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Spooky Secondary ELA: Reading Resources for the Season 📚

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Welcome to the Spooky Season Reading Bundle!

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POETRY

  • Day of the Dead: Building a Literary Icon Altar {@mudandinkteaching}
  • GOTHIC POETRY lesson to analyze and do creative writing in ELA {SmithTeaches9to12}
  • Fall and Halloween Full Poem Response and Coloring Pages for High School ELA {SmithTeaches9to12}

RESEARCH

  • Black Cats Close Reading Passage and Activities {Samantha in Secondary}
  • Close Reading Passage and Activities - Are Ghosts Real? {Samantha in Secondary}

SHORT STORY

  • Edgar Allan Poe Literary Devices Question Trail: Engaging Activity {@writeonwithmissg}
  • The Tell Tale Heart Escape Room {@readitwriteitlearnit}
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” Analysis Activity - Setting and Mood {@mondaysmadeeasy}
  • “The Cask of Amontillado” Vocabulary Terms {@mondaysmadeeasy}
  • Literary Devices Spooky Themed Review - Notes, Short Story, & Review Game {Simply Ana P.}
  • The Masque of the Red Death Activities {@lauralee_moss}

OTHER READING RESOURCES

  • Gothic Fiction Digital Choice Board {@mudandinkteaching}
  • Horror/Spooky Book Tasting Activity - Print/Digital {@writeonwithmissg}
  • Character Autopsies for Any Novel {@readitwriteitlearnit}
  • Halloween Podcast Comprehension and Analysis Activity {@readingandwritinghaven}
  • Middle School ELA Halloween Activities Bundle- Volume One {Martina Cahill - The Hungry Teacher}
  • Middle School ELA Halloween Activities Bundle- Volume Two {Martina Cahill - The Hungry Teacher}
  • Fahrenheit 451 Classroom Posters {@whimsyandrigor}