S1W12: Horror Escape Room

This week we will be learning about...

Genre: Horror

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Essential Question

What is genre? What genres are there? What makes horror so horrific?

Today's Lesson

Let's start with a warm-up!

Warm Up

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Prior Knowledge

Let's Get to the Lesson!

A literary genre is a category that authors use to describe the primary content and tone of their writing. The genre an author chooses can help them determine what type of plot, characters, and setting to create. Literary genres typically describe writing styles such as poetry, essays, novels, short stories, and plays.

What is Genre?

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LINK

Take a look at this overview of genres. You are probably most familiar with the fictional genres. Take a minute and commit them to memory so you can do the activity on the next slide! Read the article in this LINK

Genre Overview

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This week we will be reading a short horror story! (Don't worry, it's not too scary.) But we have to ask ourselves... what makes horror scary????

The Horror Genre

Your Turn!

Of course! You need fear and dread. You are afraid for the character and dread what will happen to them. But how do authors create fear and dread in a book? There are no jump scares after all...

Fear and Dread

Key Elements of Horror

Authors create fear and dread in horror with literary elements!!! (Not what you were expecting, right.) Specifically with: ~mood ~tone ~tension ~pacing ~foreshadowing

Fear and Dread

Key Elements of Horror

mood - refers to the emotions that a text evokes from the reader tone - the attitude of the author towards the subject matter, which is conveyed through the narrator's word choice, writing style, and emotional expression tension- the feeling of suspense, uncertainty, or anticipation created by conflicting forces within a literary work pacing- the speed at which a story is told foreshadowing - a narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story

Write these KEY TERMS in Your Notes

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TENSION is what keeps you on the edge of your seat and gives you that feeling of dread in the pit of your stomach. Tension is when you know something bad is going to happen, you don't know what... but you just know. It's what makes you cover your eyes with the blankets and pick your feet up off the floor so the monsters don't get them.

Tension

One of the ways authors create TENSION is with the TONE and MOOD. The setting of the story can have a dark and dreary mood and the author's tone can be mysterious or deadly serious.

Creating Tension

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Another way to create TENSION is with PACING, or the speed at which the story is told. The author can choose to slow the story down in the scary parts, like when the masked man is walking up behind the hero. Slowly getting closer...step by agonizing step. Or he can speed things up as the masked man suddenly bursts into a run behind our hero and jumps at him, tackling him to the ground!

Creating Tension

Another way to create TENSION is with FORESHADOWING. Remember, foreshadowing is when the author gives us hints at what's coming in the story. So if the author writes, "As she left the house, a chill ran down her spine, leaving an ominous feeling that something bad was about to happen” we KNOW the author is giving us a clue and something bad is going to happen...which creates tension. This also adds to the mood.

Creating Tension

Let's Apply What We've Learned

On the next slide, you will see a story from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Read the story and then answer the questions.

Let's Look at an Example

Read the Story

Read and Reflect

See if you can Escape the Haunted House!

Let's Play A Game...

"A ghost is trapped in this house, doomed to wander it until it regains all its memories. To help it find them, you must first overcome all the challenges and collect the missing objects in your inventory. Explore the house and try not to gettrapped yourself…"

Explore the house

Inventory

01

Poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction are often considered the four main _____ in literature.

characters

genres

plots

02

Predict the genre of the story based on the following setting: A dragon’s den in an unknown land.

Nonfiction

Poetry

Fantasy

03

Predict the genre of the story based on the following setting: The beginning of the Renaissance in Florence, Italy in the 14th century.

Nonfiction

Fantasy

Science Fiction

04

What genre is this: A suspenseful story about a puzzling event that is not solved until the end of the story.

Informational

Fantasy

Mystery

This is not correct...

Find the key to continue

Continue exploring the house

Inventory

01

A narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

tension

foreshadowing

tone

mood

02

What mythical creature drains the life from its victimsthrough dreams?

Banshee

Succubus

Werewolf

Dementor

03

What animal is commonly associated with witches?

Crow

Bat

Cat

Rat

04

What refers to the emotions that a text evokes from the reader?

tension

mood

tone

foreshadowing

You found a secret message

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Remember these notes and play them on the piano in the correct order

01

02

...Keep playing

03

...One more

Start over...

You found a new item for your inventory

Continue exploring the house

Inventory

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Use the magnifying glass to search for the code and then insert it into the typewriter

224

Enter the secret code

Code

01

What do the carved pumpkins withfaces mean on Halloween?

They represent trapped souls

They ward off evil spirits

Do you remember the family members

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What is the feeling of suspense, uncertainty, or anticipation created by conflicting forces within a literary work?

tension

pacing

mood

03

What genre includes elements that are impossible such as talking animals or magical powers? This genre is all about make believe.

mystery

realistic fiction

fantasy

A briefcase has appeared...

It's locked...look in the inventory for something to open it

You escaped the room and finished the assignment. Great job!

Congratulations!

You have recovered all the memories of the ghost! Now it can finally rest and you can escape from the house!

Are you sure you want to exit?

You will lose all progress made so far...

Exit

Back

Oh, no. You failed...

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