miércoles, 18 de junio de 2008

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe ( biography)








Edgar Allan Poe´s biography






Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Born as Edgar Poe in
Boston, Massachusetts, Poe's parents died when he was young. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe and the Allans parted ways. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown.

"The Black Cat" was first published in the
August 19, 1843 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. At the time, the publication was using the temporary title United States Saturday Post.Readers immediately responded favorably to the story, spawning parodies including Thomas Dunn English's "The Ghost of the Grey Tadpole".

The use of the
black cat evokes various superstitions, including the idea voiced by the narrator's wife that they are all witches in disguise. The titular cat is named Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld.

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Born as Edgar Poe in
Boston, Massachusetts, Poe's parents died when he was young. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. After spending a short period at the University of Virginia and briefly attempting a military career, Poe and the Allans parted ways. Poe's publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
Poe switched his focus to prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming known for his own style of literary criticism. His work forced him to move between several cities, including
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York City. In Baltimore in 1835, he married Virginia Clemm, his 13-year-old cousin. In January 1845, Poe published his poem "The Raven" to instant success. His wife died of tuberculosis two years later. He began planning to produce his own journal, The Penn (later renamed The Stylus), though he died before it could be produced. On October 7, 1849, at age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown.

"The Black Cat" was first published in the
August 19, 1843 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. At the time, the publication was using the temporary title United States Saturday Post.Readers immediately responded favorably to the story, spawning parodies including Thomas Dunn English's "The Ghost of the Grey Tadpole".

The use of the
black cat evokes various superstitions, including the idea voiced by the narrator's wife that they are all witches in disguise. The titular cat is named Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld.



Eze, Nico,Meli y Mati


WE ARE READING "THE BLACK CAT" by Edgar Alan Poe

HI kids! hope you have enjoyed reading the short story!
What you have to do now is:
- find information about the author
- find information about the story
YOU CAN ADD IMAGES IF YOU WANT!!
Hands to wheel!
Pat

martes, 13 de mayo de 2008

The famous detective Peter Plant is investigating the robbery of the most important Art gallery in Paris. Last Monday the owner of the gallery found the place so messy and the “guernica” wasn’t there. P.P. is interviewing Jorge Martinez, the security guard.


The famous detective Peter Plant is investigating the robbery of the most important Art gallery in Paris. Last Monday the owner of the gallery found the place so messy and the “guernica” wasn’t there. P.P. is interviewing Jorge Martinez, the security guard.

A famous that I gratly admire

One of the people that I admire is Charly Garcia. He is an argentinian musician, he is tall and thin and he has a moustache who has two colors white and brown. He plays the piano and he had three bands, his names were "Sui Generis", "Seru Giran" and "La maquina de hacer pajaros".
My opinion is: Seru giran is the best band of the rock nacional of every time.
Charly Garcia has a lot of songs and disk, he has more than one hundred songs.
In the recitals is very crazy man he broke the guitars and gave to the public.
Now he doesn´t have a band he is solist and his last disk was "kill gil". My favourite song is Eti leda from seru giran I love this song.
In his carrer he past a lot of thing, he stay in argentina when was the military coup. He is the best!

Damian Hoflejzer

the sad story about Robert Mer

If you don't like to be here, listen to this story about Robert Mer.He was a a good man, but one day when he got up he decided to rob a bank. He went to Banco Nacion in Florida. He took out a bazooka and shot to the window and entered the bank.
When he was into the bank he demanded: " give me all the money or I'll blow up the place." The teller pressed the red botton on the table, and the police officer went to the bank and arrested the robber.
The police went to the place with guns and other stuff. The police entered the bank and the robber went out. The police officer chased after him and they caught him in the street and hit him for a long time.
After the attack the police officer arrested him and was taken to prison in the police car. All the people saw the arrest and thought that he was taken to prison but nobody in the prison saw him. Some people said that the policeman shot him in the police car and threw the body in the English lab at Ort School.by Ezequiel Goldfryd and Matias Aiskovich
I were walking alone, nobody around, I was thinking about him, what were I doing? I didn’t believe what I was doing, I had square …


I arrived to my house when I saw him with the knife, the knife had blood, and he saw me, I asked him what was it, he didn’t answered me, he just saw me…I tried to ran but he stopped me, he said me ¨wait, listen me, I had to do, I didn’t want to do, just… believe in me please… he is in the room… come with me¨ I was crying, I didn’t believe what he did… he opened the door and I saw him he was at the floor, bleeding… I started to cry more, I was __, john said me ¨ I have to do, he was trying to… I was rob much money to a guy, and he __ with it, to talk with the police…¨

...I don’t know how but I started to clean the blood while he __the body…
And now I’m walking at this night, thinking in… what did he do, what did I do, what were we do…. He did a crime and I helped him… We did a crime…