Questions after each part of the poem were:

1. Whats the setting at atmosphere?
2. Whats your first impression of the main character?
3. Whats your prediction about whats going to happen through at the story?
4. What evidence suggests the narrator is a mad man?
5. Describe the grotesque Gothic elements during this section
6. How does the man describe how he will dismember the body?
7. Where did the ringing come from?

Podcast is done!

Yayy! step 1 is done, now we can go right into our lesson plan next class. I like being creative like this and it would get high school students more interested in my lesson if I chose to do this instead of just reading a poem.

Today my group needs to podcast the poem completely and get started on the questions. I liked Sandra's' idea to put 2 questions between each each persons part of the reading so if you were to do this with a class they could answer them better then trying to remember little details in a long poem they just read at the end. We have one more day in the computer lab so Iam hoping we get a lot accomplished today.

End of Day 2 podcasting

We divided up the parts of the poem by Edger Allen Poe and tried to podcast the first two pages of it. It did not work and there was not enough time to fix it so we will have to wait till next class to try it again. Once were finished with speaking the poem and we can add graphics and sounds it will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Last class, we learned how to start our podcast and get comfortable with doing it. I got put with a new group and already knew the girls in it which is good, however that means not doing the subject i was planning on. It will be easier to complete this assignment with people rather than alone. This class we are suppose to watch a video and post a video on our bog so we will probably learn how to do that and do our blogs again.

First day in the computer lab, I expect to be shown examples of podcasts and how to start making my own. My partner is not here today so ill be doing this myself. Podcasting is a way to bring a story, speach to life using your own voice. Students can podcast or can listen a teachers podcast when they are home as a way to study. I hope to be able to use this in my own classroom.

Today I learned how to post my first blog. This was a good way to practice speaking into a microphone and hearing myself. It was difficult to do this without a partner but because I see how it is important for this project.

http://mbader22.podomatic.com

podcast topic Abraham Lincolns' Gettysburg Address which is the most quoted speech in US history.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm