The Gothic Genre

Looking for a resource to help inspire and guide students love of Halloween and spooky stories? Trying to avoid the often cliched graphic narratives full of blood and gore? This resource (a power point, Knowledge Organiser and short video) will help students to understand the conventions and style of the genre and how to create the more subtle Gothic style instead of the more gory horror.
The Knowledge Organiser helps to explain the difference between the two genres and the structure of a Gothic narrative.
The power point starts with a short exemplar to display to the class and discuss why it is Gothic and not Horror. The power point also includes three tasks:
1 - identifying descriptions that are either Horror or Gothic.
2 - changing typical Horror vocabulary to a more Gothic style.
3 - two short examples of Horror descriptions that students need to edit to create a Gothic style - and exemplars to use after the writing tasks.
The power point finishes with some knowledge checker slides to asses and reinforce learning and then final a picture of a typical Gothic setting for students to use to as inspiration for their own Gothic setting descriptions.