Tap a marker to open its stories. Positions are approximate on this historical map.
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Fourteen complete tales by Edgar Allan Poe, unabridged — public domain. Pick one, read it, and talk about what it means — the choice, the virtue, your own life — with your Reading Coach, who asks instead of tells.
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- Voice — Shadow — A Parable Voice
- Art and Life — The Oval Portrait Art and Life
- The Unreliable Narrator — The Tell-Tale Heart The Unreliable Narrator
- Irony — The Cask of Amontillado Irony
- Self-Destruction — The Imp of the Perverse Self-Destruction
- Allegory — The Masque of the Red Death Allegory
- Obsession — Berenice Obsession
- Guilt — The Black Cat Guilt
- The Crowd — The Man of the Crowd The Crowd
- Will — Ligeia Will
- Atmosphere — The Fall of the House of Usher Atmosphere
- Suspense — The Pit and the Pendulum Suspense
- Ratiocination — The Purloined Letter Ratiocination
- The Double — William Wilson The Double
Read the story above, then talk it over with your Reading Coach — this is about what the story means and what you would do, not a quiz on what happened. Type, or tap the mic to speak. Story listening uses the original telling. Select the original text to hear an individual sentence.
Off by default — the student chooses their own lens under "Think deeper". Pick one here and the lesson opens already pointed through that tradition, so a class can argue the same story from the same angle.
Off by default. A teacher turns this on when they want a visible session timer and a timestamped record of how long the work took.
Assign these questions
A teacher or a parent picks the story and assigns its questions — one chapter at a time, not a whole book.
What was saved
This is the real conversation from this device — a teacher would read it, and hear it read back.