The pit and the pendulum story quest Continue Introduction: Edgar Allan Poe Yam and pendulum set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Throughout this WebQuest, you will become familiar with the Inquisition and why Po used it as the subject of his terrible story. 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This music is universal, so that everyone can relate to the mood he offers, and understand that it is communication. Find your own scary music and share it with the class. Eerie Music Explore the online Po Museum, and navigate through some of the museum's highlights. This will prepare you for the Gothic literature experience. It is a pattern walk that introduces the background of the story. Museum Poe also explore the Poe Stories website to understand how it writes and compares and contrasts these stories with the pit and the pendulum. Poe Stories Vocabulary: Provide students with a story of Yama and pendulum Edgar Allen Poe with some of the keywords highlighted in the text. Before reading the text view the vocabulary below: the following list of words: Confound - confuse or surprise, eloquent - vividly expressive uncertain - not accurately known or defined, irrefutable - impossible to overcome lethargy - prolonged lethargy, unconscious clearly - clearly, mentally sound permeability - unwavering perseverance or commitment permeates - spread throughout the assumption - something assumed, an assumption of voracity - greed for food to discuss old words of fashion and define alternative words and definitions (in groups) Period. Merriam Webster Dictionary Appointment: Complete vocabulary Sheet, which: defines the vocabulary of a word from a dictionary defines a vocabulary of words using a simple language that includes at least 5 visual effects that represent the vocabulary of a word. Vocabulary Leaf Sketches its way through the text Focus: Visualization Meaning When Reading The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Po notice the mood and settings in the text, and how it is formed and refined by specific details. Watch a scene from a short picture of The Pit and the Pendulum read vincent Price's film Version of Pit and the pendulum in the classroom discussion will examine the differences between reading a story and watching a story. Be prepared to discuss the following questions: How will the text end up due to lack of sound and vision? How does video use sound and vision to improve text? Work in groups to identify the positive and negative aspects of both environments. Introducing our findings to the class. Destination: Choose one scary place that you can see most clearly. Complete the Sketch table with your own face scene, visibly defining settings, terrifying location, or situation. Add touch details such as lightning, thunder or heavy rain. The state, why this place inspires fear. Sketch Sheet Consider Edgar Allan On Twitter account for perspective on literature tweets. Edgar Allan On Twitter account Form Group of 4. Each group will be given a specific section of the story to think/share their thoughts. Each group should summarize its section in a tweet of 140 characters, in the style of a puzzle. First, each student in the group develops and shares an individual tweet by reading their individual tweet aloud to other members of the group. Students then discuss tweets and decide whose tweet works best, or review and develop a group text that includes a portion of each tweet. Thus, everyone has the opportunity to summarize part of the text, as well as compare and contrast their resume to their colleagues. Students come together and share their tweets in the order of history, the puzzle comes together as each student group has a certain piece of history that they need to summarize. Purpose: On a student summary sheet write a one-page summary of the entire pit and pendulum story using at least 5 vocabulary words. The summary should be written in plain language for the primary school audience. Record their story with Vocaroo.com and include terrible music and sound effects. Post your Vocaroo website on a summary sheet. Summary of the working Vocaroo.com for other purposes, see The Pit and the Pendulum (disambigation). Pit and PendulumAuthorErdgar Allan PoeCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenre (s) HorrorShort StoryPublished in Gift: Christmas and New Year's Gift for typePeriodicalPublisherCarey and HartMedia typePrintPublication date1842 Pit and Pendulum is a story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual Gift: Christmas and New Year's Gift for 1843. The story of the torment experienced by the prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, although Po distorts historical facts. The story's narrator describes his experience of being tortured. The story is particularly effective in inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy emphasis on feelings such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many Po stories that help the supernatural. Traditional elements set in popular horror tales at the time followed, but the critical reception was mixed. The tale has been adapted for the film several times. The plot summary of the unnamed narrator appeared before the sinister judges of the Spanish Inquisition. Neither gives any explanation as to why he is there, or the charges on which he is currently on trial. In front of him are seven tall white candles on the table, and as they burn, his hopes for survival are also diminishing. He is sentenced to death, after which he faints and then wakes up to find himself in a completely dark room. At first, the prisoner thinks that he is locked in a grave, but then discovers that he is in the cell. He decides to examine the camera by placing a piece of his robe against the wall so he can count the pace around the room, but he faints before he can measure the entire perimeter. When he wakes up, he finds food and water nearby. He tries to measure the cell again, and discovers that the perimeter measures a hundred steps. When crossing the room, he trips to the hem of his robe and falls, his chin landing on the edge of a deep pit. He realizes that if he hadn't tripped, he would have fallen into this pit. After losing consciousness again, the narrator discovers that the prison is lightly lit and that it is tied to a wooden frame on the back facing the ceiling. Above he is depicted by Father Time, with a razor-sharp pendulum measuring one leg from the horn to the horn suspended from him. The pendulum swings back and forth and slowly descends, designed to kill the narrator eventually. However, he is able to attract rats to him by smearing his connection with the meat left for him to eat. Rats chew through the straps and it slides free just before the pendulum can start to slice into the chest. The pendulum is removed into the ceiling, and the walls become red-hot and begin to move inwards, forcing it slowly to the center of the room and the pit. When he loses his last foothold and begins to to topple, he hears the roar of voices and pipes, the walls are removed, and his hand pulls him to safety. The French army captured the city of Toledo, and the Inquisition fell into the hands of enemies. No Authenticity Po makes no attempt to accurately describe the activities of the Spanish Inquisition, and occupies a significant dramatic license with a broader history, a premise in this story. The rescue is led by Napoleonic General Lasal (who, however, did not command the French occupation of Toledo), and this puts the action during the war on the peninsula (1808-14), centuries after the height of the Spanish Inquisition. The complex torture of this history has no historical parallels in the activities of the Spanish Inquisition in any century, let alone the nineteenth, when only four people were convicted under Charles III and Charles IV. The Inquisition, however, was abolished during the French intervention (1808-13). The primary source of the pendulum torture method is one paragraph in the foreword to the 1826 book The History of the Spanish Inquisition by the Spanish priest, historian and activist Juan Antonio Llorente. Referring to the sub-cy account of a prisoner released from the Madrid Underground in 1820, who allegedly described the method of torture of the pendulum. Most modern sources dismiss this as a fantasy.