Halloween

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1-3

🎃 Today:

-Halloween.. Hallo-what?! (5 mins)

- Writing

🎃 Today's goals:

- You will know more about the history of Halloween

- You have practised writing a scary story.

What do you know
about Halloween?

00:43

In which country did Halloween start?

1. America
2. England
3. Ireland
4. Scotland

01:11

How did the Celts ward off (afweren) ghosts?
More than one answer is correct

1. by wearing costumes
2. Carving pumkins (uitsnijden van pompoenen)
3. Dancing with the ghosts
4. Bonfire

01:32

How did Halloween start?

1. They liked to dress up as something scary
2. To protect themselves from ghosts
3. They were protecting themselves from other people
4. They liked to scare each other

01:39

What is a Jack o'lantern?

1. paint on a pumpkin
2. a pumpkin carved out with faces

02:09

Who were the first Jack o'lanterns?
More than one answer is correct.

1. Potatoes
2. Eggplant (aubergine)
3. Pumpkin
4. Turnip (knolraap)

Writing

You are going to write a scary story.

Every story has a beginning, middle and an end.

Beginning: introduce the characters

Middle: describe the problem/conflict

End: Resolve the problem or end with a twist

Assignment:  

You are going to write a spooky story.

A: write the first  10 to 15 sentences: 

Start with: "They claim the house was haunted, but it looked okay to me, so...."

B: write the middle of the story: 10 to 15 sentences:   

Start with: " Suddenly...."

C: write the end of the story: 10 to 15 sentences : 

Start with: "It was then that...."

Writing

Setting: where and when does your story take place?

Characters: who is in your story?

Problem: what spooky or mysterious thing happens?

Resolution: how does the story end?

Read your story to each other

Was it any good?

Scary Alphabet

Make a Halloween alphabet e.g. A = America, B = bat…..etc
How many letters can you do??