Name:  __________________________________________  Class:  ___________

 

Using Grolier’s online encyclopedia   -------It’s-HALLOWEEN, it’s HALLOWEEN

Click on DICTIONARIES

 

What does necromancy  mean?  ___________________________________________________

 

     What part of speech is it?  __________ How is it broken into syllables  ______________________________

 

     It comes from the Greek word   nekros   which means  _______________________

 

What does diabolical mean?  ______________________________________________

 

     What part of speech is it?  __________ How is it broken into syllables  ______________________________

 

     It comes from a Latin  word which means  _______________________

 

Look up the word pumpkin

 

The second meaning (b) says it is not a vegetable, but a ______________________________

 

Close the DICTIONARIES section and go back to the ENCYCLOPEDIA

 

Look up pumpkin in the encyclopedia.  Click on the GME button.   Complete these sentences

 

It says a pumpkin is part of the _________________family and is also called a _________________

 

Look up Halloween

 

Halloween was originally a ______________________________________________________

 

And is celebrated on the _______________________________of the Celtic year

 

Look up Transylvania

 

Transylvania  is a hilly region in  _______________________________________________

 

Look up Houdini, Harry

 

Houdini died on __________________________________________ (do an APPLE F and type in died)

 

Look up Frankenstein ---- the encyclopedia comes up with 27 ITEMS FOUND jus scroll down to see

 

What year was the film Frankenstein first produced  __________  Several other movies were made.

 

What year was the film Young Frankenstein released  ___________

 

The film Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein was produced in  _________

 

The Bride of Frankenstein came out in  ________

 

The novel (or book) was written in 1818 by a woman named ______________________________________