The Landlady Escape Room - A Scary Story Activity for Middle School ELA

Wrap up your reading of Roald Dahl’s scary story with The Landlady Escape Room, perfect for middle school ELA classrooms looking for 100% engagement this Halloween! This literary-elements-themed escape room is guaranteed to challenge and excite your students this year.

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Middle school ELA teachers love using The Landlady Escape Room to conclude Roald Dahl’s scary story because it’s printable, digital, and editable. After reading and discussing The Landlady, your students will work through four breakout tasks. 

► What breakout tasks will students be required to complete?

⭐ Plot Structure - Students will review various elements of the plot structure of The Landlady

⭐ Conflict - Students will review literary conflict in general as well as the conflicts present in The Landlady

⭐ Theme - Students must identify the most likely theme of the scary short story, plus identify textual evidence that supports it

⭐ Literary Elements - Students will review miscellaneous literary elements in The Landlady, like characterization, the setting, vocabulary, and more.

► How does The Landlady Escape Room work?

When you make your purchase, you will download a ZIP folder. The ZIP folder will contain a PowerPoint (for editing questions/items) and a PDF.

• Use the PowerPoint to edit or customize any questions as needed.
• Use the PDF to access the printable version, which requires about 15 minutes to print and assemble.
• Use the PDF to access the digital version by clicking on the force-copy Google links embedded on pg. 5.

The digital version is housed on Google Slides & Google Forms.

• Spend 15 minutes working through the Google Form, completing each task yourself, before assigning it to students.

You can use The Landlady escape room with Breakout EDU kits, Google Forms, or paper pencil. I’ve included options for ALL three methods!

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carley said, “AMAZING! My students love escape rooms (they would do one every day! haha) This was such an engaging resource. I always love reading The Landlady every year for Halloween.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ BraggaBit said, “I've used this twice now.  Once last year, and again this year.  I am thrilled with the purchase.  To be very honest it’s the first time I felt that my students perked up and really got engaged in the lesson.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rachel said, “I loved this resource!!! It was so easy to use, and my students really loved it. It also asked great questions that forced my students to really analyze the text. Highly recommend!”

Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):

RL.6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.5

RL.7.1, 7.2, 7.3

RL.8.1, RL.8.2

LET’S TALK TECH

This product will work with Breakout EDU Kits. However, they are not required. Some familiarity with Google Forms and Google Slides is required.

If you assign the Google activities and your students receive an "Access Denied" error message, it is because your district has blocked students from opening Google files owned by someone outside your district. You can solve this by making a "teacher copy" of the activities and then embedding your document links within the Google form.

You might also like these other scary story activities for middle school ELA:

• The Monkey’s Paw Escape Room
• The Elevator Escape Room
• The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
• The Veldt Escape Room
• Zero Hour

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Purchase the Scary Short Stories Bundle to get this The Landlady Escape Room plus those mentioned above! 

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Natayle Brown

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