Knowing+Poe

=**Who is Edgar Allan Poe?media type="youtube" key="YUevIA7VfEc" height="288" width="512" align="right"**= The New Line Cinema's executives want to make sure that you and your team understand who Edgar Allan Poe, the man and the writer, was in order to ensure you capture his same style in your film treatments. To display your knowledge, you will create a presentation sharing what you have learned about Poe's life, his work, and his mysterious death.

Your presentation method is up to you, but it should focus around the following:
 * Poe's personal life
 * Poe's professional life
 * Poe's works of fiction and poetry
 * Your reflections on the type of man Poe was
 * Your perception of his writing style and literary genre

**Here is the link for the Diigo Group for Group Member's to link and highlight their research:** []

**Test Yourself! How much do you know about Poe thus far? Take this short assessment...** media type="custom" key="12747132"

Check your answers against your peers --> CLICK HERE

Next Steps

 * Share your groups' research documents within the Midnight Dreary Google Docs space.
 * With your team, decide which platform/tool you will use to present the information you and your team have discovered.
 * Delegate to each group member tasks in order to complete a professional and entertaining presentation.
 * Share a link to your finished presentation via the Midnight Dreary Google Docs space, including two sentences for each group member outlining what role they had in the presentation creation.

Continue onto the "PreProduction" page.

Video Courtesy of James Symoth.