Important Updates and Announcements!
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DARK MATTER BOOKS:
THANK YOU, to Nathaniel Klarer, for visiting our horror classes!
You can find recommendations by Nathaniel in "the closet" tab of this website!
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Throughout the duration of this course, you will be asked to create several Creative Writing projects to get first-hand experience with the stylistic elements specific to this literary genre. Each semester, the creative writing assignments will count as major grades for this course, and the cummulative pieces will be revised & bound together as a Semester Portfolio. All prior submissions are expected to be included in the portfolio, as well any additional pieces and illustrations. The final portfolio will represent the End-of-Semester exam grade.
Welcome to Ms. Casperson's HORROR class!
The goal of this course is to understand the psychological and sensory elements of literature that make this genre unique!
In this course, we will examine the definition of "horror' and explore the evolution of the genre in all of its forms.
We will incorporate film, graphic novels, and video games as examples of the genre's extension into various forms of media.
Some of the notable authors that we will be reading are:
H.P. Lovecraft
Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen King
Neil Gaiman
Horror & You!
Throughout this course, you will have ample opportunity to express yourself - creatively - through several projects.
I encourage you to explore what horror means to you & bring your personal perspectives into everything you create for this course!
Horror is fundamentally about how we are expected to react to a given scenario or set of stimuli - and all opinions and reactions are welcome!
This course will depend heavily upon classroom discussions.
Your individual experiences and reactions are paramount to creating a comprehensive understanding of what the genre means to us today!
Report Card Release Dates:
NEW Please familiarize yourself with the new Report Card schedule:
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We are on a 9-week cycle this year! CHECK YOUR GRADES ONLINE!
Parents & Students - Make sure that you have received your invitation email to access SnapGrades! You can see your assignments & grades on-line!
Carnegie Vanguard High School's Mission Statement:
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Carnegie Vanguard High School's Honor Code:
Academic honesty is expected in all assignments that the student is asked to do. All students have been given a CVHS Student Handbook with the CVHS Academic Honor Code. Cheating and plagiarism (as defined in the handbook) will not be tolerated on this campus. Any student that is caught violating the Honor Code will immediately be given a zero on the assignment, a "U" for unsatisfactory conduct, and be referred to the administration for disciplinary measures. In addition to being a Level II conduct violation, cheating and plagiarism denotes a student's flagrant disregard for the intellectual property of others that will result in a loss of trust from CVHS instructors and peers.
Contact Me
Parents and students may contact me in several ways.
- Via e-mail: acaspers@houstonisd.org
- Via website Guestbook: http://www.freewebs.com/cvhs-horror/guestbook.htm
- Via campus phone: 713-732-3690
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