Carol Anne



Carol Anne Freeling is a 4 year old girl living in Cuesta Verde, California with her brother and parents. One night, Carol Anne begins communicating with the ghosts in her house. As a clairvoyant, she is able to speak with, hear, and see the ghosts in her home through the family television set. 


"They're here"


The ghosts believe she is the one who can save them from their doomed existence and so they kidnap her through a portal in Carol Anne's closet and suck her into their dimension... 


Played by 5 year old Heather O'Rourke, the trilogy of Poltergeist movies became very successful and she turned into a star overnight. She was recognized everywhere she went. Heather was a very capable 5 year old girl, and Steven Spielberg was impressed with her ability to read the script and memorize pages of it very quickly. Even on such a scary set, she was professional and confident, and acted very calm and quiet.  

Unfortunately, at the young age of 12, Heather passed away from cardiac complications that had been misdiagnosed. 

Vocabulary
1. communicating - speaking and understanding
2. clairvoyant - able to know the future
3. doomed - bad ending
4. existence - being
5. portal - door, way to
6. dimension - alternate reality
7. trilogy - set of three (movies)
8. Poltergeist - ghost
9. capable - able
10. cardiac complications - heart troubles
11. misdiagnosed - wrong explanation

Grammar

"doomed existence"
"scary set"

These are examples of an adjective and noun pair. The adjective precedes the noun and directly describes it. An adjective can modify or describe the noun. Common adjectives relate to quantity or extent.

Using the words below, create adjective noun pairs:

apple ball crisp cute new bouncy kitten sneakers

For additional review: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/adjective

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