Since I am a Language Arts teacher, I am always looking for better ways to introduce new authors and poets to my class in new and exciting ways. Around Halloween, I like to read "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe to my class a little break from the norm and to get in the Halloween mood. Somehow I think the class would prefer to watch an expert act out the tale instead of listening to me try to do a creepy voice. These first two links are "The Tell-Tale Heart" as portrayed by Vincent Price. Something about Mr. Price acting this out is pretty spooky. (The part he reads in Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is the spookiest part of the whole song : )!)
It's in two parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LNjgv5p3Ek
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM-tAb-bM-s&feature=related
This next link is "The Raven" also acted out by Vincent Price. Not quite as spooky as "The Tell-Tale Heart," but still can be a bit creepy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FID1CiB4bcU&feature=related
These next three links are for a unit I do with some Holocaust related material. I think the imagry is very important as a pre-novel lesson to get the students into a mind set of how awful this part of history was. I can tell them about it all I like, but hearing about it and actually seeing the places we'll talk about and seeing the aftermath of it is completely different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4isG90mWJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKPeYWYGYuY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mgalP8cd5s&feature=related
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