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| Halloween Information: 1. The first recorded Halloween celebration in the USA occurred in 1921 in Anoka, MN 2. The Haunted House Capital of the World is located in Kansas City, MO where the city features "The Beast." 3. Amusement Today judged Kennywood, PA as the third best Halloween event. Kennywood is located near Pittsburgh. 4. Statistics show that at Knott�s "Scary"Farm located on 100 acres in Buena Vista, CA, more than 1,000 people visit. 5.Some authors of scary stories include: Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Dean Koontz, J.C. Oates, Edgar Allan Poe and H.G. Wells 6. Names of some spooky places in the US: Black Cat, AR Boos, IL Broomstick Lake, NY Devils Lake, ND Frankenstein, MO Ghoul Creek, WA Goblin Knobs, NV Mummy Mountain, CO Pumpkintown, NC Skull Valley, AZ Slaughter, LA Spooky Butte, ID Tombstone, AZ An additional (151) Halloween vocabulary word list: Many thanks to a teacher-participant, MP, in Scotland: abhorrent, abode of the dead, afraid, annihilation, apparition, Banshee, bewitching, Black Mass, blood covenant, bloodcurdling, blood letting, bloodsucking, bony, brimstone, brutalize, bumps in the night, cloves of garlic, cockroaches, crawling, creaking, creepy, creeping, Cyclops, damned, death, decapitated, decomposing, deja vu, dematerialize, disembody, disembowel, disgusting, disturbing, dunking for apples, doomed, dragon, Druids, ectoplasm, entomb, exorcise, exorcism, exorcist, feasting, fiend, flesh eating, foul, freak, frozen to the spot, frozen with fear, Gargoyles, gasping, Gehenna, Ghost busters, ghost train, grave, Grim Reaper, grisly, grotesque, growling, groaning, gorging, grotesque, gruesome, guise, hackles rising, hair raising, heinous, hideous, hobgoblins, horrible, Hottentots, howling, infest, hysteria, insanity, maggot ridden, manic, maniac, manifestation, Medusa, mesmerize, metamorphosis, moaning, monster, monstrous, moldy, mummy, mutilate, nightmarish, number three, obliterate perverse, possessed, prey, petrifying, psychopath, rasp, repugnant, revolting, ritualistic, sarcophagus, sacrifice, Sangoma, screeching, scythe, shrieking, slayer, spirit, spiritualist, Styx, soul sucker, tomb, torture, troll, ugly, wailing, warlock, weird, werewolf, whispering, witch doctor, wooden stake, zap Halloween Lesson Plan ACTIVITIES: Have students, friends: 1. Draw or find pictures of items suggestive of Halloween: ex: a black cat, a cauldron etc. etc. 2. Make, buy or cook some food that would be unusual 3. Name thirteen groups of things that are similar (treats, items, costumes, words etc.) 4. Create a list of safety procedures for children who trick-or-treat 5. Name some item that has the same shape as a hat that a witch would wear. 6. Find/bring into class something a witch might own 7. Discover as many words as possible that include the letters b-o-o 8. Carve/decorate pumpkins and have a contest. 9. Find a scary story you can share: make-up, books, newspaper 10. Have a contest to name items to be put in a witch's brew. 11. List other means of traveling a witch could choose if her broom were lost, stolen or broken... 12. As a group, decide what kinds of people could get along with a witch (someone in the news, a cartoon figure, a comic character or someone known!) 13. Invent a spooky/ghost/pumpkin/black cat story that takes place in a cemetery 14. Hold an art contest and pick winners from 1-3 categories 15. Have students rename popular stores with names that suggest Halloween (Ex: FedEx=DeadEx, PakMail=RatMail etc.) 16. Have a parade of costumes and a party afterward 17. Create a Ghost Story Contest 18. List at least 5 words that describe a strange or scary scene (examples: hallucination, cemetery, labyrinth, miasma, cobwebs) 19. Give at least 5 words that tell how a person would feel in scary situations (examples: petrify, goose bumps, chills, cringe, eerie) 20. Name at least five mysterious words (examples: cauldron, sinister, macabre, metamorphosis, slink, slither, skitter, premonition) 21. Find at least five action verbs for eerie stories (examples: wail, quake, quiver, conjure, hallucinate, scare) 22. Make a Halloween Cut-Out Mask and allow plenty of room for eyes Halloween Lesson Plans and discussion questions: 1. Do you know the legend of Jack 'O Lantern, an Irish folktale? Explain 2. Mary Shelley wrote a book in 1818 about a famous monster. Can you name this creature? What do you know about the story? www.myvocabulary.com offers more than 729 word lists including Halloween Dinner Menu, Halloween Candy Sweets and Pumpkins and Zombies vocabulary word list here: Pumpkins and Zombies. To see more Halloween, Wizards, Monsters word games, please go to these word puzzles and themed content links with Latin word roots: Wizard Words, Monsters, 56 Mythology Characters, All content aligns with Common Core Standards. 2500 pages of free content are available only online. There are no fees and no registration. |