Best Free Halloween Movie Guides for Middle School | Worksheets | Quiz | PDF | Google Classroom
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These middle-school-ready Halloween guides balance engagement with rigorous skills: theme, cause-effect, character change, and media literacy. Use them for sub days, station work, or short writing assessments aligned to core ELA standards.
FREE Halloween Movie Guides (Middle School)
- Frankenstein (NR - 1931) — a classic entry point for ethics and historical context; students compare early horror techniques to modern conventions.
More Halloween Movie Guides (Middle School)
- Casper (PG - 1995) — grief, belonging, and “unfinished business” themes scaffold evidence-based paragraphs.
- The Addams Family (PG-13 - 1991) — identity vs. appearance and the integrity of loyalty.
- Hocus Pocus (PG - 1993) — Salem context, satire, and teamwork lend themselves to compare/contrast writing.
- Goosebumps (PG - 2015) — author vs. creation, comedic relief, and genre expectations.
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG - 1993) — identity and creativity with opportunities for song-lyric close reading.
Standards Connection
All resources map to CCRA.R.1–R.3 (evidence, theme, analysis), SL.1 (discussion), and W.1/W.2 (argument/informative writing). Prompts require cited scene evidence and clear reasoning, and many sets include Google Forms for quick formative checks.
Lesson Flow
- Activate prior knowledge (genre, background context) and preview one writing prompt.
- Structured view with pause points; students answer short prompts individually, then compare in pairs.
- Collect a paragraph (claim + cited scene evidence + explanation) for grading against a single-point rubric.
Optional Extension (Teacher-Created)
Not included in the product PDFs.
- “Then vs. Now” horror comparison: choose one cinematography element from Frankenstein and find a modern analogue.
- Mini-debate: Which character shows the most growth—Kat, Wednesday, or Jack Skellington?