Mrs. Trent's Edgar Allan Poe Webquest

Introduction

Welcome to the Edgar Allan Poe Webquest!

These activities will be an interactive way for you to learn more about the

Father of the Detective Story!

You will be working on three (3) tasks over the next two days.

You will also be graded on how well you use your time in class. 

Task

You will study various aspects of Edgar Allan Poe's life and determine a cause of his death. 

  • Your ultimate goal will be to solve the death of Edgar Allan Poe, and write a news article about the new information.
  • First, you must complete the three (3) Tasks that are part of this WebQuest.
  • These Tasks will help give you more knowledge about Poe in order to write the news article about his death.

 

Process

You will be required to complete the following:

TASK 1:  Biography of Poe

TASK 2:  Nine Theories of Poe's Death

TASK 3:  The Legend of the Poe Toaster

  • Your task is to find out about the legend of the Poe Toaster
  • Copy and paste the link below to help you find out about the mystery.  
  • Then complete the handout Task 3: The Legend of the Poe Toaster
  • After reading and completing the vocabulary section of the handout, use your Bloom's Higher Level Question Stems (Handbook) to create a list of six (6) questions about the nonfiction text you read.
  • Then, you are responsible for answering any three (3) questions that you have created.
  • http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/11/legend-poe-toaster/

Evaluation

Edgar Allan Poe WebQuest

Teacher Name: Mrs. Trent 


Student Name:     ________________________________________

 

CATEGORY

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Internet Use

Successfully used suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Usually able to use suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Occasionally able to use suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.

Needed assistance or supervision to use suggested internet links and/or to navigate within these sites.

 

Video Questions

Vocabulary/

Bloom’s Questions

Information is very organized with well-constructed sentences and all information is completed.

Information is organized with well-constructed sentences and all information is completed.

Information is somewhat organized, but sentences are not well-constructed, and information is missing.

The information appears to be disorganized and missing key parts.

Amount of Information

All tasks are addressed and all questions answered.

Work is neat and legible.

All tasks are addressed and most (1-2) information completed.

Work is neat and legible.

Some (3-4) of the tasks are missing information.

Work appears and sloppy in areas. And rushed

Several (5 or more)of the tasks topics are missing information. 

Work is illegible in places and done in a haphazard manner.

Different colors of ink possible.

Poe’s Death - Theory Paragraph

Writing follows paragraph structure with topic sentence, text evidence, transitions, and a wrap up.

 

Fluency evident.

Writing follows most of the structure of a paragraph, but it may be missing one element but HAS text evidence.

Fluency is mostly evident.

Writing generally follows structure but the fluency is lacking due to no sentence variety and/or transitions.

Text evidence is NOT evident.

Paragraph follows no structure and is too brief to be given credit. Fluency is not evident.

 

Text Evidence is NOT evident.

Time on Task

Student was on task the entire class periods and needed no reminders to stay focused. Time was used wisely and finished work.

Student was on task for most of the periods but did not need a reminder to stay focused. Work was finished.

Student was not on task for most of the periods and needed reminders to stay focused.

Work was finished.

Student needed constant reminders to stay on task.

Work was NOT finished in the two periods.