Capitalizing on the intense popularity of the horror film genre and recent emergence of personal media publication (myspace, UTube, podcasts), this lesson takes high school Juniors on a virtual trip back in time to read the author who created the literary genre that started it all: Edgar Allan Poe. While Poe used his pen to publish his tortured human nature, our students will take a Poe work of their choice and reproduce it in a twenty-first century media format best suited for its special effects.

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