Edgar Allan Poe Interactive Biography - American Literature and ELA - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This Edgar Allan Poe interactive biography turns the life behind the horror stories and the first detective fiction into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Poe (1809-1849) from an orphaned childhood and a broken relationship with his foster father through the magazine world he could never quite master, the fame that arrived with The Raven, and the four days in Baltimore nobody has explained. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the orphaned boyhood and the Allan household, the drift through the University of Virginia and West Point and the move to the Clemm home in Baltimore, the editing years at the magazines, the fame that came with The Raven, and the final mystery in Baltimore - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 44 events setting Poe's life beside the America around him: the Erie Canal, Jackson's presidency, the Panic of 1837, the Mexican War, Seneca Falls and the Gold Rush, with Baudelaire's French translations after his death - Map: Thirteen places that shaped the story, from Boston and the Allan home in Richmond through Stoke Newington, the University of Virginia and West Point, the Baltimore of the Clemm household, the magazine offices in Richmond, Philadelphia and New York, and Fordham Cottage - Connections: A 23-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his wife Virginia Clemm, his aunt and mother-in-law Maria Clemm, his foster par
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