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Spooky PoemsThanksgiving Blessingswill write a rhymingobjective: Studentspoem about Halloween.TIMEthe alphabet.15 MinutesGrade Level: K-8Materials and Resources:Paper and pencil for each studentInstructions:Tipsfor SuccessfulImplementationFor students whofinish early, havethem illustrate anddrawing of theirpoem until otherstudents havecompleted theassignment.2. Brainstorm withstudents a few wordsto use, such as “cat,”“bat,” “black” and “night.” This exercise will allowstudents to think about phonetics and rhyme sounds.3. If time allows, share some poems aloud with the class e-Book SeriesVariedGrade Level: K-3Materials and Resources:NoneInstructions:1. Have the studentswrite a shortrhyming poem aboutHalloween by writing10 lines, with an A-BA-B rhyme pattern.Lines one and threemust rhyme, andlines two and fourmust rhyme. Thispattern will continuefor the rest of thepoem.TIMEwill identify blessingsobjective: Studentscorresponding with the letters of1. All students sit in a circle.2. The first player begins by saying something they aregrateful for that starts with the letter “A.”3. The next student says something they are grateful forthat starts with the letter “B” and so on.4. When a player can’t contribute something they aregrateful for that starts with the right letter, they aredismissed from the game.Tipsfor SuccessfulImplementationTo keep studentsengaged, encouragethem to think ofthings quickly. Youmay want to set atime limit for eachindividual student.8/10

Thanksgiving Dinner AdjectivesThanksgiving DayTIMEwill think of adjectivesobjective: Studentsthat describe different aspects ofwill outline theobjective: Studentsevents of their ThanksgivingThanksgiving.Grade Level: VariedMaterials and Resources:VariedPiece of paper and pencil for each studentInstructions:1. Explain to students that they will be creating aconcept map containing words associated withThanksgiving and adjectives that describe them.2. Conduct a brainstorming session of words that arerelated to Thanksgiving. Forexample:Turkeyfor SuccessfulTipsImplementationCranberry sauceStuffingFor youngerPumpkin piestudents, youChocolate mousse piecan pre-drawMashed potatoesGravythe concept mapDinner rolls, etc.and have them3. Tell students that theydraw pictures ofwill need to think of threethe Thanksgivingdifferent adjectives for eachwords andof the items found on theadjectives.Thanksgiving dinner table.TIMEDay.Grade Level: VariedMaterials and Resources:Piece of paper and pencil for each studentVariedInstructions:1. Ask students if they have any Thanksgiving traditionsthey are looking forward to.2. Discuss how each family has their unique traditionsand how we want to learn about each.3. Explain to students that all of them are going to becreating their own flow chartsSuccessfuldescribing the events of theirTips forImplementationThanksgiving day.Pair studentsFor example:randomly to increasethe chances thatWake up Eat cold cereal Play atraditions will begame of football with cousins unique withinMake placemats and name cardspartnerships.for each person attending Helpmom make the stuffing Helpmake the deserts etc.4. Encourage students to make these detailed so theycan compare with another student the different waysfamilies celebrate holidays.5. Have the students pair up with another classmaterandomly and compare flowcharts with each other.6. Come back together as a class and discuss some ofthe similarities and differences between traditions. e-Book Series9/10

Thanksgiving Recipe Bookobjective:Students will write down theirfavorite Thanksgiving recipe asbest as they can remember.TIME10-15 MinutesGrade Level: VariedMaterials and Resources:Piece of paper and pencil for each studentInstructions:1. Ask students to share their favorite item off theThanksgiving menu.2. Inform students that we are going to be creating arecipe book of each of our favorite menu items.3. Students will select one item and write the recipetitle in the center of a piece of paper with theirname underneath. They will then list the ingredientsnecessary followed by the directions. (You may wantto distinguish for youngerSuccessfulstudents the differenceTips forImplementationbetween each of thesesections.)4. Ask students to includea picture drawing at thebottom of the page. e-Book SeriesYou may wantto take time towrite anexample recipeon the board.10/10

Bonus Material:Use If DesiredFollowing are a few short stories and adeclaration for you to read and discuss withthe students. You can either read themaloud or you may want to considerprinting several copies for students toshare and read as a small group activity. e-Book Series

By the President of the United States of AmericaA ProclamationThe year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. Tothese bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come,others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften eventhe heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil warof unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoketheir aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have beenrespected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while thattheatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealthand of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, theshuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal asof the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased,notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country,rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years withlarge increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these greatthings. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hathnevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently andgratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite myfellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning inforeign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise toour beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up theascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence forour national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows,orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and ferventlyimplore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as maybe consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred andsixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.By the President: Abraham LincolnWilliam H. Seward,Secretary of State

The RavenBy Edgar Allen PoeOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, tapping at my chamber door Only this, and nothing more.'Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrowFrom my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore Nameless here for evermore.And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; This it is, and nothing more,'Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, Sir,' said I, or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; Darkness there, and nothing more.Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, Lenore!'This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, Lenore!'Merely this and nothing more.Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. Surely,' said I, surely that is something at my window lattice;Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; 'Tis the wind and nothing more!'

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door Perched, and sat, and nothing more.Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, art sure no craven.Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'Quoth the raven, Nevermore.'Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;For we cannot help agreeing that no living human beingEver yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,With such name as Nevermore.'But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered Till I scarcely more than muttered Other friends have flown before On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'Then the bird said, Nevermore.'Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, Doubtless,' said I, what it utters is its only stock and store,Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disasterFollowed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden boreOf "Never-nevermore."'But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linkingFancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yoreMeant in croaking Nevermore.'This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressingTo the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease recliningOn the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,She shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censerSwung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. Wretch,' I cried, thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent theeRespite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!'Quoth the raven, Nevermore.' Prophet!' said I, thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!'Quoth the raven, Nevermore.' Prophet!' said I, thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'Quoth the raven, Nevermore.' Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!'Quoth the raven, Nevermore.'And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted - nevermore!

Tell-Tale HeartBy Edgar Allen PoeTRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them. Above all was the sense ofhearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then,am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story.It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day andnight. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me.He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He hadthe eye of a vulture --a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold;and so by degrees --very gradually --I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus ridmyself of the eye forever.Now this is the point. You fancy me mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. Youshould have seen how wisely I proceeded --with what caution --with what foresight --with whatdissimulation I went to work! I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before Ikilled him. And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it --oh so gently!And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed,that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunninglyI thrust it in! I moved it slowly --very, very slowly, so that I might not disturb the old man's sleep. It tookme an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon hisbed. Ha! would a madman have been so wise as this, And then, when my head was well in the room, Iundid the lantern cautiously-oh, so cautiously --cautiously (for the hinges creaked) --I undid it just somuch that a single thin ray fell upon the vulture eye. And this I did for seven long nights --every nightjust at midnight --but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work; for it wasnot the old man who vexed me, but his Evil Eye. And every morning, when the day broke, I went boldlyinto the chamber, and spoke courageously to him, calling him by name in a hearty tone, and inquiringhow he has passed the night. So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, tosuspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.Upon the eighth night I was more than usually cautious in opening the door. A watch's minute handmoves more quickly than did mine. Never before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers --ofmy sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph. To think that there I was, opening the door,little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuckled at the idea; andperhaps he heard me; for he moved on the bed suddenly, as if startled. Now you may think that I drewback --but no. His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness, (for the shutters were closefastened, through fear of robbers,) and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and Ikept pushing it on steadily, steadily.I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening,and the old man sprang up in bed, crying out --"Who's there?"I kept quite still and said nothing. For a whole hour I did not move a muscle, and in the meantime I didnot hear him lie down. He was still sitting up in the bed listening; --just as I have done, night after night,hearkening to the death watches in the wall.

Presently I heard a slight groan, and I knew it was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of painor of grief --oh, no! --it was the low stifled sound that arises from the bottom of the soul whenovercharged with awe. I knew the sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world slept, ithas welled up from my own bosom, deepening, with its dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. Isay I knew it well. I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. I knew thathe had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears hadbeen ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. He hadbeen saying to himself --"It is nothing but the wind in the chimney --it is only a mouse crossing thefloor," or "It is merely a cricket which has made a single chirp." Yes, he had bee

corner, draw a line diagonally to the bottom left corner of the block. Color everything to the right of the line. Locate block D6. Place your pencil in the upper left corner, draw a line diagonally to the bottom right corner of the block. Color everything to the left of the lin