The Horror Genre!

1. The Horror Genre! Learning Objective/Kaupapa: Use your own knowledge to make connections Make informed connections and comparisons between texts that are different in time, culture and literary tradition, exploring their influence. The value is….. RESPECT The Competency is …..PARTICIPATING AND CONTRIBUTING Homework – Complete the reading in the S drive folder entitled … and make an A4 revision card summarising the key ideas. • Do Now/ NāMahi: • On my whiteboard and windows write down everything you know about the Horror genre including: • Films • Directors • Conventions • Techniques used • Sub-genres

2. Conventions. • Last lesson we looked at lots of different genres of Films. • A genre is a group of films that share similar CONVENTIONS (character types, plot lines and contain similar ideas and content.) • In pairs, write down all of the CONVENTIONS of the HORROR genre that you can think of from your own knowledge.

3. Spot the convention • Watch the extracts from Horror films and tick the conventions from the list that you find. • Film 1 ‘The Blob’ from 55 minutes to 60 minutes 1958 • Film 2 Friday 13th and Friday 13th again 1980 • Film 3 ‘Descendents’ 2011

4. Personalised questionsWhat did you notice? Ghouls: Which conventions seem to be universal (in all examples) and why? Monsters: How do the conventions link to the sub-genres of the films? Chainsaws: How have the conventions changed over time if film 1 is the earliest film and film 3 is the latest?

5. Learning Objective/Kaupapa:Use your own knowledge to make connectionsMake informed connections and comparisons between texts that are different in time, culture and literary tradition, exploring their influence. Pass the Parcel

6. The Horror Genre! Learning Objective/Kaupapa: Make informed connections and comparisons between texts that are different in time, culture and literary tradition, exploring their influence. Use a range of reading strategies to extract, infer from and apply information. The value is….. RESPECT The Competency is …..PARTICIPATING AND CONTRIBUTING Homework – Complete the reading in the S drive folder entitled … and make an A4 revision card summarising the key ideas. ALWAYS DUE END OF DAY ON A WEDNESDAY! Do Now/ NāMahi: Read the extract and take notes summarising the text.

7. Learning Objective/Kaupapa:1. Begin to make informed connections and comparisons between texts that are different in time, culture and literary tradition, exploring their influence.2. Use a range of reading strategies to extract, infer from and apply information. • Look at texts from different times, cultures and film traditions. • Compare and contrast • Look at them in context – how they affect the world and how the world affects them • Read actively when writing and using notes from a text. What sort of reading strategies do you already know about?

8. Read the text again. 1. Topic sentences give us clues. As you read, highlight all the topic sentences. 2. Key word selection. Select between 3 and 6 key words in each paragraph. 3. Summarise Use bullet points, diagrams and symbols to summarise each paragraph when you complete each paragraph. 4. Gloss Create a glossary box where you write the words you need to look up in the dictionary for their meaning. 5. Think, Link and Shrink. Think about what you already know. How does this help you to understand the text? Write additional notes around your summary to help you remember this useful previous knowledge is relevant. Linkyour ideas to other learning and to real examples and to the context of the text. Get rid of any information that is not relevant to shrinkthe amount of notes you take.

9. The Top Ten Key Events of the Development of the Horror Genre