This Horror Genre Library Lesson is for middle school library and high school library. Special emphasis on gothic literature. Recommended for Grades 7-12.
This Horror Genre Library Lesson is for middle school library and high school library. Special emphasis on gothic literature. Recommended for Grades 7-12. Includes two parts--a whole-class lesson and a scrolling slideshow.
This Horror Genre Library Lesson is for middle school library and high school library. Special emphasis on gothic literature. Recommended for Grades 7-12. Includes two parts--a whole-class lesson and a scrolling slideshow.
This Horror Genre Library Lesson is for middle school library and high school library. Special emphasis on gothic literature. Recommended for Grades 7-12. Includes classic horror quotes and trivia.

Horror Genre Library Lesson – Gothic Literature – Middle School Library

$7.00

This Horror Genre Library Lesson is perfect for middle school library and high school library. Part I is an introduction to the horror genre, with emphasis on gothic literature and other horror subgenres. Part II is a scrolling slideshow with trivia questions, classic horror literature quotes, would you rathers, and more!

Though students may be familiar with the featured stories from movies, this presentation emphasizes horror literature, not movies.

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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS HORROR GENRE LIBRARY LESSON:

  • Recommended for: Grades 7-12
  • Formats: PPT, Google Slides, and PDF
  • Editable: YES, all text is editable
  • Lesson duration: 20-30 minute whole-group discussion + 23-minute scrolling slideshow (timed at 45 seconds for each of the 31 Part II slides)

HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:

  • 48 PPT slides + Google™ Slides
  • Recommended Reads bookmarks (2 pages, editable)

PART I INCLUDES:

  • review of genre (what is genre)
  • students’ preliminary thoughts on the horror genre
  • characteristics of horror
  • genres that are often mixed with horror
  • subgenres of horror
  • gothic literature characteristics and well-known examples from classic literature
  • body horror literature – characteristics and classic literature examples
  • folk horror literature – characteristics and classic literature example
  • two slides for checkout procedures and reminders

PART II INCLUDES:

This is a scrolling slideshow. If you time the slides at 45 seconds each, the horror genre slideshow will 23 minutes in length.

  • Who am I? author spotlight (Stephen King)
  • Bram Stoker Awards
  • Who was Bram Stoker?
  • quotations from Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Dracula (Bram Stoker), and “The Fall of the House of Usher” (Edgar Allan Poe)
  • color psychology and horror – red, black, and green
  • 5 things every horror story needs
  • Word of the Week: ominous and macabre
  • Daily and weekly schedule
  • Announcements
  • Reminders
  • This week’s birthdays

CLASSIC HORROR GENRE LITERATURE MENTIONED:

  • “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs
  • “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving
  • “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Dracula by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Carrie by Stephen King
  • others are mentioned as trivia question answer choices

RECOMMENDED READS BOOKLISTS

  • two bookmarks, editable in PPT and PDF
  • One bookmark is Grades 6-8, and the other is Grades 9-12.
  • All titles are recommended on Titlewave for Grades 6-8 and 9-12.
  • Titles are fiction, short stories, and graphic novels.
  • All titles received positive reviews from professional library journals. Many received starred reviews.

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