Drawing by Year 7 Preshil Student, Zoë.
The Genre of Horror
Statement of Inquiry: Creative works within a genre share stylistic and thematic elements, which can vary across different cultures.
Inquiry Questions:
Factual:
How does horror differ among cultures? What defines 'horror' as a genre? What makes it scary? What are the subgenres? |
Conceptual:
Why do we want to be scared? Why do some people enjoy horror and others don’t? |
Debatable:
Which country has the scariest horror? Which subgenre of horror is the scariest? |
Students closely study the genre of horror, as it has manifested in different times and a variety of cultures. Students begin by considering what constitutes horror, before looking more closely at texts from the genre. These include work by Shelley Williams and Edgar Alan Poe as well as the short stories of Japan’s Koji Suzuki, to gain perspective on the way that culture may be embedded in the approach to the genre. Students create their own piece of analytical, informative or creative work in response to the genre.
Our pre-teaching knowledge of the tropes of horror:
A closer look at horror subgenres:
A comparison of childhood and adult fears:
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