Edgar Allan Poe's Life and Death

Pass out the Edgar Allan Poe packet

Annotate the essays.

Annotating means to underline important ideas, write comments, or definitions.

Edgar Allan Poe:

Heroin: is a drug, an opiate

Heroine: is a female hero

Poe set off for Baltimore on the four a.m. steamer on Thursday, September 27^th.

There is no reliable witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September 27^th and October 3^rd, when he is found sitting in a stupor at Gunnar’s Hall, a Baltimore tavern, strangely dressed and semi-conscious.

Tavern: a bar with a restaurant. In the 19^th century, many taverns also had rooms to rent.

Watering Hole: a slang term for a bar where many people, particularly locals, go to drink, socialize, and find out the latest gossip. 

Polling Place: where one votes

Dire: serious, urgent, darkly urgent

Onlookers: people who are standing around looking at or watching the event that is taking place.

Vacant stupidity: when one is not feeling well and is sitting staring, unfocused.

Dingy: dirty

Cast off clothing: Snodgrass thought that Poe had been robbed, robbed of his clothes, and that Poe was wearing  the clothes that had been “cast off” or thrown away by  someone else.

Muddy was Poe’s mother-in-law

Why did Herring refuse to take care of Poe?

 He was ungrateful, and when drunk he was abusive to Herring.

In what state was Poe in when he was carried into the carriage?

Insensible means not aware of your surroundings.  Poe was insensible and muttering when he was put into the carriage.

To Adorn means to decorate or to make more beautiful.

Stupor: Unaware of his surroundings, semi-conscious.

Tremor: a trembling or a shaking of the limbs

Delirium: a feverish hallucination

Spectral: ghostly

Why does Poe not like his cousin, Neilson?

 Poe believed Neilson was jealous of Poe’s literary reputation.

 Neilson offered a home just for Poe’s wife and mother-in-law, so they could get away from Poe.

 Poe thought Neilson was bitter.

Incoherent: unintelligible; not making any sense; crazy

Degradation: decline

Rouse: to raise up; to cheer up; to uplift someone’s spirits;

Feeble: weak

Exertions: extreme physical efforts

Euphemism: a phrase used to hide the unpleasant nature of something. An example would be using the term “cerebral inflammation” to hide the fact that the cause of death was alcoholism. We use euphemisms every day. We say,” I have to go powder my nose” or “I have to see a man about a horse” when we have to leave to go to the restroom. Even the word “restroom” is a euphemism for it disguises what we are actually doing there. We don’t “rest” in the restroom.

Cerebral: having to do with the brain

Inflammation: swelling

Cerebral inflammation: swelling of the brain.

What are the three explanations given for Poe’s death?

Create a time line from September 27^th to October 7^th detailing what we know about Poe’s life.

TIME LINE of the LAST TEN DAYS of EDGAR ALLAN POE'S LIFE: 

After his engagement was broken off with Elmira Shelton, Poe left Richmond, Virginia,  for Baltimore on the four a.m. steamer on Thursday, September 27^th.

There is no reliable witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September 27^th and October 3^rd, where he is found sitting in a stupor at Gunnar’s Hall, a Baltimore tavern, strangely dressed and semi-conscious.

Poe was admitted into the hospital at five in the afternoon of Thursday, October 3^rd.

Poe arrived at the hospital in a stupor. He remained unconscious until three a.m. the next morning, Friday, October 4^th, when he developed tremors and became violently delirious, resisting the efforts of two nurses to keep him in bed.

Poe violently raved from 3 a.m. Friday, to Saturday evening – approximately, thirty hours.

Saturday evening he began to call out someone’s name until three o’clock Sunday morning, when he expired or died. He was deliriously calling out someone’s name for nine hours.

Poe raved a full day or more, through Saturday evening, October 6^th, when he started deliriously calling out someone’s name until three o’clock, Sunday morning, October 7^th.

November 2, 2015 - November 6, 2015 Weekly Agenda

Monday, November 2nd: 

1^st Period:

9^th Grade English

8:00 – 8:15: BIC

8:15 – 9:11: The students may either do silent sustained reading, work on their reading log for their AR book, or they may work on their grammar packet which will be due on Wednesday, November 4^th.

3^rd Period:

9^th Grade English

The students may either do silent sustained reading, work on their reading log for their AR book, or they may work on their grammar packet, which will be due on Wednesday, November 4^th.

Tuesday, November 3rd: 

1st Period: 

BIC: 8:100 - 8:15

Silent Sustained Reading or work on your reading log

Reading log is due today 

Go over the grammar packet 

3rd Period:

Silent Sustained Reading or work on your reading log

Reading log is due today 

Go over the grammar packet 

 Wednesday, November 4^th:

1^st Period:

BIC:

Things to do during BIC:

Silent Sustained Reading and your reading log

Work on the grammar packet

Work on “The Cask of Amontillado”

What is due today:

Your grammar packet

Your “The Cask of Amontillado” packet

You still need to take your AR test, turn in your reading log and your AR weekly reading log

Things that will count during this grading period:

Everything having to do with the 9^th Grade Interim Assessment

Graphic Organizer

Five Evidence Based Questions

Your essay and the rewrite

Everything having to do with “The Cask of Amontillado”

The Packet for “The Cask of Amontillado”

“The Cask of Amontillado” Test

The Grammar Packet

Grammar Review:

Participle is a verb that has an “ed” or an “ing” attached to it and is used as an adjective.

To whine is a verb that Anselmo and Regina do exceptionally well!!!!!

The dog whined at the door.

Dalicia says: The whining dog pawed at the door.  The participle “whining” is used to describe the dog!!!!

I folded the paper.

I threw away the folded paper.

There are two kinds of participles: present and the past.

Zippy, Regina’s puppy, chased the rolling ball.  Rolling is present

The doghouse -  which Anselmo is going to be in if he doesn’t do his homework - painted blue, sat under a tree.

The participle is a verb with an ed or an ing attached to it and is usually placed before a noun, making it work as an adjective.

Participles can also be used in verb phrases.

Zippy had been playing with a ball. Playing is a present participle. Had Been are auxiliary or helping verbs.

Example: The ball slipped past the first puzzled batter. Puzzle is a verb; add “ed”; place it before the noun and presto! You have a participle!

Directions:

Draw a line under the participle and then draw an arrow to the noun it modifies or describes.

Phrase is a group of words that are related but are not a full sentence.

Jelani put the invitations, written on red paper, in his friends’ lockers.

 Four recently built aircraft are ready for flights.

Build                                     Built                                     Was built, Have been Built, Had been built

Directions for “Participial Phrases”:

Underline the noun and draw an arrow from the participial phrase to the noun it is describing.

For homework: Finish the packet.

3rd Period: 

Silent Sustained Reading and your reading log

Work on the grammar packet

Work on “The Cask of Amontillado”

What is due today:

Your grammar packet

Your “The Cask of Amontillado” packet

You still need to take your AR test, turn in your reading log and your AR weekly reading log

Things that will count during this grading period:

Everything having to do with the 9^th Grade Interim Assessment

Graphic Organizer

Five Evidence Based Questions

Your essay and the rewrite

Everything having to do with “The Cask of Amontillado”

The Packet for “The Cask of Amontillado”

“The Cask of Amontillado” Test

The Grammar Packet

Grammar Review

Went over participle and participial phrases in the grammar packet. 
Packets due at the end of the period!

Thursday, November 5^th:

1st Period: 

BIC:

8:00 – 8:25

Silent Sustained Reading and/work on your reading log

Read “The Other Man in the Wall”; page 236

Read the biography of Edgar Allan Poe; page 240

Discussion

Period 3:

Edgar Allan Poe Packet

Elements of Literature

Pages 236, “The Other Man in the Wall”

and 240, “The Biography of Edgar Allan Poe”

Looking ahead:

Work on the Edgar Allan Poe Packet

November 13^th: Assessment

November 18^th:

THE ODYSSEY

The Edgar Allan Poe Packet: 

Heroin: is a drug, an opiate

Heroine: is a female hero

Tavern: a bar with a restaurant. In the 19^th century, many taverns also had room to rent.

Watering Hole: a slang term for a bar where many people, particularly locals, go to drink, socialize, and find out the latest gossip. 

Polling Place: where one votes

Dire: serious, urgent, darkly urgent

Vacant stupidity: when one is not feeling well and is sitting staring, unfocused.

Dingy: dirty

Snodgrass thought that Poe had been robbed, robbed of his clothes, and that Poe was wearing  the clothes belonging to someone else.

Muddy was Poe’s mother-in-law

Why did Herring refuse to take care of Poe? Reyna: He was ungrateful, and when drunk he was abusive to Herring.

What state was Poe in when he was carried into the carriage? Insensible and muttering.

Insensible means not aware of your surroundings.

Stupor: Unaware of his surroundings, semi-conscious.

Tremor: a trembling or a shaking of the limbs

Delirium: a feverish hallucination

Spectral: ghostly

Why does Poe not like his cousin, Neilson?

Reyna said Poe believed Neilson was jealous of Poe’s literary reputation.
Nicole: Neilson offered a home just for Poe’s wife and mother-in-law so that they could get away from Poe. 

Isabel: Poe thought Neilson was bitter.

Incoherent: unintelligible; not making any sense

Degradation: decline

Feeble: weak

Exertions: extreme physical efforts

Euphemism: a phrase used to hide the unpleasant nature of something. An example would be using the term “cerebral inflammation” to hide the fact that the cause of death was alcoholism.

Cerebral: having to do with the brain

Inflammation: swelling

Cerebral inflammation: swelling of the brain.

ASSIGNMENT:

1. What are two possible causes of Poe's death that have been offered by doctors?

2. What is the time line of the last twelve days of Poe’s life - from September 27th to October 7th?

Friday,  November 6th: 

1^st Period:

BIC:

8:00 – 8:15

Silent sustained reading

Work on your reading log

Pass out the Edgar Allan Poe packet

Annotate the essays.

Annotating means to underline important ideas, write comments, or definitions.

Edgar Allan Poe:

Heroin: is a drug, an opiate

Heroine: is a female hero

Poe set off for Baltimore on the four a.m. steamer on Thursday, September 27^th.

There is no reliable witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September 27^th and October 3^rd, when he is found sitting in a stupor at Gunnar’s Hall, a Baltimore tavern, strangely dressed and semi-conscious.

Tavern: a bar with a restaurant. In the 19^th century, many taverns also had rooms to rent.

Watering Hole: a slang term for a bar where many people, particularly locals, go to drink, socialize, and find out the latest gossip. 

Polling Place: where one votes

Dire: serious, urgent, darkly urgent

Onlookers: people who are standing around looking at or watching the event that is taking place.

Vacant stupidity: when one is not feeling well and is sitting staring, unfocused.

Dingy: dirty

Cast off clothing: Snodgrass thought that Poe had been robbed, robbed of his clothes, and that Poe was wearing  the clothes that had been “cast off” or thrown away by  someone else.

Muddy was Poe’s mother-in-law

Why did Herring refuse to take care of Poe?

 He was ungrateful, and when drunk he was abusive to Herring.

In what state was Poe in when he was carried into the carriage?

Insensible means not aware of your surroundings.  Poe was insensible and muttering when he was put into the carriage.

To Adorn means to decorate or to make more beautiful.

Stupor: Unaware of his surroundings, semi-conscious.

Tremor: a trembling or a shaking of the limbs

Delirium: a feverish hallucination

Spectral: ghostly

Why does Poe not like his cousin, Neilson?

 Poe believed Neilson was jealous of Poe’s literary reputation.

 Neilson offered a home just for Poe’s wife and mother-in-law, so they could get away from Poe.

 Poe thought Neilson was bitter.

Incoherent: unintelligible; not making any sense; crazy

Degradation: decline

Rouse: to raise up; to cheer up; to uplift someone’s spirits;

Feeble: weak

Exertions: extreme physical efforts

Euphemism: a phrase used to hide the unpleasant nature of something. An example would be using the term “cerebral inflammation” to hide the fact that the cause of death was alcoholism. We use euphemisms every day. We say,” I have to go powder my nose” or “I have to see a man about a horse” when we have to leave to go to the restroom. Even the word “restroom” is a euphemism for it disguises what we are actually doing there. We don’t “rest” in the restroom.

Cerebral: having to do with the brain

Inflammation: swelling

Cerebral inflammation: swelling of the brain.

What are the three explanations given for Poe’s death?

Create a time line from September 27^th to October 7^th detailing what we know about Poe’s life.

After his engagement was broken off with Elmira Shelton, Poe left Richmond, Virginia,  for Baltimore on the four a.m. steamer on Thursday, September 27^th.

There is no reliable witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September 27^th and October 3^rd, where he is found sitting in a stupor at Gunnar’s Hall, a Baltimore tavern, strangely dressed and semi-conscious.

Poe was admitted into the hospital at five in the afternoon of Thursday, October 3^rd.

Poe arrived at the hospital in a stupor. He remained unconscious until three a.m. the next morning, Friday, October 4^th, when he developed tremors and became violently delirious, resisting the efforts of two nurses to keep him in bed.

Poe violently raved from 3 a.m. Friday, to Saturday evening – approximately, thirty hours.

Saturday evening he began to call out someone’s name until three o’clock Sunday morning, when he expired or died. He was deliriously calling out someone’s name for nine hours.

Poe raved a full day or more, through Saturday evening, October 6^th, when he started deliriously calling out someone’s name until three o’clock, Sunday morning, October 7^th.

Period 3: 

Finished reading “Poe’s Final Days”

Discussion

Vocabulary for “Poe’s Final Days”:

Inflammation: swelling

Cerebral inflammation: swelling of the brain.

Exposure: Being exposed to the harsh conditions of the outside without appropriate clothing, food, or shelter.

Create a time line from September 27^th to October 7^th detailing what we know about Poe’s life.

Asiah: 

After his engagement was broken off with Elmira Shelton, Poe left Richmond, Virginia,  for Baltimore on the four a.m. steamer on Thursday, September 27^th.

There is no reliable witness or evidence regarding Poe’s whereabouts or activities between September 27^th and October 3^rd, where he is found sitting in a stupor at Gunnar’s Hall, a Baltimore tavern, strangely dressed and semi-conscious.

Poe was admitted into the hospital at five in the afternoon of Thursday, October 3^rd.

Poe arrived at the hospital in a stupor. He remained unconscious until three a.m. the next morning, Friday, October 4^th, when he developed tremors and became violently delirious, resisting the efforts of two nurses to keep him in bed.

Poe violently raved from 3 a.m. Friday, to Saturday evening – approximately, forty hours.

Saturday evening he began to call out someone’s name until three o’clock Sunday morning, when he expired or died. He was deliriously calling out someone’s name for nine hours.

Poe raved a full day or more, through Saturday evening, October 6^th, when he started deliriously calling out someone’s name until three o’clock, Sunday morning, October 7^th.

Assignments:

What are the two explanations given for Poe’s death?

Reyna:

Alcoholism

Brain Inflammation

Kimberly:

Encephalitis

Isabel:

Congestion of the brain

Too drunk to care

Asiah:

Cerebral Inflammation

Johan:

Exposure

Isabel:

Fall

Thursday, Sept.27^th at 4 a.m.

Asiah:

Election Day on Thursday, October 3^rd   

Poe was at the tavern drunk, and in a state of “vacant stupidity”. Disheveled and wearing the clothes of someone else.

Thursday, October 3^rd at 5 p.m. Poe was admitted into the hospital

Reyna:

Poe was semi-conscious until…..

On 3 a.m., Friday morning, October 4^th, Poe was violently delirious, and resisted the efforts of two nurses to keep in him in bed.

He raved for forty hours until the evening of Saturday, October 6^th.  He raved for forty hours!!!!!

On the evening of Saturday, October 6^th, Poe began calling out someone’s name.

At 3 a.m. Sunday morning, October 7^th, Poe’s condition changed to a feeble, weakened condition. At the end,  he said, “Lord have mercy on this poor soul!” And then he died.

Lynn read “Poe’s Death is Rewritten as Case of Rabies, Not Telltale Alcohol”

Vocabulary:

Participation Points:

Belligerent:

Kristina: belligerent means hostile and aggressive!!!!!

Maligned:

Asiah:

Kristina: maligned means to speak of another in a spiteful, disparaging, mean way meant to make that person look bad.

Cardiologist: a doctor whose specialty concerns the heart.

Kristina:

Comatose is to be in a deep unconscious state; to be in a coma

Hydrophobia: fear of water

Succumbed: failure to resist pressure, or temptation, or negative forces.

Poe succumbed to rabies, according to Dr. Benitez.

Asiah read “If Only Poe Had Succeeded When He Said Nevermore to Drink”.

ASSIGNMENT:

Reread the article, “If Only Poe Had Succeeded When He Said Nevermore to Drink”.

Highlight or underline the main idea and then underline or highlight the supporting evidence, which refutes the premise that Poe died of rabies.