In the course, The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, we will be getting into the headspace of Halloween! We will cover several topics related to reading and responding to literature, in this case, American Literature. We will have a discussion on the author and his place in the canon of American Literature, as well as his personal life and the controversies that surrounded him while he was living. I will also read the poem to the students and assign each a stanza for their own personal critical commentary and provide feedback to them after they speak to the class about their stanza. I will also show visual representations of the poem for another way to receive its messages. Students will write their own stanza that would fit well into the existing poem, which will act as their assessment for the class.