Halloween

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It's Spooktober my dudes and dudettes!

Halloween

Samhain

Who: the Celts

Why: end of their summer + to protect from evil

What: bonfires + costumes + predictions

All hallows eve

Who: the Romans

What: combination of Roman tradition + Celtic tradition
What: origin of bobbing for apples
When: 1st of November

Halloween

A night full of misschief, spirits and rituals

Irish Great Famine (1845-1850) -> migrants to US

Book of Hallowe'en (1919)

Traditions

Trick-or-Treating

Bobbing for apples

Pumpkins (Irish)

Dressing up 

Costumes

Look up on the internet:

• What kinds of monsters/characters are associated with Halloween? 
• What are these monsters like in the present?
• What were they like in the past?
• What is the difference?

A day in the life of...

You get a card out of the tin with a monster on it. Write a text (around 75-100 words) describing a day in the life of that Halloween monster. 

• You can write it from the perspective of the monster. That means that you write your text as if YOU ARE the monster.
• You can describe (uitleggen) what that monster's day looks like.

Be creative! Make it horrifying!

A day in the life of...

Some words you may want to use:

verbs: to bite / to scratch / to tear off / to run / to crawl / to sneak /

adjectives: scary / terrifying / dead / alive / dark / creepy / horrifying /

nouns: blood / fear / human / monster / boy / girl /