First we’ll talk a little about who Edgar Allan Poe was and then I’ll read out loud the short story The Purloined Letter. After that we’ll discuss the story and any vocabulary the students might not know. Then we’ll talk about the time period the story was written in, the clues that were given, and how the story inspired other writers like Mr. Conan Doyle (who created Sherlock Holmes). Since it’s one of Edgar Allan Poe’s longer short stories we’ll take two classes to read it. We’ll start the second class with some review of what happened before.