Daily Lessons for Teaching The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" begins with an epigraph. The epigraph tells a story with the moral that no mystery is unsolvable. This epigraph relates to the story because it offers the same moral message and foreshadowing. The epigraph plays a large role in The Narrator's view of Dupin.

1) 1. Class discussion: The epigraph in the beginning of the...
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