Halloween

Halloween serves as the occasion for a full-period classroom review, turning material from the term into a team drawing game. The episode presents the holiday not through a general account of its customs, but as a point in the school year when earlier reading and shared classroom jokes become material for active participation.

A Classroom Occasion

On Halloween, the teacher devotes the entire class to a special edition of Pictionary. Students compete in teams, drawing scenes from everything they have read since the beginning of school. The activity spans a broad range of course material, from creation myths to Of Mice and Men, making the day’s game a review of the class’s accumulated reading rather than a break from it.

Literary Recall Through Drawing

The prompts invite students to translate remembered plots and images into pictures. Nakiya stands out as the class’s virtuoso artist: her full-color cartoon depicts Theseus leaving Ariadne on the island. The specific scene demonstrates how the game draws on literary detail, while giving students a visual and collaborative way to revisit it.

Classroom Humor

Alongside reading-based prompts, the teacher adds subjects drawn from class life, including Eric Choi’s head lean and Tony Danza. The students’ drawings of Tony Danza repeatedly give him a very large mouth. This joke makes the teacher himself part of the review and gives the activity a self-mocking tone: Halloween’s class game recalls both the texts students have studied and the characters who have shared the room.