ENGLISH 7

1. ) How many words can you find hidden in the phrase "Happy Halloween"? Make a list. Select TEN words to use in FIVE compound sentences.

(A compound sentence is a sentence with two independent clauses. Example: I went to the store, and I bought candy corn.)

2. ) Use the following words to write a Halloween realistic fiction tale of no less than 100 words:

 * ghost

 * haunted mansion

 * eerie

 * goblin

 * costume

 * creepy

 * Halloween

 * candy

 * mask

 * trick-or-treat

 * party

 * full moon

 * spooky

 * monstrously

 * shriek

HW: Fri: Spelling Unit 10. Exercises 1-20, p. 52. Write misspelled word five times each.

ENGLISH 8

Turned in IOA essay.

Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, rap!

A torture chamber ...The story of a man's attempt to survive in a torture chamber during the Spanish Inquisition, one of the most deadly inquisitions in history, more of a suspenseful thriller. If you had been sentenced to death in a torture chamber, what would you do? And what's in the Pit?

It’s Halloween, a good time to write about something scary: your fears and phobias. We’ve all got them.

Though it is normal to feel fear and stress — and an invaluable survival tool — a phobia, is a persistent and irrational fear of a particular type of object, animal, activity, or a situation that poses little to no actual danger. Some phobias can be so serious that you can have a panic attack. Some, less so.

Common phobias include the fear of: blood, injections, and other medical procedures;  certain animals (for instance, dogs or snakes); enclosed spaces (elevators); flying; high places (tall buildings); insects or spiders; lightning.

QW: Write about what you’re afraid of, and why. How do you deal with your fears? How do they affect your life? Are you the kind of person who enjoys horror stories and movies or scaring yourself in other ways? Why or why not?

Now, for a little more Edgar Allan Poe on Halloween, courtesy of The Simpsons and others.

The Raven--A man is mourning the loss of his love Lenore when her hears a knock at the door. He opens it to find nothing. Later a tap on the window, he opens the window and the raven flies in and perches on a bust of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love. He concludes it is some sort of messenger so he asks it if he will ever see his love Lenore. The raven screeches "Nevermore" he asks all of these question and the replies are always "Nevermore."

Fun fact on Poe’s tomb it says,  "Quoth the Raven, Nevermore."

HW: Friday: Finish bio and last set of DEJs