Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe’s Poetry and Short Stories

These Edgar Allan Poe quotes can be used to trick your colleagues, impress your friends, or terrify your enemies. Here’s a lesson plan. Edgar Allan Poe Quotes Quote: And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. Analysis: This cheerful axiom comes from “The Masque of the Red Death” and refers […]

Teaching ELL Students in an ELA Classroom: Edgar Allan Poe in Espanol

It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved my students. Many had wronged me. Many had given me insult. For their praise I had no desire. I think it was their future! […]

Short Stories for Teaching Imagery Lesson Plans

After teaching students about characterization and point of view, I felt pretty good about myself, so good in fact, that I commissioned the pottery teacher to create an action sculpture of me in the center of my classroom. But after grading the 93rd imagery analysis paragraph that stated “the author uses imagery to paint a […]