Third Annotation - thesis statement.

Allen-Poe, Edgar. Edgar Allen Poe - Selected Works. Baltimore: Gramercy, 1999.

This book has his complete works of litature, from famous stories and poems to unknown stories and poems. Includes a forward by Alix Perry, telling of Poe's life and his harships to write.
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Thesis Statement :

Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most influential writers of our time, and maybe of all time.
He overcame his own obsticles in life. He had been adopted, and ventured out on his own, resding ina few places, but most famously, Baltimore and Philadelphia. As a writer, his typical writing style was new to the time period, ranging from stories of a detective solving murders (Murders in the Rue Morgue), or to his very famous poetry, such as "The tell tale heart" Or, "The Raven." Thus, making him one of the most famous and influential writers of our time.

2nd annotation

Brown, Arthur. "Death and telling in Poe." April 1994 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. 23 Oct 2008

This article explains Poe's meanings in his work, mostly his preoccupation with death, and how that relates to us, and our own preoccupation with death also. A quote i really liked and might use is, " Poe's task is always the same as our own - to tell what cannot, or should not, be told." I like it because it shows thatpoe was a very controversial writer.

NHD 1st annotation

Poe Museum, "Poe's life." 2007-2008 20 Oct 2008 http://www.poemuseum.org/.

This website is for Poe's Museum. It has a variety of sources, including aritcles, biograpies of his life, books, pictures, and most importantly, Poe's many authored/published works.

NHD topic choice.

Me & Ashley chose Edgar Allen Poe, because we figured he'd be the type of individual no one would really pick, although he's a really well known poet. Also, we picked him because we really wanted to do a writer and/or poet of some sort seeing as how writers had a HUGE impact in history. So choosing edgar allen poe seemed like a good fit, in part because he was such a great writer, had a huge impact on history, and also, the Edgar Allen Poe house is right in th city.

Last Week's service learning reflections

Last week we didnt do much, except for a little bit of research (AGAIN). 

My reflection is that this recycling group is almost a waste of time. We could be actually making a difference by actually DOING something, but instead all we do is TALK about doing, but we never do anything. The closest we've come to doing anything was a trash pick up around the city, and that was even the original or planned idea. Plus, all we found was one, maybe two pieces of trash. 

Each night at a certain time, we're supposed record the trash on our streets for data, which is probably the most productive thing we've done since we started, & i'm not counting the letters saying thank you for the scales we aren't using because we haven't collected any trash to actually weigh. 

Service Learning (an update)

In my group, we do recycling. It's been okay so far, slow progress, not quite sure what our goal if for the rest of the year, but either way we made some type of group progress.
All of us were assigned a different topic and mine was aluminum. I had to do research on aluminum; how it's recycled, what becomes of it and so far. We also did a walking tour around the city to pick up trash.

Service Learning

My service learning group was about recycling. We discussed: 

*recycling around the city

*recycling in school and in classrooms

* Use of green products

*how to clean the city and our communities up. 

We thought about putting recycling bins in classrooms and all around the school. We also decided to clean up our neighborhoods, and try to use 'green' products in the school, like recycled paper for our printers.