The Graveyard Book.
This is one of my favourite books by one of my favourite authors. I'm going to read it to you during our Fears and Phobias unit. You may choose to do one of the Independent Novel Study activities for this book if you want. It also fits with our Mysteries unit.
Reading Journal - Chapter 1 How Nobody Came to the Graveyard
Reading Journal - Chapter 2 The New Friend
Reading Journal - Chapter 3 The Hounds of God
Reading Journal - Chapter 4 The Witch's Headstone
Reading Journal - Chapter 5 Danse Macabre & Interlude: The Convocation
Understanding old British Money - in Chapter 4, Bod starts asking questions about money and Liza Hempstock mentions "guineas". This website will help you understand British money.
Neil Gaiman reads The Graveyard Book
I really enjoy listening to Neil Gaiman read! I first experienced "The Graveyard Book" as an audiobook, read by him. Here's a video of him reading Chapter 1 of this book. You can watch and listen to him read all the chapters on the HarperKids channel on YouTube (clicking on the YouTube button on the video should take you there.)
Chapter 5 of The Graveyard Book is called "Danse Macabre". This is a tone poem of the same name by Camille Saint-Saens. It is based on a poem of the same name by Henri Cavalis. We'll look at that poem in class and the questions with it will be part of your assessment for this unit.
Ghoul Gate Hunt 2015
