Poe+Unit

=**We started out the unit by brainstorming what makes a story scary. The students created a web of what they thought.**=

Tyler B.-suspence and death! Jessica- Violence, suspence, death, darkness, and music ( if it's a scary movie your watching! Onyx-blood and zombies! Mike- Darkness and blood are the things i think you need the most in a scary movie or story. Hannah- Suspence, darkness. Nancy- I think that the most important thing that need to be in a scary story are Suspence and Darkness.

Tyler S. The most important thhing in a scray store is suspence.

Allie J.- The most important thing for a scary movie or book is suspence and crime. This is so it makes it more interesting.

Wyatt D.- The most important thing for a scary movie/book is that their needs to be dimemberment, decapitation, and any tipe of gore.

Chris H.- The most important thing for a scary movie or book is suspense and death. That makes a story thrilling and interesting. Brittny- The most important thing for a scary movie or book is masks and scary music.

George- The most important thing in a scary story is blood and torture because torture is scary and blood goes along with torture.

DJ- I think the most important thing in a scary story is torture and suspence because torture is thrilling and suspence because it make the story so much better.

Jeremy- I think the most important thing in a scary story is blood and dismenberment because it is really gorey and that will freak people out.

Megan- The most important element of a scary story is suspense, in my opinon. I think if it's too predictable it either makes it funny or boring.

Corey- The most important thing in a scary story is that it has to have killing in it. I also think every scary story should have darkness in it.

Kathryne- What I think the most important thing to a scary story or movie is suspence or crime because that is what makes the thing worth watch when you are scareded like you can't watch anymore but you can't stop so you just sit there..

==Then we read Poe's Tell Tale Heart! Here is what we thought...... The Tell Tale Heart containd old people, darkness, death, blood, decapitation, suspence, killers, screaming, dismemberment, and torture. In our opinion this is a scary story. It is a scary story because it contains all the things we think a scary story should have.== Hannah, Brittny, Tyler

__**Next we read Fall of the House of Usher! Here is what we thought.....**__
Nancy, Jessica, and Megan. For the Fall of the house of Usher, we all thought that it met the standards of a scary story. It had both darkness and suspence. It also had irony and a lot of foreshadowing. There was also old people in the Fall of the House of Usher. In our opinion, we thought that The Fall of the House of Usher was a scary story. It contained most of the things that are needed in a scary story.

Next we read Cask of the Amontillado! Here is what we thought...... Wyatt, Chris, Catherine The Cask of the Amontilado was a scary story. It had torture, death, suspense, and crime. These are a few of the things that make up a scary story. It also held up to the expectaions of Poe because it had irony, foreshadowing, and a lot of things to do with the mind. Also you had to infer the death of Fortuanto. The scariest part of the story was when Fortunato started screaming after he realized he was sealed in the wall. Next we read Pit and the Pendulum! Here is what we thought... Corey, George, and Mike The pit and the pendulum was a scary story. It had torture, darkness, rats, a giant pendulum, and a dark pit. These were some key things that made this a scary story. There was a lot of suspense, because you would want to know what would happen next. It had a lot of forshadowing and a lot of tricking the mind. The scariest part of the story was when the pendulum was falling down and when he almost fell in the pit. Overall it was a really good book.

Next we read The Black Cat! Here is what we thought....