Background
Legends
Legends 2
Legends 3
Parts of Speech
100
This is a fictional story that stretched the truth
What is a tall tale?
100
This person lassoed a tornado
Who is Pecos Bill?
100
This person rode a catfish down the Rio Grande.
Who is Slue Foot Sue?
100
Paul Bunyan's best friend and pet.
Who is Babe the Blue Ox?
100
Person, Place, or Thing
What is a Noun?
200
Tall Tales were told during this time period.
What are the 1800s ?
200
This person created logging and was born in Maine.
Who is Paul Bunyan?
200
This person was a cowboy from Texas.
Who is Pecos Bill?
200
This person was born a slave and freed after the Civil War.
Who is John Henry?
200
Describes a noun.
What is an adjective
300
Tall Tales were told as a form of _______________ because TV and I-phones did not exist at the time.
What is entertainment?
300
This person was said to be 18 feet tall as a baby and 36 feet as an adult
Who is Stormalong?
300
This person was Pecos Bill's first wife.
Who is Slue Foot Sue?
300
This person was a lumberjack and created the Great Lakes.
Who is Paul Bunyan?
300
Action words
What is a verb
400
These people told tall tales as they traveled west to explore new lands.
Who are American men?
400
This person was born on a mountain top in Tennessee and wore a coonskin hat.
Who is Davy Crockett?
400
This person was the ultimate sailor and had sailed on a ship called the Courser.
Who is Stormalong?
400
This man was known as a "Steel Driving Man"
Who is John Henry
400
This part of speech modifies a verb and often ends in ly
What is a adverb?
500
During the time that tall tales were being told many people were moving west to explore the rest of the country. This is called___________.
What is westward expansion?
500
These real life people were in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Who are Annie Oakley and Calamity Jane?
500
This person was known as "King of the Keelboat men"
Who is Mike Fink?
500
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind saved this person's head, stole his heart, and married him.
Who is Davy Crockett?
500
This part of speech describes a relationship between other words in a sentence
What is a preposition?
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