Halloween Literature Units Bundle: Sleepy Hollow, Tell-Tale Heart, Jekyll & Hyde

This is a bundle of our literature units for the Halloween season or if you simply want to go through horror genre literature with your class. Students analyze three acclaimed classics. These include The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde. Students will delve into the context of each author's purpose, read the texts (included), engage with the vocabulary, collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, make inferences supported by evidence, and complete creative writing assignments. Each unit has daily lesson plans included.

Note on Level of Rigor: High school is the target grade range for the standards in these units. However, these units may also be used for 8th grade classes if the teacher determines the students are proficient in rigorous literary analysis.


Resources included in this bundle:

1. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - This is a fun 2-week unit plan about one of the earliest works of classic American literature from Washington Irving and is a fun storyline for students to analyze. Students will: Participate in engaging PowerPoint sessions, read the text (included), engage with the rich vocabulary, collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, make inferences about themes supported with evidence, use a viewing guide as they watch the classic animated version, and complete a writing assessment from a choice board. There is also an optional exam.

2. The Tell-Tale Heart - This is a fun 2-week unit plan for Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. This is an engaging short story for students to analyze. Students will read the text (included), engage with the vocabulary, collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, participate in PowerPoint sessions for identifying mood and tone in passages, make inferences about themes supported by evidence, engage in a fun class debate about the narrator's guilt, and complete a creative writing assignment from a choice board.

3. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - This is a fun 2-week unit plan for the Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Engage your students by studying one of the most classic horror stories in literature. Students will: Participate in engaging PowerPoint sessions, read the text (included), collaborate to answer text-dependent questions, make inferences about themes supported with evidence, conduct a character analysis, and complete a fun creative writing assignment in the form of a psychological evaluation.

Enjoy these fun, spooky, and timeless classics with your class!

Note: You can also get this bundle in our comprehensive Holiday Literature MEGA BUNDLE that includes other bundles of units for the holidays. If you would like them all, please buy the mega bundle instead and save 20%.

You may also be interested in:

• "Write Your Own Horror Story" Activity
• The History of Halloween
• The Raven -1 Week Unit
• Thanksgiving Literature Bundle
• Christmas Literature Bundle
• American Literature Mega Bundle: Volume 1
• Exploration Literature Bundle
• U.S. Founding Literature Bundle
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: Viewing Guide & Short Story vs. Movie Comparison
• The Call of the Wild: 5 Week Unit Plan
• Film Review -Persuasive Writing Assignment
  

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