Edgar Allan Poe Web Quest



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Website Questions:
1.  Poe's was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He died on Sunday, October 7, 1849.
http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php
2.  Being a foster child because his mother died when he was two influenced his writing.
http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php
3.  Five theories on how Poe died are that he had tuberculosis, epilepsy, diabetes, rabies, or a combination of alcohol dehydrogenase deficiency syndrome and brain disease.
http://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poedeath.htm
4.  According to the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Poe considered Richmond, Virginia as his home.
http://www.poemuseum.org/life-richmond.php
5.  The Poe Society of Baltimore claims that Baltimore defines the beginning and end of Poe's life. Although he was known as a Virginian gentleman, he was in Baltimore during many important parts of his life.
http://www.eapoe.org/balt/poebalt.htm
6.  In 1831, the famous military academy, West Point, expelled Poe.
http://www.poemuseum.org/life.php
7.  Poe married his cousin, Virginia. He was 27, and she was 13.
http://poestories.com/biography.php
8. I think that Poe marrying his cousin is inappropriate. They are first cousins, and she is less than half his age. I guess it was legal in the 1800's.
9. "Murders in the Rue Morgue" is the first detective story Poe had written.
http://poestories.com/stories.php
10. "The Raven" was published in 1845.
http://poestories.com/read/raven

        Last year at St. Margaret's, we read "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. We had a whole unit about him, and we watched a movie, too. We learned a lot of these things about him. I remember knowing that he went to West Point like my dad, and a lot of the people that Poe knew and loved had died from tuberculosis. I can't wait to read more from Poe.