Common Core Standards for 12th Grade English
Phantom Clown Scares
Local Legends
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Berkshire Haunted Houses featured on National Television shows: The Mount and Ventfort Hall in Lenox and The Houghton Mansion in North Adams
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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
The Ghost Stories
by Edith Wharton
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...a place where a drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land,
and to pervade the very atmosphere...
and to pervade the very atmosphere...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
by Washington Irving
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"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
The Lottery
by Shirley Jackson
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You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is --
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne