Unit TwoThe Human Condition -- Solitude Get Started:

1. Review Figurative Language2. Gothic Literature Pre-Writing Activity3. Introduce Gothic Literature and Edgar

Allan Poe

HOMEWORK: Review Grammar

Observe this photo (3 minutes)

Write about this photo and the observations you made (7 minutes)

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Gothic Literature

Mood – gloom, horror, mystery, suspense

Horrifying or terrifying events

Haunted castles or structures in ruins

Dungeons, dark corridors, winding staircases

Bad omens and ancestral curses

Supernatural or unexplainable happenings

Women in distress

Edgar Allan Poe

His birth mother, adoptive mother, and wife all died of tuberculosis

Lived in poverty majority of his life

Struggled with alcohol, drug, and gambling addictions

Author of gothic literature

“The Masque of the Red Death”

“The Fall of the House of Usher”

“The Black Cat”

“The Tell-Tale Heart”

“The Raven”