Horror Lesson Plans - LessonCorner

1. Resources for Teachers
...or Teachers home Visual Arts Lesson: Platter Creating a clay pinch pot Relevant TEKS Knowledge and skills. Complete TEKS for 6th grade art. 1. Perception: b. 2. Creative expression/performance: c. 3. Historical cultural heritage: b. Lesson Objectives The students will be able to identify and define horror vacui. The students will create their own pinch pot vessels with no empty spaces. Introducing the Have students view an image of the platter. Work of Art Discuss horror vacui (fear of empty spaces) and how this piece Description illustrates this. Large Image Discuss how the decorations are from seve...

2. A Fascination with Mystery and Horror: Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley
A Fascination with Mystery and Horror: Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley A Fascination with Mystery and Horror: Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley Dolley Madison: Sports and Popular Culture Skill: High School/College Time Required: Four to five class periods + + -+ Standards Compliance -+ NCSS Strand 1 Culture -+ NCSS Strand 4 Individual D...

3. Resources for Teachers - Lesson Plans
Header for Lesson Plans - Resources for Teachers home Playing the Part of the Potter Work of Art: Platter Subject Area: Art Time Frame: Three Classes (45 minute periods each) Lesson Objectives: The students will be able to: + identify and define horror vacui (fear of empty spaces); + create their own pinch pot vessels with no empty spaces. Relevant TEKS: Knowledge and skills. Complete TEKS for 6th grade art. 1. Perception: b. 2. Creative expression/performance: c. 3. Historical cultural heritage: b Materials: (This activity requires the use of com...

4. Teaching English Language Arts: MovRev
...your opinion Your job is to give an opinion of the movie. Ultimately, this may come down to a thumbs up or three stars out of five. But you want to have a specific thesis to drive your critique. For example, I didn't like this comedy becomes The story had funny moments but it went on too long. This horror movie is good becomes This horror movie works because it builds suspense right up until the end. So, try to find that very specific opinion that will be the foundation of your review. Be Honest Your reader and the work you're critiquing both deserve an honest opinion, right? So even if you HATE that...

5. Egyptian Tomb Paintings
..., TX Date: December 2, 2002 Grade Level: 6, 7, 8 Subject(s): Arts/History Social Studies/World History/Ancient History Duration: Six 45-minute sessions Description: Students pretend to be a Pharaoh or Queen of Egypt. They design a tomb mural using the canon of proportion, shallow picture plane, and horror vacui (fear of empty places) depicted in tomb paintings. Using hieroglyphics, students write about the fantastic things that they accomplished as a ruler of Egypt. Goals: 1. Students will learn about daily life in Ancient Egypt. 2. Students will be able to identify characteristics of Ancient Egyptia...

6. Tales of the Supernatural
...sForeign LanguageHistory & Social Studies All Lesson PlansAll Subject CategoriesAll Web Sites Open Printable Lesson Plan _ _ Tales of the Supernatural _ _ Introduction Monsters have haunted the literary imagination from earliest times (e.g., the Cyclops, Grendel, etc.), but a particular interest in horror and the Gothic form dates back to the 18th and early 19th century. Taking their name from the Gothic architecture that often served as a backdrop to the action, these novels present supernatural events in naturalistic terms, thrilling readers with strange tales filled with mystery and terror. Learni...

7. Irony
...tudents to the framework of literary devices within a work: setting, tone, characters- the elements that make a story out of a group of collected sentences. Explain the day's objectives: today we will be discussing and reading about one of these devices: irony. 3.Ask the students for their favorite horror movies and group answers on the board. Explain that one feature of many excellent horror movies/scary movies is a type of irony- that we know what is going to happen to the characters when they themselves do not. Example: Rear Window 4.Explain how irony can also occur in our everyday life- saying on...

8. Violence
...ticles that they have found. 2. In the same groups as last week, choose a story from one that has been told, and come up with a question eg: "how could a woman kill her own baby?" 3. Depict this question as a freeze frame, eg: one child depicts the dead baby, another the mother, another looks on in horror etc. 4. Each group shows their freeze frame to the rest of the class. They are told which article was their stimulus, from which they have to guess the question, as depicted by the freeze frame. 5. The groups now try to come up with an answer to their question, eg "she was depressed, had low self es...

9. It Can't Happen Here or Can It?: Peer Pressure, Prejudice and Intolerance
...tolerance Subject: Social Studies Grade Levels: 6 through 8 Objectives: Students will have an understanding of the ways in which they might be seduced by group pressure into behavior which is harmful to themselves or others and devise strategies to resist peer pressure. Description: The outrage and horror of the Holocaust seems obvious from the safety and perspective afforded by the distance of time. Students may assume that the factors that allowed the Holocaust to happen were unique to that time in history and to that part of the world. However, acts of hate and intolerance persist to date. This le...

10. BC Education - Film and Television 11 and 12 - Curriculum
...that could be produced for $15 million, $1 million, and $100. Ask them to refer to budget specifics regarding pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution procedures. Invite students to work in groups of five. Provide each group with a scene and five moods (e.g., suspense, romance, horror, comedy, and drama). A possible scene: An actor walks through the door, crosses to a table, reads a note, dials a telephone, and says, "I've read your note." Ask students to rotate production responsibilities (e.g., action, direction, camera operation, sound, lighting). Challenge them to tape five v...