Directions: Click on the following sites to answer the
questions. Your answers should be
written as complete sentences.
http://www.poedecoder.com/Qrisse/bio/eliza.php
1.
Who is the
woman in the picture?
2.
By the age of
fifteen, Eliza was an accomplished _______________.
3.
Edgar Allan
Poe’s father was ____________________.
4.
Why was David
jealous of Eliza?
5.
Why did David
leave his family?
6.
How many
siblings did Poe have?
7.
What happened
to Eliza after her husband abandoned the family?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
8. Poe was a(n) ___________________, ____________________, ________________,
and literary critic.
9.Poe was one of the earliest practitioners of what
literary genres? _______________________, _______________________,and ____________________
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype
10. Look at the picture of Poe on this site. What is a daguerreotype?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
11. What happened to Poe
after his mother’s death?
12. What happened to Poe’s military career?
13. What is a pseudonym?
14. What caused Poe to finally become estranged from
his foster father?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Eliza_Clemm_Poe
15. After
ending his relationship with his foster father, Poe lived with his aunt, Maria
Clem. Who is Virginia Clem? What was Poe’s relationship with
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/amity.asp
(You will need to use your headphones for this section. Click on the
16.
Poe lived
with his young wife, aunt, and grandmother at
http://www.eaglesweb.com/Sub_Pages/poe_poems.htm
Click on “The
Raven” icon to listen to Poe’s poem, “The Raven”. Answer
the questions that follow. You will need
to use your headphones to listen to the poem.
1.
What
is the mood of the poem?
2.
What
is the setting? (time and place)
3.
Briefly
discuss the plot of the poem.
4.
Who
do you think Lenore is?
5.
What
does the narrator hear when he opens his door?
6.
What
comes to visit the sad narrator?
7.
What
is the visitor’s name?
8.
Where
does the visitor sit?
9.
When
the narrator says to his visitor, “On the morrow he will leave me…” what is the
visitor’s reply?
10.
In
whose chair is the narrator sitting?
11.
What
words does the narrator use to describe the visitor?
12.
Describe
the scene at the end of the poem.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paris/cata/catacombs-worddef.html
17.
We will be
reading Poe’s story, “The Cask of Amontillado”.
The majority of the story takes place in dark catacombs. What are catacombs? Click on the picture to see an example
catacomb.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/tapholov/pages/catacombs.html
18.
View these
catacombs. List at least five things you
see. What would it be like to walk in
these catacombs?
http://knowingpoe.thinkport.org/person/death.asp
19. Go along on a virtual field trip with a student who is
researching Poe’s death. Answer the
following questions as you go along on this journey. (Click the “It Will be the Death of Me” icon)
1.
The
librarian offers the girl two suggestions on how Poe died. What are her suggestions?
Read the section called, “You’ll read about Poe’s death” and answer
these questions.
2. Why did Poe leave his home
in
3. How much money did Poe
have on him during his visit in
4.
After
visiting with Dr. Carter, Poe had dinner at a restaurant. What did Poe mistakenly take with him to the
restaurant?
5.
How
did Poe travel to
6.
The
next time anyone hears about Poe is on October 3, 1849. Joseph W. Walker finds Poe near death and
writes a letter to Dr. J.E. Snodgrass.
What does the letter say?
7.
Poe
was taken to
8.
What
were Poe’s last words?
9.
What
was odd about Poe’s clothing at the time of his death?
10.
How
was Poe behaving in the hospital before he died?
Advance
to the file cabinet and summarize the clues you find.
11.
What
five clues suggest that Poe died of mercury poisoning?
12.
What
two clues suggest that Poe died of consumption, or tuberculosis?
13.
What
three clues suggest that Poe died from heart complications?
14.
What
three clues suggest that Poe died from brain lesions?
15.
What
four clues suggest that Poe died of carbon monoxide poisoning?
16.
What
four clues suggest that Poe might have been a victim of fowl play during a
dirty election?
17.
What
three clues suggest that Poe died from alcoholism?
18.
What
five clues suggest that Poe died from rabies?
You play the
detective! Look over your list of clues
and what you’ve read about the night Poe died and determine how you think he
really died. Write your theory in the
form of an expository essay.