1. Halloween By Natalie Branand

2. Origins of Halloween  Ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain 2000 years ago.  Market end of harvest season and they believed this day a bridge to the dead was formed.  Used to stand for “All Hollow's Eve”.  People would leave out food and wine on their doorsteps to please the roaming spirits to make sure they wouldn’t come inside.  Whenever one would leave the house they would dress as a fellow ghoul or ghost to try to fool the ghosts roaming the streets that they were one of them.

3. Present Day Halloween  Activities include:  Trick or treating  Costume parties  Decorating  Carving Pumpkins  Pranks  Scary Stories o Famous Halloween Movies:  All 8 of the Halloween movies  Nightmare on Elm Street  Friday the 13 th o Another pop culture Halloween subject is the notorious Michael Jackson Thriller which sold over 9 million copies and was claimed had one of the best music videos of all time.  www.vevo.com/watch/michael-jackson/thriller/ussm20301507 www.vevo.com/watch/michael-jackson/thriller/ussm20301507

4. Fun Facts  Americans spend up to $6 billion on average on Halloween each year.  U.S growers produce up to 1,500,000,000 pounds of pumpkins each year.  Pumpkin carving originally came from Ireland but instead of pumpkins they would carve turnips.

5. Sources  http://www.history.com/topics/halloween http://www.history.com/topics/halloween  http://www.livescience.com/40596-history-of- halloween.html http://www.livescience.com/40596-history-of- halloween.html  http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of- halloween/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-halloween http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of- halloween/videos/bet-you-didnt-know-halloween  http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of- halloween/videos/all-about-the- pumpkin?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=f alse http://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of- halloween/videos/all-about-the- pumpkin?m=528e394da93ae&s=undefined&f=1&free=f alse