As a home schooling parent, I am always on the search for new ways to present the poetry and short stories of Edgar Allan Poe to my children.
For our most recent language arts activity, I used ReadWriteThink.com’s lesson plans on Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. These 5-session plans include a link to a bio on Poe, a vocabulary worksheet, link to The Tell-Tale Heart online, a question/comprehension worksheet, and an assignment sheet. This is a great unit for children in fourth to sixth grade because it helps them fully understand The Tell-Tale Heart.
For children in grades six on up, Comparing Two Poe Classics uses a Venn diagram to compare two of Poe’s stories.
For high school students, grades 9 to 12, there’s Tales of Edgar Allan Poe. This lesson plan requires young adults to read and evaluate one of Poe’s short stories and to then write their own short story using the same emotion portrayed in the story.
Edgar Allan Poe: An Author Unit is a supplemental unit that has high school students delve into the life of Poe.
There is also a great mini-lesson for learning the onomatopoeia using Poe’s poem The Bells.
In Edgar Allan Poe Poetry Readers Theater, for grades 8 and 9, students will not only read four of Poe’s poems, but they will get a taste of theater productions as well.
One, Two, Three...Go POE has eleventh grade students compare and contrast three Poe stories.
Finally, if you are just looking for Poe’s work online, you’ll want to visit The Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
The above links are just a few of my favorite Poe lesson plans. If you have any more Poe links you’d like to share, feel free to do so in the discussions area.
