By: Alicia Briley

The literary period of Romanticism was artistic, musical and an intellectual movement that originated in Europe. Romanticism focused on emotion and individualism as well as nature. The Gothic literary period of American literature is just a sub-genre of Romanticism. The Gothic period occurred from the year 1800 to 1850. Since Gothic literature is a branch of fiction presented through many combinations of horror, mystery and romantic elements. Our lesson plan will be focusing on teaching 4^th graders a poem. We decided on “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe and the teaching tool will be doing is a podcast. I think this approach for this project will be helpful to educators and learners. When teaching with different approaches to the Gardner Intelligences, I do believe that helps educators learn that there is more than one type of way to learn a topic, event or subject to teach elementary students.

When creating our podcast, I will be touching on the musical aspect of the poem and the style in which it is written. Amber will be focusing on the natural intelligence. In the poem, “The Raven”, there are many different details that can help with the natural and musical intelligences. I mentioned once before in an earlier blog post that “The Raven” includes different forms of symbolism throughout the poem. I was thinking for the musical intelligence that I would describe and depict in the podcast lesson plan the sounds, noises and way the style of the poem was written.

The work that remains to be done is just filming and doing the final touches on the podcast lesson plan video.

I wanted to create this teaching tool to help inspire other educators and to tell educators that there is many different techniques and ways a student may learn. Since deciding on our two Gardner intelligences I do believe by creating this teaching tool will help students further improve their creativity and imaginative skills. With using this teaching tool, we hope educators, future educators and students will have a better understanding of the poem, the significant of the author and literary period at the time in which, “The Raven” was written. Also, I agree with Amber I am excited to see how the final product comes out as well as our fellow classmate lesson plans.

Annotated Bibliography

SULLIVAN, T. (2018). How to Create Your Own Successful Podcast. PC Magazine, 145. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=131415872&site=eds-live&scope=site

This source is credible because it goes into detail step by step on how create your own but successful podcast. Also, this a popular source because it is a website teaching the viewer how to create your own successful podcast. This website has a lot of information that we will be using to help better our knowledge and to complete a creative but successful podcast as the teaching tool in this final project.

Wendy L. Rodabaugh. (1996). Teaching Gothic Literature in the Junior High Classroom. The English Journal, 85(3), 68. https://doi.org/10.2307/820110

This source is credible because Wendy L. Rodabaugh is a journal writer that has been studying classroom behavior. This source can also be an academic source. By choosing this source it helps us to teach the way this literary movement needs to be taught properly. This article provides helpful tips for teaching this topic and how to prevent behavior problems of children in the classroom.

Cafiero, G., Christie, P., & Poddighe, S. (2015). Edgar Allan Poe. Acacia Ridge, Qld: Australian eBook Publisher. Retrieved from https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1478002&site=eds-live&scope=site

This source is credible and academic. Because this article discusses a brief timeline of information about Edgar Allan Poe’s life journey and what approach to take on his writings in order to fully understand each of his works in complete context.