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This The Horror! The Horror! lesson plan also includes:
- Horror Movie Trailers and Video Clips
- The Thinking Reader's Guide to Fear
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Gear up for Halloween by studying the horror genre with your class and analyzing films and texts to uncover the genre's traditional conventions.
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Instructional Ideas
- Rather than preview several different clips, consider focusing on one film and one piece of reading for a more thorough analysis and comparison
- Extend the lesson to include a discussion of film adaptations of literature in general
Pros
- Excellent suggestions for different subjects areas and classroom settings, such as reading horror stories by Stephen King or Edgar Allan Poe in lieu of films or looking at Gothic fiction in Victorian literature
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