Poe+Webquest

=Edgar Allan Poe WebQuest=

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 * Event || Date/Year || Importance || Source - Website Address ||
 * Birth || January 19,1809 || On the back of a miniature portrait of herself, Elizabeth Poe wrote: “For my little son Edgar, who should ever love Boston, the place of his birth, and where his mother found her best, and most sympathetic friends. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * Poe's father died || October 19,1810 || His death is a legend. "Apperantly he did not die in New York" The legend is that either of both Poe's parents died in a fire in Richmond Theater on December 26,1811 is romantic fiction. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * Poe's mother died || December 8,1811 || The exact cause of her death is unknown other than some illness,some say its pneumonia. Suggestions that she died from tubercloisis are unfounded. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * He was orphaned || December 26,1811 || He had no parents to support him. He moved in with John and Frances Allen. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * His foster father died. || March 27,1834 || He had no parents again,it was like he was abandond twice. By two different fathers. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * Poe and Viginia got married || May 16,1836 || She was his first wife and she was thirteen years old. Also she was his first cousin. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * "The Raven" || January 29,1845 || The poem made him very famous,but he only earned fourteen dollars. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * Virginia dies || January 30,1847 || She died of tuberculosis. Just like his mother died. It seemed like everyone that was close to him was getting that disease and dying from it. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * Poe's second wife || July ?,1849 || Elmira Royster Shelton would have to give up a large portion of inheritence from her husband, like said in his will. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||
 * Death || October 7,1849 || Poe's death is surrounded by mystery and speculation. || [|www.eapoe.org] ||

Journal #1 Dear Diary, My mom was a very good mother. She did everything for our family. Then one day she started getting very ill, and come down with the disease tuberculosis. I was standing at her bedside every minute I could and watched her get sicker and sicker everyday. Then on December 8, 1811 she died in her bed.

Journal #2 Dear Diary, I wrote the most horrifying poem today, January 29, 1845. The poem was called "The Raven". It made me so famous that it went around the whole world. The bad part about it was I only earned fourteen dollars. It scared the little kids and even gave people nightmares.

Journal #3 Dear Diary, I just married the most beautiful girl that I have ever seen. She is my first wife and we had to lie about her age so we could get married. She is thirteen and my first cousin. She came down with the disease called tuberculosis. I had to carry her to the table to eat, or bring her food to her. Sadly she got sicker and better all the time, but then on January 30, 1847 she passed away.

Journal #4 I think Poe died from all the drinking he did before the night he was found laying in the street unconscious. He drank all the time because of the loss of his first wife. Also because of the loss of all of his other family members with the disease tuberculosis. When he wrote the poem "The Raven" he expected to make a lot of money but instead all he made was fourteen dollars. In conclusion he drank a lot because of various things that happend in his life that was very said.