4th Quarter

Vampire Image will be offered 4th Quarter, 2010. Mai Vang, pre-service teacher from Edgewood College, will be the lead teacher.

Vampire Books

Fang Tales: A List in Progress
(YA-HS and Adult Titles)
revised June 24, 2010




Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter -- Seth Grahame-Smith

Blood Oath -- Christopher Farnsworth

Bluebloods series -- Melissa de la Cruz

• Bluebloods
• Masquerade
• Revelations
• The Van Alen Legacy
  

Carmilla -- Sheridan Le Fanu

Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series -- Heather Brewer

• Eighth Grade Bites
• Ninth Grade Slays
• Tenth Grade Bleeds
• Eleventh Grade Burns
  

Dracula -- Bram Stoker

The Dracula Story Continues -- Elaine Bergstrom

• Blood to Blood
• Mina

Fledgling -- Octavia Butler

The Historian -- Elizabeth Kostova

House of Night series -- Cast & Cast

• Marked
• Betrayed
• Chosen
• Untamed
• Hunted
• Tempted
• Burned
  

Jane Slayre -- Charlotte Bronte & Sherri Browning Erwin

Mr. Darcy, Vampyre -- Amanda Grange

Once Bitten, Twice Shy -- Jennifer Rardin

The Passage -- Justin Cronin

Pride and Prejudice's Vampires -- Jane Austen & Ann Hassell

Queen Betsy Vampire series -- Mary Janice Davidson

• Undead and Unwed
• Undead and Unemployed
• Undead and Unappreciated
• Undead and Unreturnable
• Undead and Unpopular
• Undead and Uneasy
• Undead and Unworthy
• Undead and Unwelcome

Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire series -- Charlaine Harris

• Dead Until Dark
• Living Dead in Dallas
• Club Dead
• Dead to the World
• Dead as a Doornail
• Definitely Dead
• All Together Dead
• From Dead to Worse
• Dead and Gone
• Dead in the Family
  

Sucks to Be Me -- Kimberly Pauley

Twilight series -- Stephenie Meyer

• Twilight
• New Moon
• Eclipse
• Breaking Dawn

Vampire Academy series -- Richelle Mead

• Vampire Academy
• Frostbite
• Shadow Kiss
• Blood Promise

Vampire Chronicles -- Anne Rice

• Interview with the Vampire
• The Vampire Lestat
• The Queen of the Damned
• The Tale of the Body Thief
• Memnoch the Devil
• The Vampire Armand

Vampire Darcy's Desire -- Regina Jeffers

You Suck: A Love Story -- Christopher Moore

Course Closure

Snaps to all students who completed their personal vampire assignments. Your vampire images were creative and provocative. Too cool! You have melded your personal style with the images of folklore, fiction, and film in your vamps. May they live throughout eternity as you have created them.

Reading Schedule for Dracula

Dracula Reading Schedule
Third Quarter 2008-09

Reading assignments are for the afternoon and evening of the dates noted. Students are expected to have read the pages for the following class period to ensure strong discussion.

F 2/20 p. 0-56

M 2/23 p. 57-79
T 2/24 p. 80-124
W 2/25 p. 125-152 / Group Work #1 due
R 2/26 Parent Confs.
F 2/27 p. 152-203

M 3/2 p. 203-230
T 3/3 p. 231-275
W 3/4 catch up
R 3/5 p. 276-290 / Group Work #2 due
F 3/6 p. 291-305

M 3/9 p. 306-318
T 3/10 p. 319-333
W 3/11 catch up
R 3/12 p. 334-347
F 3/13 p. 348-363

Closure of Text for Tuesday 3/17 / Individual Chapter Artifact Assignment #3 due

Old World Vampirism Curiosity Questions

Students were curious about the following elements of vampire mythology:

• Why did Lilith get excluded from the Bible but was included in the Talmud?
• Why were vampires believed to be obsessive compulsive in Transylvanian folklore?
• Why does a large black dog with a painted set of eyes on its forehead repel a vampire?
• Did the Roman interpretation of the vampire stem from conflicts with the indigenous, barbarian European tribes (i.e., the Gauls)?
• If one was targeted as a living vampire in his/her community, did they then lead an isolated existence?
• What is it about human nature that causes us to create blood-sucking and often immortal beings?
• How do historical examples of individuals bathing in human blood align or contrast with Deuteronomy 12:33 ("The blood is the life.")?
• Why does one need to bury a vampire at a crossroads to induce a "final" death?

What Are We Doing Today? February 16 - 20

Week Four Agenda

• M -- Work Time on Polidori
• T -- Share and Discuss Polidori vocab and "Guardian Warnings"
• W -- Background on Bram Stoker's Dracula
  
• R -- Introduce Groups and Group Assignment /distribute books /Reading time
  
• F -- Reading time (read to page 56 for Monday)

What are we doing today?

Week Three Agenda -- Feb. 9 - 13

• Monday -- Murnau's Nosferatu
• Tuesday --Murnau's Nosferatu / discussion of film images
  
• Wed. -- The Gothic tradition in literature
• Thursday -- Polidori's "The Vampyre"
• Friday -- Polidori's "The Vampyre"