Halloween/Fall Traditions
This popular pie is most often featured during autumn.
Pumpkin Pie
_______________ is about a friendly ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine.
Casper
This fairytale follows a brother and sister abandoned in a forest, where they fall into danger as they are pursued by a witch who lives in a house made of gingerbread.
"Hansel and Gretel"
What's wrong with this sentence?
Trick or treating all night long.
It is a fragment.
True or false: Most sentences sound clearer and more direct in active voice
true
Each morning I appear to lie at your feet. All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun. What am I?
A shadow
On average, each kid receives ____________ piece(s) of candy per house when trick or treating.
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
B) 2
Tim Burton directed this 1993 stop motion motion classic featuring Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ichabod Crane saw a headless horseman in the town of _________________
Sleepy Hollow
What is wrong with this sentence?
Sal dressed as a pirate Tanya went as a ghost.
It is a run-on.
Is the following sentence written in active or passive voice?
The haunted house was visited by 35o people last night.
The haunted house was visited by 35o people last night.
PASSIVE voice
The person who built it sold it. The person who bought it never used it. The person who used it never saw it. What is it?
A coffin
Families flock to farms around Halloween to go on __________ ___________ rides for mild scares.
haunted hay (rides)
Which character waits in a pumpkin patch to see a mythical Halloween symbol appear in It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?
Linus
Vampire Count Dracula is said to be from the country _____________________.
Transylvania
What is wrong with this sentence?
I ate a whole pound of candy, my stomach is killing me.
It is a comma splice.
Is the following sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Although it was raining, I decided to go trick or treating anyway.
Although it was raining, I decided to go trick or treating anyway.
Complex
A zombie, a mummy and a ghost bought a house. It has all the usual rooms except for one. What room won’t you find?
A living room
Americans spend approximately _______________ on Halloween candy each year.
A) $10,000,000 (ten million)
B) $50,000,000 (fifty million)
C) $3,000,000,000 (three billion)
C) $3,000,000,000 (three billion)
This Halloween classic stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as three witches.
Hocus Pocus
Mary Shelley wrote this tale about a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment by combining parts of various corpses.
Frankenstein
Is the following sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Because we went all out with our costumes, we won the contest.
Complex
Because we went all out with our costumes, we won the contest.
Active voice is preferred most of the time because it is clearer and more direct.
When is passive voice preferred? Name the 3 times when passive voice is preferred.
When you want to emphasize the person or thing being acted upon
The actor is unknown
The actor is irrelevant
I have thousands of ears, but I can’t hear a thing. What am I?
A cornfield
A recent study found the least popular Halloween candies in America. Name one of the three least popular candies.
1. Big Circus Peanuts
2. Candy Corn
3. Peanut Butter Kisses
The Michael Meyers mask in the original Halloween was actually a mold of the face of this Star Trek actor.
William Shatner
Who is the best-selling horror author of all time?
Stephen King
Identify the dependent and independent clauses in this complex-compound sentence:
After we got home, my brother fell asleep and the rest of us stayed up eating candy and watching scary movies.
Dependent: "After we got home"
Independent: "My brother fell asleep"
"The rest of us stayed up eating
candy and watching scary movies"
Identify all 3 mistakes in the paragraph:
Tom went to the parade dressed as Spongebob, he got a lot of compliments. Because the costume was really authentic. People asked him to take pictures with them it made him really happy for a while. After several hours, the costume became rather uncomfortable. Tom decided that next time he would wear a simpler costume.
"Tom went to the parade dressed as Spongebob, he got a lot of compliments." = comma splice
"Because the costume was really authentic." = fragment
"People asked him to take pictures with them it made him really happy for a while." = run-on
I am different sizes, shapes and colors.
Many can see my veins.
I don’t go inside.
The trees are where I reside.
What am I?
A leaf