I taught 7th grade English for a year and we did an entire unit on Edgar Allan Poe.

Here are the best stories in my opinion:

The Tell-Tale Heart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tell-Tale_Heart

The Murders in the Rue Morgue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue

The Black Cat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cat_%28short_story%29

The Masque of the Red Death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death

The Pit and the Pendulum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pit_and_the_Pendulum

Good luck!

inspite of the fact that i like Poe extra, Shakespeare actual did no longer write regularly approximately love or lust. inspect A Midsummer night’s Dream for some satire, it is hilarious. Or King Henry IV, a historic play, it is amazingly complicated and has large characters. Othello is likewise a large one. Shakespeare grew to become right into a large author, he should not be missed merely by way of fact R&J, arguably his maximum properly-many times used artwork in united states of america right this moment, seems to be too centred on love. That reported, I sometimes locate Shakespeare’s writing to be overly rhetorical and, frankly, somewhat boring. My own decision is for Poe.

the raven i did that when i was in high school because its the easiest to understand

The only one I know is ‘The Raven’