Re: Scary Story Unit

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Stephen King had a paperback, Skeleton Crew I think, that had a
scad of scary stories in it. Many have become movies... Salem's
Lot, The Mist... and the stories are very different from the
movies.

Also, Richard Matheson's short novel, I Am Legend was a
blockbuster movie last year... the novel is waaaaayyyyy
different and scarier than the movie.

Poe is always a favorite of mine, though I think one of the
scariest stories has been Masque of the Red Death. It is a
social commentary that can tie in nicely with world history and
current social class struggles.

And here's a cool website to view short stories online...
http://www.horrormasters.com/Themes/Horror_Short_Stories.htm

Hope this helps.

On 7/08/09, unknown wrote:
> On 10/09/08, Jocelyn wrote:
>> Hi all!
>>
>> I am trying to plan a 3 week scary story unit for my 8-
>> 11th graders. I have a lot of lower level students, but a
>> few very advanced students. For my lower level 8th and
>> 9th graders, I have some short stories from R.L.Stine's
>> Goosebumps book. For my high school kids though, I am
>> stumped. I want to use all short stories, and I have some
>> audio cds too, but I am having a hard time finding "cool"
>> stories high school appropriate. These kids really hate
>> to read, so I am trying to find some really interesting
>> material, and then of course, they will write their own
>> scary story. Anyone have any ideas? I also wanted to do
>> a history of Halloween scavenger hunt...there are some
>> interesting things on history channel.com, but does anyone
>> have any other ideas?
 

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