.

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McGuire explores the fairy tales that friends and family remember and has them narrate their favorite version of the story. Included are Disney fairy tales, Grimm fairy tales, and other tales shared with the interviewee involving elements of fairy tales. Project was created for Dr. Rudy's English 392 course taught at Brigham Young University in 2000.

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Collection of folklore from the Wright family. Includes childhood stories, courtship stories, miraculous healing stories, premonition stories and remarkable deliverance stories. Created for Utah State University's English 524, Western folklore class in the Winter, 1982.

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Submitted by BYU student Talia Stotts on how Facebook helps construct personal and public identities through human interactions and presentation. Includes a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, informant's use of facebook, and their memorable expriences from Facebook. Prepared for her Fall 2009 English 392 class under Prof. Jill Rudy.

Scope and Contents note Wilson explores the folklore of Brigham Young University as practiced by its students and alumni. Folklore contained includes stories of the campus' statues, pushing honor code limits, University of Utah rivalry, the creation of multiple traditions, as well as stories about brothels, methamphetamine labs and harmful substances locked in high security parameters. By examining these stories, Wilson seeks to entertain and inform the reader, while providing an opportunity to have a record of...

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Submitted by BYU student Amy Browning for her English 392 course for Dr. William A. Wilson. Contains interviews and a photo copy of pages from the journal of Latter-day Saint who served in the Swedish Stockholm Mission. About road mishaps in the mission-home van.

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Horwinksi collected narratives in which subjects remembered disasters that happened in theaters. Included are a rotating stage that wouldn't stop revolving, an actor falling into the orchestra pit, and an actor getting stabbed with a real spear rather than a spring-loaded one. The project was written for Dr. Thursby's English 356 class taught at Brigham Young University in 1998.