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Creepy Classroom Activities TEACHER INSTRUCTIONS SCHOLASTIC, GOOSEBUMPS, and associated logos are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. Goosebumps, the Movie © 2015 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 650256 Goal: Students will explore literary elements and what makes a story scary. In particular, students will focus on setting, characters, suspense, and twists. Materials: Video featuring Jack Black and free movie magazine available at scholastic.com/goosebumpsmovie Prep: Direct students to page 2 of the movie magazine. The feature “Scary Stories: The Breakdown” describes the literary elements that help make a story scary. These elements apply to both literature and film. Understanding these elements will help students analyze stories and create their own. Instructions: 1. Introduce this lesson with tips from Jack Black on writing scary stories. Watch the video 2. Ask: Which story element do you think is most important in a scary story? Have volunteers offer their answers to the class and provide explanations. 3. As a class, discuss the importance of each story element listed in the magazine. For example, a story with a really scary setting might not need much action to make it scary. Likewise, a story with a frightening character, such as a flesh-eating monster, could be set in a common setting, such as a shopping mall, and still be super scary. 4. To delve deeper into the subject, introduce the possibility of combining genres in a story. Ask: How might an author or filmmaker combine comedy, action, or horror to make a good scary story? Discuss how combining genres can lead to entertaining and scary stories. Activity One: How to Write a Scary Story Jack Black plays R.L. Stine in the upcoming movie Goosebumps. This program includes a series of videos featuring Jack Black that takes you and your students through the activities. Look for this icon and share the videos with your students to spark discussion and fun, and unlock the adventure! Getting Started IN THEATERS OCTOBER 16 JACK BLACK

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Goal: Students will explore literary elements and what makes a story scary. In particular, students will focus on setting, characters, suspense, and twists.

Materials: Video featuring Jack Black and free movie magazine available at scholastic.com/goosebumpsmovie

Prep: Direct students to page 2 of the movie magazine. The feature “Scary Stories: The Breakdown” describes the literary elements that help make a story scary. These elements apply to both literature and film. Understanding these elements will help students analyze stories and create their own.

Instructions:1. Introduce this lesson with tips from Jack Black on writing scary stories.

Watch the video

2. Ask: Which story element do you think is most important in a scary story? Have volunteers offer their answers to the class and provide explanations.

3. As a class, discuss the importance of each story element listed in the magazine. For example, a story with a really scary setting might not need much action to make it scary. Likewise, a story with a frightening character, such as a flesh-eating monster, could be set in a common setting, such as a shopping mall, and still be super scary.

4. To delve deeper into the subject, introduce the possibility of combining genres in a story. Ask: How might an author or filmmaker combine comedy, action, or horror to make a good scary story? Discuss how combining genres can lead to entertaining and scary stories.

Activity One: How to Write a Scary Story

Jack Black plays R.L. Stine in the upcoming movie Goosebumps. This program includes a series of videos featuring Jack Black that takes you and your students through the activities.

Look for this icon and share the videos with your students

to spark discussion and fun, and unlock the adventure!

Getting Started

IN THEATERS OCTOBER 16

J A C K B L A C K

Creepy Classroom Activities

Activity Three: Story Starters

TEACHER INSTRUCTIONS

Goal: Students will write their own scary stories using key literary elements.

Materials: Videos featuring Jack Black sharing story prompts and tips for writer’s block; computer or paper; pen or pencil

Prep: Tell students they’ll be writing their own scary stories.

Instructions:1. Let Jack Black inspire your students to write

with spooky story prompts. Watch the video.

2. Instruct students to write a three-page short story that is scary. Tell them they can choose any story starter they like.

3. Remind them to develop the key elements of fictional stories: setting, characters, suspense… and a twist!

4. If time allows, ask for volunteers to read their stories to the class.

5. Do your students get writer’s block? Jack Black gives students tips for tackling this issue. Watch the video.

Here are some additional story starters to try:

• Sofia and her friends were hanging out at the mall. On their way home, her friends dare her to walk through a run-down abandoned house they come across. She accepts the challenge! (Bad idea!) Her friends watch as she disappears through the door…

• Lucas painted a picture of a clown when he was a kid. His mom hung it in the living room and re-fuses to take it down. (Embarrassing!) Lately, he’s been noticing the clown’s eyes are following him. (Creepy!) One night while doing his homework, he snaps and pulls the painting off the wall. Behind it there’s a gaping hole and utter darkness…

Follow-up Lesson: Create Your Own Ending

After seeing the Goosebumps movie, have students write their own end to the story.

Instruct them to pick up the action from the monster invasion of the high school dance.

Activity Two: Great Characters

IN THEATERS OCTOBER 16

J A C K B L A C K

Goal: Students will describe some of their favorite fictional characters and explore the characters in Goosebumps.

Materials: Video featuring Jack Black and free movie magazine available at scholastic.com/goosebumpsmovie

Prep: Direct students to page 2 of the movie magazine to read about developing characters.

Instructions: 1. Find out what Jack Black thinks about the Goosebumps characters.

Watch the video.

2. Ask: What is a scary character you remember from a piece of fiction (book, movie, comic, TV show, or video game)? Have students discuss what made those characters scary.

3. Discuss how a good character is three-dimensional. This applies to both protagonists and antagonists. An author can achieve this in various ways, including listing their traits, telling their backgrounds, and describing their behaviors.

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Jack’s got it—he can deliver this assignment. Watch the video.

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