Halloween Lesson Plan - Fairy Tale to Scary Tale

Looking for fun and engaging high school Halloween activities and short story writing? This creative writing and Halloween narrative writing resource tasks students with putting a Halloween spin on a fairy tale by making it into a scary story!

Students will:

- Learn about common characteristics typically found in fairy tales focusing on setting, character types, plot and elements.
- Choose a fairy tale and analyze it by identifying examples of the common characteristics.
- Put a scary spin on the common characteristics they find and use that to transform the fairy tale into a scary tale! (i.e Their "scary tale" still has to have fairly tale characteristics, but with a Halloween twist!)
 
Print and digital versions available!

- PDF
- Google™ Slides
 

RESOURCE BREAKDOWN

1. Six pages of Teacher Directions

2. Warm-Up sheet

3. A detailed list identifying the common characteristics of a fairy tale.

4. Worksheets for students to choose and analyze a fairy tale.

- Annotation Template - to help students identify common characteristics.
- Synopsis Template - to help students summarize the events of the fairy tale in their own words.
- Analysis WorksheetStudents explain how the examples they find fit with the common characteristics.
- Students explain how they will put a scary spin on the characteristics they find in the fairy tale.
 
5. Sheet for students to fully write their scary story.

6. Rubric for scary tale.

7. Answer Key

FILE FORMAT

File Type: ZIP - PDF, Microsoft Word & Google Slides
Editable: Partial

Total Pages: 45
Content Pages: 38

Editable Page 1: If you want students to choose from a list of fairy tales you can create a synopsis sheet for each one so students can choose quicker. An editable template is provided for you in this resource.

Editable Page 2 and 3: If you want students to annotate their fairy tale, an editable template is provided for you.

IN AN ABUNDANCE OF CAUTION RELATED TO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, NO FAIRY TALES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT. I do however provide a website that has the text of multiple popular fairy tales.