Edgar Allan Poe Short Story Unit Activity Assessment Project Grades 8-11
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Description
This Edgar Allan Poe interactive short story project offers your students a creative assessment by using a great motivating tool – technology! This interactive project is designed to be used with any of Poe’s short stories - including "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Cask of Amontillado." This also provides a unique activity to implement with your study of Dark Romanticism.
Help facilitate your students' ability to think critically and creatively through the implementation of the Edgar Allan Poe Interactive Image Technology Project!
Students will love to showcase their knowledge of one of Poe’s short stories by creating a dynamic, interactive image that includes tagged sound files, songs, images, videos, and hyperlinks to related websites. The resource materials can be used with any device and are fully editable. The project takes 2-3 days to complete and is designed for 7th-12th grade.
After reading a short story by Poe, students will first create a photo collage of related images. Several free collage-maker websites are linked to the Interactive Image Student Project Handout.
Next, Students will search for related online content to include as an embedded “tag” in Genially (a user-friendly, highly-rated free educational tech tool and website).
By searching for video files, audio, songs, and images, students will be given the opportunity to analyze and select more than one source type to represent their knowledge and analysis of one of Poe’s short stories.
Links to online digital sound effects and free music sites are included along with directions on how to embed them into their Genially interactive collage!
Students will love the opportunity to create and design their own interactive image!
This resource includes the following teaching materials:
- Access to a pdf file containing Google Share links (for all student handouts and the teacher’s rubric
- Directions on how to share with students using Google Drive, sharing within Google Classroom, and how to use share with Microsoft OneDrive
- Implementation guide and teacher notes
- Access to a sample Edgar Allan Poe Interactive Collage designed to serve as a model for your students
- Student resource list for collage-maker websites, sound effect websites, free music sites, and suggestions for image searching
- Student Project Sheet with a project requirements and free choice options for their related Interactive Image content (with suggestions)
- A How-To Create an Interactive Image using the site Genially handout with screenshots on creating buttons or tags and linking media, typing text, and embedding images
- Directions on how to share the interactive image project
- A Final Project Checklist and Planning Template for students
- Edgar Allan Poe Interactive Image Grading Rubric
Edgar Allan Poe’s stories will become ALIVE for your students with this high-interest extension activity!
This project meets the following ELA CCSS: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY: Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.
This resource is copyrighted by Teen Tech University and includes a limited license for your classroom use.
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