Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Edgar Allan Poe :)

It seems like reading Edgar Allan Poe stories around Halloween is a rite of passage for students in English classes. He wrote poems such as "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee" and stories like "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Black Cat", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", etc.If you have read Poe stories before, which ones have you read and what do you remember of them? Did you like them? How scary/creepy were they? Share your memories of you or teachers reading the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

I have read "The Tell Tale heart", "The cask of Amontillado", and a few of his poems. They were very creepy and scary. I like them, especially on Halloween, but they aren't my favorite type of stories in the world. I remember that The Tell-Tale Heart is about this man who likes this one old guy, but decides to kill him because he hates one of the old man's eyes. So he kills him and is later caught and found guilty because he goes mad and confesses to the police.
Last year in english, Mrs. Gardener Turned out all of the lights and had a recording playing of "The Cask of Amontillado". It was so scary! We also wached a movie type thing in Drama last year, it wasn't to scary though, because It was only pictures with people telling the story, so it didn't have that scary efect.

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