Warmup

• Pretend that you were able to interview Edgar Allan Poe. Write down 3-4 questions you would like to ask him.

• Share: When you share your partners share their questions, try to answer them as if you were Poe. What might be a reasonable answer based on the short stories you have read?

Content Language Object

• Read a biography of Poe and drawn inferences of how his life related to his work citing strong and thorough textual evidence to support the analysis

Biography

• Read the biography of Edgar Allan Poe• Apply the following reading strategies:– Circle words you do not know– Paraphrase the central idea of each paragraph– Underline 1-2 phrases that support the central

idea

Drawing Inferences

• Turn one of your paraphrases into a sentence introducing the central idea of one of the paragraphs you read.

• Create an inference explaining how this impacted his writing.

• Make a connection to his stories to demonstrate the validity of your inference. (This may be used as information for the introduction of your Style Analysis Essay to introduce Edgar Allan Poe.)