T-6 SChOLASTiC SCOPe TeACher’S ediTiOn • OCTOber 29, 2007 U S E S : C O P Y M A C H I N E , O P A q U E P R O j E C T O R , O R T R A N S P A R E N C Y M A S T E R F O R O v E R H E A D P R O j E C T O R S C H O L A S T I C I N C G R A N T S S U B S C R I B E R S O F S C H O L A S T I C S C O P E P E R M I S S I O N T O R E P R O D U C E T H I S P A G E F O R U S E I N T H E I R C L A S S R O O M S C O P Y R I G H T © 2 0 0 7 B Y S C H O L A S T I C I N C A L L R I G H T S R E S E R v E D Name: ___________________________________ Class: ___________________ Date: _____________ Actve v pave Voce i a passv stc, t sujct os ot pfom t acto examPLe: “The Pit and the Pendulum” was written by Edgar Allan Poe i a actv stc, t sujct pfoms t acto examPLe: Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum” Stgt t followg stcs y cagg t passv voc to a actv voc sChOLAsTiC sCOpE skiLLs 1 Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is considered the father of modern horror fiction by many scholars ________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 Orphaned before his third birthday, Poe was raised by foster parents in Virginia ________________________________________________________________________________________ 3 Many dark and brilliant stories and poems were written by him ________________________________________________________________________________________ 4 A new literary genre at the time, the short story was developed by Poe and his contemporaries ________________________________________________________________________________________ 5 Through Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” and other tales, the genre of detective fiction was invented ________________________________________________________________________________________ 6 In Poe’s crime stories, readers are taken inside the mind of a clever detective ________________________________________________________________________________________ 7 Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” was written from the point of view of an unreliable narrator ________________________________________________________________________________________ 8 The truth is misrepresented by unreliable narrators ________________________________________________________________________________________ 9 What really happened must be discovered by the reader ________________________________________________________________________________________ 10 Today, Poe is considered by many to be one of the greatest American authors of the 19th century ________________________________________________________________________________________ now avalable a a pDF at colatccom /coe! R E U SA B L E