Common Core Standards for 12th Grade English
common core standards covered in haunted new england
Phantom Clown Scares
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NY Times Article on the Clown Scare of 2016
Why clowns are scary
People afraid of clowns for centuries
CLown scare of 1981
Some explanations of clown scares
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Local Legends
Central berkshire ghost hunters - pittsfield
Berkshire eagle ghost stories close to home
Obscure Vermont
Berkshire bigfoot sightings back to 1765
UFO Sightings in the berkshires
Berkshire secret korendor ufo base
Berkshire Haunted Houses featured on National Television shows: The Mount and Ventfort Hall in Lenox and The Houghton Mansion in North Adams
The orbits were sunk, and the thick red-lined lids hung over the eyeballs like blinds of which the cords are broken. One lid drooped a little lower than the other, with the effect of a crooked leer; ~ The Eyes

The Ghost Stories
by Edith Wharton
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the triumph of night text
miss mary pask text
Mr. Jones text
bewitched text
...a place where a drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land,
and to pervade the very atmosphere...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
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the legend of sleepy hollow text
Rip van winkle text
the devil and tom walker text
the specter of the bridegroom text
the adventure of the german student text
headless horseman haunted hayride
The legend of sleepy hollow webquest
"Well, now." Mr. Summers said soberly, "guess we better get started, get this over with, so's we can go back to work. "

The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
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This link is from Salon. PPS considers that site "Adult" and won't allow school access.
You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is --

The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Painting of the house in Lenox from which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote "The House of the Seven Gables."