This buILder "builds" upon a SOS lesson plan of the same title: Creating Special Effects with Words . . . " The lesson culminates with student productions of Poe short stories in a visual format of their choice.
Due to the content of Poe's stories, this lesson is most suited for Junior or Senior High School students. Struggling readers will be successful despite Poe's poetic language because the stories linked to this lesson have definitions built into their pages.
CREDITS
Scary Halloween Sounds http://www.superglobe.com/halloween.htm
Pit and the Pendulum picture http://libweb5.princeton.edu/Visual_Materials/gallery/polcart/polcart1.html
Poe pictures http://www.poestories.com/index.php
Full moon and clouds www/freefoto.com//images/15/32/15_32_1_web.jpg
Created by: Julie Matz, May '07