Winter break ended on January 2nd, 2019, and upon returning to my high school classroom, I tore away December from my school-year desk blotter. Whew! That was a hectic month. I felt cleansed to get the overbooked page into the trash and see the clean face of January.
I have been showing Frank Capra’s movie, It’s a Wonderful Life to my middle and high school English students for twenty years. This is a Christmas classic that many kids have never seen, so I feel privileged to be in a position to share this with a young, impressionable audience. I realize the timeless value of this film, it’s powerful messages, and thought provoking characters and can’t imagine a Christmas season without it.
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1. If you dressed up this Halloween, who did you pretend to be?
2. Describe your costume (or your treat giving undressed self/not naked but not masked)
3. Was it an individual, duo, or group dress-up?
4. Why did you choose to be her/him/it?
5. Did you make or buy your costume?
6. What made your costume a winner/loser?
7. Did you create, craft, or bake something for Halloween? If so describe.
8. Do you know the H-A-Double L-Oh-W (Double U) – Double EE – N spells Halloween song?
9. Would you bob for apples in this day and age, or would you just get an app to score a Honeycrisp in a cyber contest?
10. Pick one: witch, ghost, devil, vampire, clown, bunny, or werewolf?
11. Favorite Halloween treat
12. Favorite Halloween trick
13. Favorite Halloween hometown ghost story
14. Favorite Part of November (aka tomorrow)
