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This short video clip will provide a glimpse into the short stories and poems we will be reading in this unit on the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe. Are you intrigued? Do you dare?

﻿﻿ This Blabberize introduces the unit by using voice and imaging.



**POE-try: An in Depth Look at Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Raven,” and Other Short Stories** **Erin Allen ** **Unit Overview ** In this unit students will be studying the effect of horror and suspense in the poetry and short stories of Edgar Allan Poe while experimenting with new vocabulary and literary terms. Students will be reading a variety of materials as they will be looking at an online biographical brochure, short stories, poetry, and other online resources. More specifically, the students will be looking at Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” and the short stories, “Cask of Amontillado,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the “fall of the House of Usher,” “The Black Cat,” and “The Pit and the Pendulum.”
 * Overview **

This unit is designed for an 8th grade Language Arts class, but can be adapted for 9th and 10th grade.
 * Student Audience **

This unit will take approximately 30 days to complete during 50 minute daily periods or block scheduling //.//
 * Timeframe **

This unit will help students appreciate the works of Edgar Allan Poe and help to extend students’ vocabulary and help students gain an appreciation for literary devices through a study of poetry and the short story. The horror and suspense elements seen in Poe’s style of writing will engage and excite the students throughout their learning.
 * <span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Rationale **

<span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Students will be able to… <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**Reading and Writing** <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">STANDARD 1: <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Students read and understand a variety of materials <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">STANDARD 2: <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Students write and speak for a variety of purposes and audiences <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">STANDARD 4: Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">STANDARD 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">**History** <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">STANDARD 2: <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Students know how to use the processes and resources of historical inquiry
 * <span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Unit Objectives **
 * <span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">To read and understand a variety of materials and to analyze the literary devices as seen in Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry and short stories
 * <span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">To apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing while interpreting written, audio, and video adaptations of Poe’s work
 * <span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">To demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology
 * <span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">To use information from their reading to increase vocabulary and enhance language usage
 * <span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">To plan, draft, revise, proofread, and edit written communications
 * <span style="color: #080808; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">To improve speech skills
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Unit Standards **
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Use comprehension skills such as previewing, predicting, inferring, comparing and contrasting, re-reading and self-monitoring, summarizing, identifying the author’s purpose, determining the main idea, and applying knowledge of foreshadowing, metaphor, simile, symbolism, and other figures of speech
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Write and speak for a variety of purposes such as telling stories, presenting analytical responses to literature, conveying technical information, explaining concepts and procedures, and persuading
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Plan, draft, revise, proofread, and edit written communications
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Use reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing to define and solve problems
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Identify the purpose, perspective, and historical and cultural influences of a speaker, author, or director
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Read literature to understand places, people, events, and vocabulary, both familiar and unfamiliar
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Formulate questions and hypotheses regarding what happened in the past and to obtain and analyze historical data to answer questions and test hypotheses

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">** Variations or Adaptations ** <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Discuss, in detail, the adaptations you would make for at least one group of identified students (GT, ELA, SPED). Include a two-to-three paragraph focusing on one of these groups.


 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Place lower level students in groups with higher level students
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Offer extensions to projects for GT students
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Offer more time and flexibility to ELA or SPED students
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Adapting the content/format of materials
 * <span style="color: #171212; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Ask lower/higher level questions (Bloom)
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