Project Directions and Suggestions
Project organization and tips for formatting
PowerPoint Issues - Adding Sound

The PowerPoint presentation will consist of:

For both 6th and 7th Project:   6th Grade Project Rubric  7th Grade Project Rubric

1. Title slide (Title of presentation, name, class/hour date)
2. Origins of Halloween including descriptions of three countries
3. At least three personalities associated with Halloween
4. At least three symbols of Halloween
5. Works cited page of sites used

For 7th and 8th Grade:

6. Halloween traditions in the United States
7. Pictures of Halloweens past of author - individual / group members
8. Works cited page of sites used in MLA format

For 8th Grade only:       8th Grade Project Rubric (Adds narration)

9. Project will be fully narrated

 

History / Origins of Halloween

Wikipedia: Halloween

Happy Halloween
Includes links to other topics

Halloween

Wesley Lowe;s Halloween History

History and Customs of Halloween

History of Halloween

History of Halloween

Education World Halloween

American Catholic.org History of Halloween and All Saints and All Souls Day

Seibel's Haunted Halloween

Halloween: Myths, Monsters, and Devils

*Good for Symbols
and Origins
Brownielocks.com
Halloween History

Symbols

Halloween: Its Origins, Customs, and Legends
***Great for symbols and origins!

Halloween History

Halloween on the Web

Halloween is here.com

Halloween.com

Gift Ideas: Halloween History

History Channel: Halloween

The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows

About.com Halloween History

Halloween Symbols

Things In the Basement:
Halloween History

Symbols and Their Meanings
(Some symbols are not appropriate for use in the project -- ask Miss O)

Halloween Facts, History of Halloween, Origin of Halloween, Halloween Trivia

Halloween Origins
 A lot about traditions

How We Learned to Say “Trick or Treat”

Halloween Around the World

History of Halloween

Around the World Halloween

History and Legends of the Jack O' Lantern

Los Dias De Los Muertos
 the Mexican Holiday
The Days of the Dead

Marvelicious Halloween

The History and Legends of Halloween

History and Customs of Halloween

Halloween Around the world

Halloween Around the World

Halloween Around the World
The History Channel

Halloween Customs and Traditions

History and Legends of Trick-or-Treating

Research three of each of the following personalities (people or “formerly” people), symbols (things or objects), or traditions (American traditions) concerning the history of Halloween. Other choices need to be cleared with Miss O.

Personalities

Symbols

witches

Famous Witches
Legendary and Folk Witches
Fictional Witches
Television Witches
Witches Movies
Salem Witch Trials
Salem Witch Trials (2)

ghosts

Famous Ghosts
Classic Ghost Stories
Classic Ghost Stories
Military Ghosts

dragons

Origin of Gothic Culture

wizards

Merlin the Magician
Merlin of the King Arthur Legends

goblin

broomsticks

trick or treating

Druids

Wikipedia: Druids
Celtic Druids of Britannia

mummies

Samhain

All Saints Day

Dracula

Frankenstein

jack-o-lanterns

wearing costumes

Grim Reaper

vampires

bobbing for apples

curses / spells

werewolves

zombies

All Souls Day

haunted houses

Use the provided websites, or use a good search engine (like Google) to research these topics...take care when using sites other than those found on this page...

Helpful Sites for Specific Personalities

Dracula / Vampires

Vlad Tepes Vlad the Impaler, the Historical Dracula

The Historical Dracula

The Dracula-myth in Transylvania

Frankenstein

The Origin of a Myth: Mary Shelley’s Novel Frankenstein

Penguin Frankenstein Book Club Reading Guide

Werewolves

Werewolf

Were-animals around the world

Werewolves: The Myths and the Truths

Werewolf

The Mummy

Halloween Origins

Curse (and Revenge) of the Mummy Invented by Victorian Writers

Curse of the Mummy’s Text - Good site for development of mummy myths

Witches

What About Witches



Salem Witch Trials, 1692

Songs and Sounds

You may download from these sites. Right click and “Save Target As” into your Halloween folder in your student folder on the server. Do not download from any other sites for this project!

Caverns of Blood      

Doreen’s halloween

 Spooky Midi Collection

I Love Wavs
Halloween

Scary Halloween Sounds

Canvasworks Halloween Midis

Don't forget to include a page citing the sources you used for the information of your report (You do not have to cite graphics or sounds you use in the PowerPoint).
*Remember, search engines like Google or Yahoo are NOT web sources and should not be cited--only cite the actual web sites where information is found.

 Purdue University’s The Owl - MLA Formatting
Purdue University MLA - Electronic Sources
Miss Olson’s How-to Create an MLA Works Cited Page

Sources from the project already
cited for you...You’re welcome!