Tales, Rumors, and Gossip: Exploring Contemporary Folk Literature in Grades 7-12 Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and...
The title of the song is an idiom(I heard it through the grapevine)which means that someone learned a piece of information in an informal way, like through rumors or gossip. Other idiom examples in this song include the following: Make me blue— Make me sad It took me by surprise— It...