Source: America’s Library

With Halloween just a week away, you may be looking for some Edgar Allan Poe lessons to help celebrate the season. Here are a few Web-based resources to check out.

• Law and Order: Edgar Allan Poe
  In this unit students read both “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” (The stories are available online with built-in vocabulary support.) Then they choose one of the two stories and work in small groups to write a Law and Order-style scene for the day after the story ends. Will the jury believe that the narrator of “The Tell-Tale Heart” is NOT insane, as he claims? Will Montresor confess? ::Law and Order DUN dun::
• The Interactive Raven
  As students read the poem, they are introduced to concepts like alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyme. Have headphones ready — this site has sound!
• Actor Basil Rathbone reads “The Raven.”
• “The Masque of the Red Death”
  This online text includes links to vocabulary support.
• The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, Maryland
• Poe Stories, a labor of love by graphic artist Robert Giordano
• Read about the Poe Toaster, a mysterious man who visits Poe’s grave January 19, the anniversary of his birth.

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