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State of IsraelMinistry of EducationEnglish Inspectorate

Unit Planner

Teacher’s Name: Tali Winer Date: 27/8/17

Name of School: Ulpenat Noga Text #: Grade taught:

10th

Name of Literary Text: Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

Genre: poem/story/play/novel

Level: D

Targeted Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) for Analysis and Interpretation

to be taught explicitly

Targeted HOTS to be Spiraled

1. Making Connections

2.

3.

Relevant Literary Terms to be Taught

Setting

theme

Targeted Benchmarks in the Domain of Appreciation of Literature and Culture

Recognize the use of literary techniques in a variety of genres Interpret literary texts Are aware of the author’s background and the cultural, historical and/or social themes in literary texts or

other cultural products Are aware of how cultural practices are reflected in various literary and cultural products

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Lesson # Date Key Component Activity/iesList of attached

worksheets (when used)

Pre-Reading The teacher will spread out different quotes about Love or the Power of Love in the class. The students will go around the quotes and will pick up the one that they most identified with.Each student in her turn will explain why she chose that quote and what it means to her.

See pages: 6-7

Basic Understanding (LOTS)

Introduce low and high frequency new vocabulary (Make a story using as many words as you can from the word list). LOTS questions

See pages: 8-9

Analysis and Interpretation:

HOTS

Teaching the HOTS of making connection, first explicitly and then applying it to the poem and to the students own reality.

See pages: 10-13

Extended HOTS Themes and repetition throughout the poem See Page 13

literary termsSetting: definition and application to the poem See Pages: 13-14

Bridging Text and Context

“ The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

Connect this quote to the poem Annabelle Lee

See Pages: 14-15

Post-Reading Activity

The student may choose to do one of the following options:

1. Select two images from the internet that illustrate the poem Annabel Lee. Make a comparison between the two images.

2. Make a short film/a video clip demonstrating the events in the poem.

See pages: 16-17

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3. Create a comic strip or a photo album in which the events of the poem are conveyed.

Reflection See Pages 18- 19

Summative Assessment

LOTS, HOTS and bridging text and context questions

See Pages: 20-23

Poem Pouch See Page: 23

Summative Reflection

See Page: 24

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ANNABEL LEE by Edgar Allan Poe 1849

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of ANNABEL LEE;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

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In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me

Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we

Of many far wiser than we

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,

In the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

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Pre reading Activity

The teacher will spread out different quotes about Love or the Power of Love in the class.

The students will go around the quotes and will pick up the one that they most identified with.

Each student in her turn will explain why she chose that quote and what it means to her.

The teacher will use quotes such as:

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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of

us. Helen Keller

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden

when the flowers are dead .Oscar Wilde

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of

unconditional love and acceptance .

Brian Tracy

Love is when the other person's happiness is more

important than your own .H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

True love stories never have endings.

Richard Bach

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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone .

Orson Welles

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved .

George Sand

The most important thing in the world is

family and love .John Wooden

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that

is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides .

Audrey Hepburn

Love and compassion are necessities, not

luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the

smile is the beginning of love.

Mother Teresa

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a

microscope .Josh Billings

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never

were .Richard Bach

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Basic Understanding (LOTS)

Vocabulary:

4. Find the definitions of the following words in your milonit/ dictionary.5. Look for these words throughout the poem and highlight them, then write the

definitions you found above the words in the poem.6. Make a story (one paragraph) using as many words as you can from the word list.

Low frequency words:

maidenwinged seraphsCovetedhighborn kinsmanboreSepulcher/tombdisseverbeams

High frequency words:

kingdomBlew (blow)chillingEnvying (envy)risebrightangelsdemons

Lots Questions:

1) What is the reality described in the first two stanzas of the poem?______________________________________________________________________________

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2) What happened to break this utopia (perfect world)? ______________________________________________________________________________

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3) The narrator mentions twice in the poem the reason for the untimely death of his Beloved:

“And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea, and

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;”

What is the reason the narrator gives for Annabel Lee’s premature death?

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4) Copy a line to show how strong their love was:

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5) What two things remind the poet of his lost love in the poem "Annabel Lee"?  _____________________________________________________________________

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“Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea(That the wind came out of the cloud by

night,Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”.

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General Activity to teach the HOTS: Making Connections

1) Make a connection between the following pieces of information:

a) One of your friends wears glasses.

b) You saw your friend in an optic store trying on contact lenses. The next day your friend came to class without wearing her glasses.

What conclusion can you draw from making a connection between the two events?

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2) Give an example of your own of two pieces of information and the conclusion one can

reach by making a connection between the two events.

a)______________________________________________________________________

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b)

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Conclusion:

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Application of   HOTS   to Text

In this section, we would explore the connection that we can make

between the real women in Poe’s life and the one portrayed in the poem

Annabelle Lee.

The Women in Edgar Allan Poe’s Life

Poe’s mother ELIZABETH POE died at the age of 24 and left 2 years old Poe

without a maternal figure for many years.

FRANCES VALENTINE ALLAN: she and her husband took

Edgar in after his mother’s death. She was an important figure

in Poe’s life and died in 1829.

VIRGINIA ELIZA CLEMM:  was Poe’s cousin who became his

wife when she was thirteen. Virginia became the central female

figure in his life. She died of tuberculosis . Poe died two and a half

years later.

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During these two and a half years, Poe had a relationship with SARAH

ELMIRA ROYSTER, which he knew when he was 17 years old and

now resumed his relationship

With her.

SARAH HELEN WHITMAN:  Poe was engaged for a short time to

sarah, an engagement that they broke off. Less than a year later,

Edgar Allan Poe was dead.

Application of the HOTS (Making Connection) to the text

1) To what degree do events in the poem similar to events that occurred in the author’s own life?__________________________________________________________________

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2) What does the poet mean when he says:

” That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling, and killing my Annabel Lee.”

What is the cause of death in the poem and what causes the death of Poe’s wife in real life? Is there a similarity between the two deaths?

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3) Annabelle Lee is the last poem that Poe wrote. He died shortly after. One of the

main themes of the poem is Love that never dies. Can you find significance in

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the fact that this is the last poem written by Poe and how can it be related to the

themes in the poem?

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Application of HOTS (Making Connection) to the students’ lives

1) When do we make connection in our lives?

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2) How being able to make connections help us in our lives?

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Additional Analysis and Interpretation questions

1) What are the main themes present in the poem?Quote the line in which you find the following themes: Love ____________________________________________________________ Envy _____________________________________________________________ Everlasting love ____________________________________________________ Memories _________________________________________________________ Dealing with Death _________________________________________________ Happiness ________________________________________________________ Beauty ___________________________________________________________

2) Identify the words/ phrases that repeat themselves throughout the poem. How do they contribute to meaning of the poem?

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Kingdom by the seaLoveAnnabelle Lee

The speaker is consumed by Annabelle Lee and their love in an ideal and utopic world.

Literary Term: setting

A setting is “where and when” the story takes place, or the background against which the story unfolds. The setting includes:

a. The geographic location, scenery, or the inside of a home or other placeb. The social community in which the story unfolds (upper class, working class etc.)c. The season or time period

3) What is the setting of the poem? How do you think it contributes to the meaning of the poem?

The setting of the poem occurs in a “kingdom by the sea”, “many and many a year ago”

The setting of the poem creates an atmosphere of a fairy tale, and makes the love between the speaker and Annabelle Lee an “out of this world” love, love without boundaries of space and time, love that crosses heaven and earth, love that conquers all, an everlasting love. Annabelle Lee is the unattainable princess in the poem that the speaker worships.

Bridging Text and Context

One of the quotes by Edgar Allan Poe is about a death of a beautiful woman.

Poe believed that:

“The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.”

Connect this quote to the poem Annabelle Lee

Answer:

In his quote, Poe states that the theme of a

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death of a beautiful woman is the most

Suitable topic for a poem. In the poem

Annabelle Lee, the speaker describes his

“Stronger than life” Love to his

beautiful Annabelle Lee that died

pre-maturely as a result of a chilling wind

that the envious angels sent. There is a

repetition throughout the poem of the phrase: “My beautiful

Annabel Lee”. The speaker emphasized his unconditional

admiration and love toward Annabelle Lee, and the fact that she

is dead makes his love to her an unattainable and “out of this

world” love. The speaker accentuates her death by mentioning

variation names of a grave. He mentions three times Annabelle

Lee’s current residing place: “To shut her up in a sepulcher”’ and

at the end of the poem: “In the sepulcher there by the sea, In her

tomb by the sounding sea.”

In conclusion, we can see how this quote connects to our poem

because the main theme of the poem is the death of the

speaker’s beautiful lover, his way of dealing with her loss and the

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love that continues after her death, strong, as was when she was

alive.

Post Reading ActivityOption 1:

Select two images from the internet that illustrate the poem Annabel Lee. Make a comparison between the two images. In your answer, you may refer to the following aspects:

How each of the illustration captures features in the poem such as mood, atmosphere, themes etc.

What is the focus in the illustrations; what aspects of the poem are conveyed in the illustrations.

How the two illustrations differ from each other and how they are compare in terms of their artistic expression. You may refer to features such as composition, color scheme, light and shade etc.

Your essay should include the images you selected along with 2-3 paragraphs of your analysis.

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Option 2:

Make a short film/a video clip demonstrating the events in the poem. In your clip, you must relate to the three stages described in the poem: the lovers’ childhood, the death of Annabel Lee and the dealing of the speaker with her loss. Your movie should be accompanied by reading of the poem in the appropriate places or writing your own version in your own words.

Option 3:

Create a comic strip or a photo album in which the events of the poem are conveyed. In your comic or photo album, you must relate to the three stages described in the poem: the lovers’ childhood, the death of Annabel Lee and the dealing of the speaker with her loss. Please include lines from the poem in the appropriate places. If you would like, you may use comics makers internet sites such as

http:www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/

http:www.pimpampum.net.bubblr/

http:www.tinyur.com/kyv6y3c

Or for a photo album

http:www.pimpampum.net/bookr/index.php

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Personal Response Grade ________________ Name: _____________________

1) What literary texts did you study this year?

1.________________________________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________________________________

2) What text did you enjoy the best? Explain why?

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3) Which text did you enjoy the least? Explain why?

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4) Which character or part of the text did you relate the most and why?

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5) What HOTS did you learn?

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6) Which HOTS seemed most relevant to your own life? and how?

7) What new things did you learn?

8) Do you think that you made a progress since the beginning of the year?In what way?

9) Did you enjoy learning, analyzing, and completing the tasks based on the text?

10) Which component of the log did you mostly enjoy, and why?

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Summative Assessment - Annabel Lee by Edgar Alan Poe

LOTS Questions (45 Points)

Answer the following:

1) What is the reality described in the first two stanzas of the poem?

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2) What happened to Annabel Lee?

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3) According to the poet, what is the reason for Annabel Lee’s pre-mature death?______________________________________________________________________________

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4) What does the speaker of the poem do that shows he cannot live without his beloved?

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5) What two things remind the poet of his lost love in the poem "Annabel Lee" during the night hours?  

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HOTS Questions (40 points)

6) Name one of the HOTS you have learned in connection to the poem “Annabel Lee” and

write how it enriched your understanding of the poem.

Name of HOTS __________________________

It helped me understand the poem better because

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7) What are the main themes in the poem?

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8) What is the setting of the poem? How do you think it contributes to the meaning of the poem?

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Bridging Text and Context (15 points)

9) Virginia Eliza Clemm was Poe’s cousin who became his wife when she was thirteen. Virginia became the central female figure in his life. In 1847, Poe’s wife became ill with tuberculosis and died. Edgar was devastated by the loss of his wife and started abusing alcohol. His depression intensified over the next few years. On October 3, 1849, Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore, wearing the clothes of another person. He died four days later.

Connect this information to the poem “Annabel Lee"

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Answer Key:

1) The reality described in the first two stanzas of the poem is the strong love between the speaker and his beloved Annabel Lee. The speaker and Annabel Lee lived and loved “in the kingdom by the sea”. Their love was so strong until the seraphs in heaven were jealous of their love.

2) Annabel Lee died of a wind that “chilled and killed” her.3) The reason for Annabel Lee’s death is the jealousy of the angels that desired the strong

love between the speaker and Annabel Lee.4) The speaker lies at night by Annabel Lee’s grave.5) The light of the moon and the stars.6) One of the HOTS associated with the poem is Making Connections.

It helped me understand the poem better because in many ways the poet’s own life and the role of his love to his wife in real life resemble the main themes in the poem of love, memories and coping with death.

7) Love Coping with lossAn eternal LoveNothing can come between a true love

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Memories

8) The setting of the poem occurs in a “kingdom by the sea”“, many and many a year ago”

The setting of the poem creates an atmosphere of a fairy tale, and makes the love between the speaker and Annabelle Lee an “out of this world” love, love without boundaries of space and time, love that crosses heaven and earth, love that conquers all, an everlasting love. Annabelle Lee is the unattainable princess in the poem that the speaker worships.

9) Poe married Virginia Clemm when she was very young at the age of 13. Virginia became “the central figure in his life”. Virginia died of TB, a disease that mostly affects the lungs. Merely two years later, Poe himself found his death after suffering from a depression and alcoholism. In the poem Annabel Lee, the speaker states that the love between himself and his beloved happened when “[he] was a child and she was a child”, just like in real life, Poe married Virginia in such a young age. In addition, the cause of death in the poem, the wind that the envious angels sent, a wind that “chilled and killed” Annabel Lee, may echo the symptoms of TB that killed Poe’s wife such as coughing and chills that are characteristics of the disease. Moreover, in the poem, after Annabel Lee’s death, the speaker cannot find peace and is surrounding himself by her memories, likewise Poe, cannot recover from the death of his wife and is found two years later drunk and died shortly after.

Poem pouch

I will include the following items/ pictures that are related to the poem

1) A fairy tale book that begins with “once upon a time”2) An illustration of a strong wind3) A blue cloth representing the sea4) Sand that I will sprinkle on top of the blue cloth to create a shore5) 2 figurine of children (out of play mobile or Legos) 6) A picture of angels in heaven shoot an arrow/ with a sword toward

earth7) A picture of snow white dead in her coffin8) Cuts up of 2 hearts, and by putting them on top of each other, they

become one9) A picture of a moon by the sea

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10) A picture of an illustration for the poem

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