STATE-FOLKLORE

http://theshadowlands.net/places/
http://www.americanfolklore.net/ss.html

Give time for the students to choose a ghost/folklore story to write about.  Talk about summarization.

http://www.readingquest.org/strat/summarize.html
http://okscribbler.blogspot.com/2009/02/teaching-summarizing-story.html

Create a formatted writing sheet to help your students with their paragraph about their state folklore.  Some ideas are to answer the questions what happened, where it happened, when it happened, how it happened....