Edgar Allan Poe Stories

Essential Question:

Critical Thinking

Communication

Is revenge ever justified?

How does guilt manifest itself?

Is perverseness a quality that everyone has? Does it (or insanity) justify a person’s actions and absolve them from guilt/blame?

Students will be able to identify and analyze the theme of revenge and the use of irony in “Cask of Amontillado.”

Students will be able to argue whether or not the narrator of “The Black Cat” should be held responsible for his crimes.

Students will be able to identify figurative language in “The Haunted Palace.”

Literary analysis
Creating an argument that uses a claim, relevant evidence, and reasoning to support it.
Refuting arguments
Vocabulary

Poe stories: “The Cask of Amontillado,” “The Black Cat,” “The Haunted Palace”

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