It
was the week of Halloween, and my students were asking me to do a scary story
for the extensive reading. “Well, I’ll
try and do something,” I said, although it was a little bit difficult because
with this particular class we had already worked our way through most of the
horror classics: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Phantom of the Opera. (I perhaps should have paced these out
better.)
But
I did manage to find this book in the school’s library.
There’s
no actual book called Tales of Horror
by Bram Stoker, but this book contains three of his short stories: The
Judge’s House, The Iron Maiden and The
Return of Abel Behena.
My
students really enjoyed the first two stories in this book, but were very
disappointed with The Return of Abel
Behena, which they claimed was not a scary story at all.
I
actually enjoyed all 3 stories, and it has made me curious to someday check out
the original short story collections of Bram Stoker. (Although I did find the original Dracula by Bram Stoker to be a bit slowand tedious when I read it 13 years ago.)
Teaching Materials
[These are vocab words from the first few pages of The Judge's Tale. I cut these into cards, and after the reading had the students close their books, and played the karuta game described here while I read the book again.]
student
|
finished
|
family
|
quiet
|
agreed
|
train
|
hotel
|
garden
|
street
|
lawyer
|
story
|
worried
|
gave
|
keys
|
frightened
|
Judge
|
cruel
|
hanged
|
white
|
unlocked
|
dining room
|
fire
|
supper
|
eleven o'clock
|
shadows
|
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