Ghost Stories

Years 9 - 10

Three Week workshops

Welcome to Ghost Stories. In this workshop series students are inspired by spooky poems and stories from around the world and then use their imagination to create their own take on ghost fiction. Over three workshops students learn about the conventions of ghost fiction, exploring character, mood and settings. Students will create spooky pieces of short fiction, listicles and interviews with a ghost that evoke a pleasing terror in their readers.

• Australian Curriculum Outcomes

  Create literary texts that explore students’ own experiences and imagining (ACELT1607)

  Create literary texts by developing storylines, characters and settings (ACELT1794)

  Create texts that adapt language features and patterns encountered in literary texts, for example characterisation, rhyme, rhythm, mood, music, sound effects and dialogue (ACELT1791)

• NSW Syllabus Outcomes

  Plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language (EN3-CWT-01)

  Extends Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, morphological analysis and generating precise definitions for specific contexts (EN3-VOCAB-01)

• Sample Student Writing

Available in Semester 2, 2025.