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    This document outlines a week-long webquest assignment on author Edgar Allan Poe for 8th grade English students. Students will analyze Poe's life experiences and how they influenced his writing by exploring his childhood, relationships, and mysterious death. They will read and analyze three of his poems and create social media posts about one. Finally, students will produce a 2-3 minute podcast presenting their analysis of how Poe's life experiences influenced his writing and their conclusion on the cause of his death. The assignment is assessed through completed tasks, a poem analysis activity, and the podcast.

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    This document outlines a week-long webquest assignment on author Edgar Allan Poe for 8th grade English students. Students will analyze Poe's life experiences and how they influenced his writing by exploring his childhood, relationships, and mysterious death. They will read and analyze three of his poems and create social media posts about one. Finally, students will produce a 2-3 minute podcast presenting their analysis of how Poe's life experiences influenced his writing and their conclusion on the cause of his death. The assignment is assessed through completed tasks, a poem analysis activity, and the podcast.

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    Unit 11 WebQuest Development Assignment

    Introduction: Welcome to the mysterious, macabre, and bone-chilling life of American writer, Edgar
    Allan Poe! This week we will be completing an interactive WebQuest which will help you learn more
    about the literature, life and times of Edgar Allan Poe – in Baltimore and beyond!

    Grade/Subject: English Language Arts, Grade 8

    Standards:
    Standard - CC.1.2.8.I
    Analyze two or more texts that provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where
    the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.

    Standard - CC.1.4.8.A
    Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information
    clearly.

    Standard - CC.1.4.8.S
    Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research,
    applying grade-level reading standards for literature and literary nonfiction.

    Standard - CC.1.4.8.U
    Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships
    between information and ideas efficiently as well as to interact and collaborate with others

    Standard - CC.1.4.8.V
    Conduct short research projects to answer a question (including a self-generated question), drawing
    on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions that allow for multiple
    avenues of exploration.

    Objectives:
    Students will be able to identify surprising, interesting, and troubling facts about Poe’s life.
    Students will read and analyze three poems by Edgar Allan Poe: “Alone,” “Annabel Lee,” and “The
    Raven.”
    Students will concisely summarize “The Raven” and prepare a hashtag and a mock-“Tweet.”

    Melanie Chester LLT 521 November 8, 2019


    Unit 11 WebQuest Development Assignment
    Students will identify key moments in Poe’s turbulent life and explain how an author’s life influences his
    or her writing.
    Students will read about the mysterious death of Poe and evaluate which cause of death seems most
    plausible based on the evidence.
    Students will create a 2-3 minute Poe Podcast (The POE-cast) which complies and synthesizes
    information about how Poe’s life influenced his writing, particularly the three poems analyzed in the
    quest, and draws conclusions about his mysterious death, justifying their choice.

    Tasks:
    While moving through the Poe WebQuest, focus on the following tasks to help guide you through the
    assignments.
    Monday: Today you will explore Poe’s twisted childhood and teenage years using the web resources in
    the quest. We will read his poem “Alone” and draw conclusions in a journal entry about how Poe’s
    childhood may have influenced the writing of this poem.

    Tuesday: Today you will focus on “Poe in love” and how the women in his life influenced his writing.
    We will read and analyze the poem “Annabel Lee” and discuss how Poe’s relationships with the women
    in his life shaped the theme of “love and loss” in his writing.

    Wednesday: Today you will focus on Poe the writer and read his most famous poem, “The Raven.” You
    will create a unique Raven/Poe hashtag and summarize the poem in a Twitter-like “Tweet.”

    Thursday: Today you will explore the various ways Poe may have died. Rank, in order, your top five
    suspected causes of death. You will then focus on your top choice and conduct additional research on
    this cause of death.

    Friday: Today you will listen to an example of a Poe podcast, create a storyboard and script for your own
    Poe Podcast, and start to record your 2-3 minute Podcast.

    Process:
    DAY ONE – An Introduction to Poe’s Life and Writing
    • To begin, watch the TED-Ed video “Why Should You Read Edgar Allan Poe?”
    • Watch the Poe Biography video
    • Complete S-I-T graphic organizer, finding surprising, interesting, and troubling facts from both
    videos.

    Melanie Chester LLT 521 November 8, 2019


    Unit 11 WebQuest Development Assignment

    • Read the poem “Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe


    • In your Writer’s Notebook, create a journal entry which explores how the circumstances of Poe’s
    life may have influenced and inspired the writing of this poem. If not finished during this period,
    please finish for homework.

    DAY TWO – The Lost Loves of Poe!


    Throughout his life, Edgar Allan Poe lost the women he loved, including his mother, adoptive mother
    and wife, many to tuberculosis. Their absence played a huge role in his writing. According to Poe, who
    often focused on death and loss in his works, “the death, then, of a beautiful woman is unquestionably
    the most poetical topic in the world.” (from PBS)
    • View the brief video http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/deaths-women-poes-
    life/9559/
    • Read Poe’s poem, “Annabel Lee” and complete your annotations in your Writer’s Notebook.
    o Be sure to use the TPCASTT model graphic organizer we’ve used all year in class.
    • Discuss with your table group partners how the loss of the beloved women in Poe’s life
    influenced his poem, “Annabel Lee.”

    DAY THREE – Poe the Writer


    Never has a poem caused such a sensation as the haunting poem of “The Raven.”
    • Listen to a professional reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Raven.” You may follow along
    to the written words of the poem here.
    • View The Raven Tweets directions
    o Create three hashtags and Tweet your response to the class Padlet.
    • Anchor activity if time permits – Watch “The Simpsons” version of “The Raven” and create an
    additional hashtag and Tweet for this version of the poem!

    DAY FOUR – The Mysterious Death of Poe


    • Visit http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/death.asp which explores the many possible
    causes of Poe’s death. This site is full of narration, graphics, solid information, and a “choose
    your own adventure” style format.
    • Create a document which lists your TOP FIVE choices of how you think Poe died. Be sure to
    include at least three sentences of justification for each cause of death.
    • Conduct additional research on your top choice of how you think Poe died.
    o These sites may be helpful:
    ▪ Smithsonian The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
    ▪ Biography.com 13 Haunting Facts About Edgar Allan Poe’s Death

    Melanie Chester LLT 521 November 8, 2019


    Unit 11 WebQuest Development Assignment
    DAY FIVE -- Poe Podcast
    The assignment is to create a 2-3 minute Poe Podcast (The POE-cast) which complies and synthesizes
    information about how Poe’s life influenced his writing, citing any of the three poems analyzed in the
    quest, and draws conclusions about his mysterious death, justifying their choice.

    • Listen to a sample Poe Podcast – start at 2:50.


    • View the details of our Poe Podcast assignment here.
    • Draft your own Poe Podcast Storyboard and Script.
    • Create your Poe Podcast. You will also have the weekend and Monday to continue working.

    Evaluation: You will be graded on the completion of all assignments in the WebQuest. Summative
    assessments will include a successful completion of your Poe Raven Tweets assignment, a self-
    constructed Poe Podcast which explains and argues your top reason how Poe died, based on the
    research presented, and an assessment on the biographical information found in the quest to be given
    the following week.

    Rubric:
    Raven Tweets Rubric
    Podcast Rubric for the script and the audio recording.

    Conclusion: Thank you for exploring the melancholy and macabre world of Edgar Allan Poe. We will
    conclude our explorative study as we listen to your classmates’ Poe Podcasts and take the Poe
    biographical assessment, which will include a self-reflection question.
    Next week, we will be reading his famous tale of murder and guilt, “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

    Melanie Chester LLT 521 November 8, 2019

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