Students will really get into the swing of things as they analyze the text and film versions of Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Pit and the Pendulum."

What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.

Students will compare the daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe by an unknown photographer with Poe's writings in an effort to discover the character of this mysterious author.

Explore reading strategies using Edgar Allan Poe's 偁ĽThe Raven€_ŕ and other works. Students read Poe's works in both large- and small-group readings then conclude with a variety of projects.

Lesson Plan includes: reading the background information on Edgar Allen Poe and a summary of “The Raven”, watching The Simpsons recreation of the classic poem, watching a video on figurative language, reading the poem and identifying figurative language found throughout, and creating a figurative language storyboard.

Edgar Allan Poe, an American icon, is celebrated for his life and work. This lesson will delve deeper into his early life, his macabre short stories, his poem "The Raven," and his mysterious death in Baltimore in 1849.