Refer to the Poe Interactive Website to answer the following:
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/timeline.asp
Write down 15 different facts about Poe’s life using the timeline’s information:
Visit “Knowing Poe: It’ll Be the Death of Me” to complete the following worksheet.
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/death.asp
1. In the basement of the library, you will find a filing cabinet. The tabs are labeled as follows:
 Poisoning
 Consumption
 In His Brain
 Heart of Poe
 Gas Lighting
 New Theory – Cats
 Crooked Elections
 Alcoholism?
Read each file thoroughly, and record the evidence for and against each theory of what caused
Poe’s death. The first example is done for you.
 In His Brain: Poe’s doctor said he had brain fever, and modern doctors say a twisted
looking face is evidence of brain lesions, but there was never an autopsy to prove it.
 Poisoning
 Consumption
 Heart of Poe
 Gas Lighting
 New Theory – Cats
 Crooked Elections
 Alcoholism?
What cause of death do you find the most convincing?
Click through the rest of the interactive. At the end, it allows you to “vote” for the cause of death you find
most convincing. Write down the percentage that goes along with the cause you voted for.
Refer to “My Tell-Tale Heart”
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/writer/telltaleheart.asp
As you read the story, it allows you to make comments as you go. You need to make at least 15 different comments
and use each of the different icons TWICE (Question, Surprise, Writing Style, Golden Line, Links, Thoughts). At the
end, it will allow you to print out the story WITH your annotations. You must print this out for credit.
Refer to “The Raven: Study Guide” and answer the following:
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides2/Raven.html#The%20Raven
1. What is the effect of using the word “chamber” instead of “bedroom” to establish the setting?
2. How is the mental state of the narrator described?
3. Read the poem. Identify the following literary devices on the copy I have given you:
a. Underline examples of alliteration by underlining the first letters of the words
b. Circle examples of internal rhyme (circle both words that rhyme)
c. Draw a box around examples of end rhyme
(The examples in the 1st two lines are done for you)
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-4. Whom do some scholars believe “Lenore” represents in the poem?
5. IN YOUR OWN WORDS, briefly summarize the events of the poem below:
6. Refer to “The Interactive Raven” and write down the meaning of the following words:
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/raven/
a.
Surcease –
e. Dirges –
b.
Entreating –
f.
c.
Implore –
g. Respite –
d. Countenance –
Seraphim –
h. Quaff