Ghost Stories From History! Medieval Halloween With a Harvard Teacher - Season 2
History is the inspiration for many ghost stories told during the time period of Halloween. We will learn several exciting historic tales and their spooky histories.
Sondra Rapoport
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1 live meeting
50 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
US Grade 4 - 7
Get $8 off this class with coupon code RAPOPSPOOKY8. Happy Halloween and Welcome back for more ghost stories from History! This season we will tell the stories and discuss the haunted histories of the wives of Henry VIII. Henry's many wives left behind several ghosts! Join me as we continue to explore the spooky, the ancient, and the ghastly stories of Halloween past. Learn about famous figures and events - and their spooky tales. Halloween history is even more fun in Season 2! Again this year: costumes are welcome but optional! Boo!
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Parental Guidance
This is a Halloween class. I will be telling spooky stories, but not too scary.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
In addition to my own education and research, I have used the following sources for some of my research for this class:
The US Capitol Historical Society: https://uschs.org/capitol-history-blog/the-haunted-history-of-the-us-capitol/
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII. (David Starkey)
Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
Street Life in Renaissance Rome: A Brief History with Documents. (Rudolph Bell)
The Cambridge History of The Middle Ages (Fossier)
Oxford Classical Dictionary and Oxford Companion to Classical Civilizations
Joined February, 2021
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Hello! I’m Sondra Rapoport, your friendly neighborhood Roman Historian. I taught with Harvard University's Dept of Classics for 6 years as a Head Teaching Fellow. I taught classes on The Rome of Augustus and Roman Games and won awards for distinction in teaching each semester I taught with Harvard. I also taught History of Ancient Egypt at Tufts University and worked for years on the Giza Project. This project catalogues, translates, and researches the 150 years of archaeological discovery around the Great Pyramids. Now, I homeschool my son and I greatly enjoy adapting my knowledge and classes designed for university level to each of his grade levels.
Additionally, I spend a great deal of time in the area of Rome in which some of these stories are told. I will be showing many of my own photographs and adding my own details to these stories.
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Live One-Time Class
$19
per classMeets once
50 min
Completed by 17 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-14
3-18 learners per class
