Ghosts and fear in language arts: Exploring the ways writers scare readers
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A lesson plan for Grade 10 English Language Arts
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- Appropriate grades
- 10
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- IRA/NCTE
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This ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to investigate what it is that is so fascinating about scary stories. They do so by exploring their own scary stories and scary short stories and books. The lesson culminates in a Fright Fair, where students share scary projects that they have created, including posters, multimedia projects, and creative writing. This lesson uses an online, interactive timeline.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 10 — English II
- Goal 4: The learner will critically interpret and evaluate experiences, literature, language, and ideas.
- Objective 4.02: Analyze thematic connections among literary works by:
- showing an understanding of cultural context.
- using specific references from texts to show how a theme is universal.
- examining how elements such as irony and symbolism impact theme.
- Objective 4.03: Analyze the ideas of others by identifying the ways in which writers:
- introduce and develop a main idea.
- choose and incorporate significant, supporting, relevant details.
- relate the structure/organization to the ideas.
- use effective word choice as a basis for coherence.
- achieve a sense of completeness and closure.
- Objective 4.04: Evaluate the information, explanations, or ideas of others by:
- identifying clear, reasonable criteria for evaluation.
- applying those criteria using reasoning and substantiation.
- Objective 4.02: Analyze thematic connections among literary works by:
