Introduction
We will be getting to know Poe through videos, readings and an interactive website. This task and the corresponding worksheets will be complete independently in two class periods.
Task
The Life and Times of Poe:
Click on the link to watch a short video on the life of Edgar Allan Poe:
Process
POE INTERACTIVE AND WORKSHEET:
*Visit "Knowing Poe" and click to launch the interactive quest entitled, "It'll Be the Death of Me..." (you may need to click download Adobe Flash for it to work)
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/death.asp
*Find the "file cabinet" in the library basement--you'll know it when you see it. Read the clues located in each folder in the file, and jot your notes down on your worksheet.
*Complete the worksheet handed out
*In conclusion vote on Poe's cause of death
THE RAVEN:
*Complete "The Raven" interactive and answer the questions on the worksheet provided.
https://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/raven/start-fl.html
ON YOUR OWN:
*Visit this FREE library to read other works by EA Poe