Character Education through People's Story

The purpose of writing is to describe and integrate teaching material with learning materials for students by utilizing folklore for students in the material to preserve the value of local wisdom through folklore. Based on the results of the learning process in class X of Seluma Bengkulu 1 Vocational High School, Bengkulu folklore memorization in learning Indonesian language and literature shows that students are more interested and easy to find character education values. The results of analysis identify Bengkulu folklore and find content that has been analyzed as three kinds of folklore, namely: Clever Sleepers, Seven Head Snakes and Princess Serindang Bulan. Where class X students have analyzed using five values of character education, namely: honest, independent, disciplined, socially caring, and responsible. Not all of the five character education values are contained in each story. In the story of the Clever Contest students find the values of character honest, disciplined and caring socially. In the story of the Seven Head of Snake Legend, students find the values of character honest, disciplined and caring socially. In the story of Putri Serindang Bulan, students find the value of discipline and social care character education. Keywords—character building; folklore