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[daz1979]

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEAS FOR A HIGH SCHOOL HALLOWEEN CLASS?

Alright, so last year I had great fun at halloween with my hagwon classes. We had lots of fun as the classes were small and the children were young, but this year I'm dreading halloween.

I have 3 days to piece some kind of class together for 2nd grade middle school and 2nd grade high school.

Last year we:

Played pin the tail on the donkey.
Made halloween masks
Played halloween charades
Role played trick or treat
Sang "this is halloween"
Watched Thriller and Donald Ducks Halloween
Had a halloween quiz for candy
Had a halloween party


This year I can't see any of my students actually wanting to do any of this. Also I don't see my students everyday like I did at hagwon, so I only have limited time to get the idea accross and have a day of fun..................... So far I'm thinking along the lines of:

1. Introducing halloween. What do the students know already. (5-10 mins)

2. Point out that halloween is scary - Show two youtube videos of scared pranks and ask students when the last time they were really scared (10 minutes)

3. Give students 5-10 minutes to design the best scare prank they can think of - then tell the class. Prize for best idea. (10mins)

4. Show monster mash/time warp or thriller and ask quiz type questions based on the content. 15 minutes. (prize for best team)

5. Wrap up lesson. Give out candy to those who say trick or treat. (5 mins)


What do you think? I don't really like it to be honest, but I'm out of ideas for making halloween fun to high school students.

[sojourner1]

High schoolers typically don't do Halloween like young children. In America, when we hit the 7th grade, Trick O' Treating is finished so we watched scary movies(Children of the Corn, Friday the 13th, and Halloween), went to realistic haunted houses that adults enjoy, get lost corn mazes, and beer parties.

I wouldn't want to show a killer movie in Korea as you might teach them to kill or commit suicide. Good thing kids can't get guns here, because they'd bring it to school for a massecre. I'm not sure about teaching Korean kids tales from the dark side as they seem internalize these sorts of things to the point of actually doing them without realizing it's for the entertainment of being scare in a fun way only. Korea looks like the stage of a scary movie.

I had kindergarten last year and we dressed up and went Trick O' Treating and had a party, but nothing too scary. I'm teaching elementary this year, but won't do anything as we're going hiking this Friday. I've been mentioning Halloween, but they don't know much or celebrate it.

[daz1979]

So the long and short of it was.... No

[Mr. Pink]

Show them the movie Sleepy Hallow. Done.

[yingwenlaoshi]

Bring a flashlight to class. Turn the lights out, turn the flashlight on, place it under your chin, and say in a ghoulie voice, "Time to study English." Turn the lights on and start your class as your normally do.

[ardis]

^ Sounds good.

I did a Halloween powerpoint with a quiz game last week...went over all the basic words like jack-o-lantern, vampire, skeleton, witch, etc. This week, they have a review worksheet. Whoopdeedoo. It's not *fun*, but they were really entertained by the powerpoint. If you do one, make sure you have lots of pictures of cool jack-o-lantern designs and crazy costumes.

[daz1979]

I'm always amazed by the lack of responses when I ask for ideas for high school. I tested my idea today with my 2nd grade high school and we had a good laugh.

1 - Show Tim Burton's This is halloween song. After ask students to brainstorm halloween vocabulary. Each word gained a point for each team and a candy on their candy stash pile. Explained that one word (which was SCARY) was worth a prize.

2. When someone said SCARY. The brainstorm was over and we moved on to the lesson.

3. Asked students when the last time they felt scared was. "my friend drunk 5 bottles of soju and started going crazy, I felt very scared" used asverbs of degree to add more detail.

4. Watched some short clips of scared pranks. I paused the video at certain points and asked them to describe what they think happened next. Anyone who was close or exact got team points.

5. They designed a prank to pull on one of their friends tonight. Best/funniest idea got team points.

6. 5 minutes free time - just free talked with rocky horror playing in the background.

Went really well and even the regular sleepers were awake throughout. Happy days.

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

Tell them that you're going to follow one of them home tonight and kill them while they sleep. Now that's scary!

[ajuma]

"Pin the tail on the donkey" (aka put the paper with your name on the target) worked GREAT with my HS students. I NEVER EVER give candy, but because today was a special day, I did give candy to the winners. 15 lollipops per class. Worked like a charm. The hardest part was preventing them from telling their friends "go right, go left".

[valkerie]

[bassexpander]

My co-teacher ordered pumpkins one year, pre-gutted them, and the hs girls LOVED carving faces on them. Lots of work, but made for an interesting demo class (which Kyonngi never bothered to show up to after making a big deal out of it).

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

Also, don't do bobbing for apples. I was about to, then I realized how gross it is.

[Seon-bee]