2. Our Plan
• Learn how to analyze fiction
• Recognize the theme, plot and main
characters
• Understand how the theme is developed
by the author
• Understand how characters are
developed by the author
• Analyze word choice and tone
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3. We will accomplish this by….
• Reading and listening to works by Edgar
Allan Poe as well as other authors
• Blogging about our thoughts
• Discussing our ideas in class using a
Socratic seminar approach….I will
explain
• Creating a personal project on a work of
Poe using any and all tools available
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4. Author we will explore…
Edgar Allan Poe James Joyce Bernard Malamud
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5. First step:
Consider these questions before and after watching
the biography on Poe and listening to his writing-
• Consider factors which may have influenced Poe
• Creation of feelings, mood, tone
• Development of characters and scene
Second step:
Watch the video through the link on the next page
Listen to the podcast of Poe’s work and view the
interactive video on The Raven
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6. Edgar Allan Poe Video
Second Step:
Click on the link below to watch a short
biography on Edgar Allan Poe
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7. The Raven- An Interactive Video
The Raven- Read by James Earl Jones
Click on the link below and listen to The Raven.
View the interactive video for an introduction to
alliteration, assonance and internal rhyme. We
will review these terms further in class.
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