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Welcome to Edgar Allen Poe’s House of Usher

Welcome to Edgar Allen Poe’s House of Usher. Your goal: to find your way through the dangerous House of Usher, using your skills, creativity, and intelligence to make it through safely.

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Welcome to Edgar Allen Poe’s House of Usher

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  1. Welcome to Edgar Allen Poe’s House of Usher Your goal: to find your way through the dangerous House of Usher, using your skills, creativity, and intelligence to make it through safely. Visit each room in the house, and meet the challenge you find there…. And put the answers on your personal House Plans. So click on the arrow to enter the house of Usher… …IF YOU DARE!!!!

  2. Plan of the House of Usher ATTIC studio THE VAULT Foyer billiards room Library Links page EXIT

  3. Library Create a time line with at least 10 events from Poe’s life. Choose the events that you consider most interesting, or that had the largest effect on his life and work (that are NOT included in your textbook). Go to links page to find the information. Links page Return To House Plan

  4. attic Describe each of the following from the story “The Fall of the House of Usher” --Summarize the plot --Setting --Characters --Point of View --Style --Theme Links page Return To House Plan

  5. studio Make a small poster promoting the 2004 release of the new movie version of “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Be sure to include the title, the actors and their roles, time-date-place of premier (one of Poe’s residences?), and an eye-catching illustration/drawing. Links page Return To House Plan

  6. The Vault Create an informational sales brochure about the House of Usher. Describe the interior and exterior of the house (the rooms, interesting features, unique history, etc.). REMEMBER: your brochure must describe the house in a positive way—you want to sell it! For example, instead of describing the Vault as a scary dark room, you can describe it as the perfect wine cellar. Use the story as a reference, but change the mood of the descriptions. Links page Return To House Plan

  7. Foyer Of the following six topics, choose two and write a two-paragraph summary for each. --influence of his real parents on his writing --his mental health --childhood experiences --family relationships and marriage --his views on death Links page Return To House Plan

  8. billiards room Create an autopsy report for Edgar Allen Poe, explaining all the substances which had a negative effect on his body and mind throughout his entire life. Include in your report the events leading to his death. (Should be at least one page—creativity and authenticity will be rewarded). Links page Return To House Plan

  9. Congratulations! You’ve made it through Poe’s House of Usher. Relax, because the worst is over.

  10. LINKS LIST The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia which includes a biography of Poe. Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site with an Outline of His Life and Selected Works Edgar Allan Poe at the University of Virginia and a glimpse of the room where he stayed while at school. This site includes the full text of "The Raven." The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore with a detailed chronology of his life and his death. A Poe Chronology of the life of Edgar Allan Poe "along with important events in American and World History" Poet's Corner from the Gale Group includes a short biography of Edgar Allan Poe as well and the full text of "The Raven" with explanations of each stanza. Edgar Allen Poe's Footprints lists many films, cartoon, songs, TV programs and the like that have used characters or lines from Poe's literary works. Poe Perceptions - Recurrent Motifs and Themes used in Poe's literary works. "What to look for in Poe." Eye, heart, premature burial, dreams, animals, etc. History of American Literature addresses Edgar Allan Poe - New Forms of Literature and his contributions to modern literature as "a skillful poet, a very important critic, and the father of the American short story and detective story." Books and Writers gives an account of his life and a short explanation of some of Poe's stories and his influence on authors of the 19th and 20th centuries. Poe Perplex offers information written by students at the US Naval Academy on the publication, importance and summary of many of Poe's tales and poems. Other information includes a biography, family members, and friends. Encarta Online offers a biography of Poe as well as a connection to the modern day short story and the detective story. Medical Report/Circumstances surrounding Poe’s Death Find a Grave for Edgar Allan Poe in Westminster Cemetery Story Elements Decoder for “The Fall of the House of Usher” Return To House Plan

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