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Early Years
Edgar Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, to traveling actors David Poe Jr. (a Baltimore, Maryland, native) and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins (an emigrant from England). Poe was the couple's second of three children. His brother, William Henry Leonard Poe, was born in 1807, and his sister, Rosalie Poe, was born in 1810. On December 8, 1811, when Poe was just two years old, his mother died in Richmond. His father, who had left the family in 1810, died of unknown circumstances. Henry, as William Henry Leonard was known, lived with his grandparents in Baltimore, while Rosalie and Edgar remained in Richmond. William and Jane Mackenzie adopted Rosalie, and Edgar became the foster son of John and Frances Allan. Poe received his middle name from his foster parents.
In 1815 Allan, a tobacco merchant, moved with his wife and foster son to England in an attempt to improve his business interests there. Poe attended school in Chelsea until 1820, when the family returned to Richmond. John Allan had always hoped that Poe would join his own mercantile firm, but Poe was determined to become a writer and, in particular, a poet. In 1826, he attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Although he distinguished himself academically, Allan denied him financial support after less than a year because of Poe's gambling debts and what Allan perceived to be his ward's lack of direction. Without money, Poe returned briefly to Richmond, only to find that his fiancée, Sarah Elmira Royster, under the direction of her family, had married an older and wealthier suitor, Alexander Shelton.
Disheartened and penniless, Poe left Richmond for Boston where, using the name "A Bostonian," he authored Tamerlane and other Poems (1827), a collection of seven brief, lyrical poems. In particular, "The Lake" employs what would become typical Poe-esque symbolism, with calm waters representing the speaker's repressed emotions, always threatening to dangerously swell. The book's sales were negligible.
Despite having been promoted to sergeant major, Poe became dissatisfied with army life and appealed to his foster father for help in releasing him from his five-year commitment. In a December 1, 1828, letter to Allan, Poe worried that "the prime of my life would be wasted" in the army and threatened "more decided measures if you refuse to assist me." During this tumultuous period, Poe compiled a second collection of verse, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems (1829), but it, too, received little attention. Critics described the poems in terms ranging from "incoherent" to "beautiful and enduring."
With Allan's help, Poe left the army and was admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, which he attended from 1830 until 1831. Poe thrived academically, but again experienced financial problems, this time running afoul of both his foster father and school officials. Expelled from West Point and disowned by Allan, Poe traveled to Baltimore to reside with his aunt, Maria Clemm, and her young daughter, Virginia. The events of Poe's life from 1831 until 1833 remain relatively obscure.
Out of Obscurity
While living in Baltimore, Poe turned in earnest to his literary efforts. His third volume of verse, Poems (1831), hints at the Gothic sensibility—in particular, a preoccupation with death and psychological instability—that would become his trademark. For instance, "Irene" (revised as "The Sleeper") features a distraught young man who, at midnight, mourns over his lover's corpse: "Strange is thy pallor! strange thy dress, / Strange above all, thy length of tress, / And this all solemn silentness!" Poe received some help and encouragement from the literary editor and critic John Neal, but his poems continued to attract scant notice.
One of the competition's judges was John Pendleton Kennedy, a Whig Party politician, literary editor, and author of Swallow Barn, or a Sojourn in the Old Dominion (1832). In 1835, Kennedy encouraged Poe to apply for an assistant editor position at the Southern Literary Messenger, a Richmond-based magazine founded the previous year by Thomas Willis White. Poe received the job and was soon promoted to editor despite clashing with White over his—Poe's—excessive drinking.
In May 1836, for the first time feeling financially secure enough to marry, Poe wed his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm. Historians disagree over whether they consummated their marriage. Virginia's mother, Poe's aunt, kept house for the couple and continued to do so for Poe after Virginia's death.
That Fay was a darling of the New York literary establishment helped provoke a long-running feud between Poe and Lewis Gaylord Clark, editor of New York City's Knickerbocker Magazine and an ardent defender of northern literary sensibilities. Poe and Clark insulted one another in print for years, with Clark, in 1845, calling Poe "'nothing if not critical,' and even less than nothing at that."
A New Literary Sensibility
Poe's sharp-tongued criticisms may have won him lifelong enemies, but they also served to articulate an important new literary sensibility. Poems should be short, he argued, and poems should be beautiful. In his "Letter to Mr. B—," published in the Messenger (July 1836), Poe mocks William Wordsworth for his "long wordy discussions by which he tries to reason us into admiration of his poetry," and then, after quoting the poet on the subject of a "snow-white mountain lamb," sarcastically rejoinders: "Now, we have no doubt this is all true: we will believe it, indeed we will, Mr. W. Is it sympathy for the sheep you wish to excite? I love a sheep from the bottom of my heart."
Over the years, Poe also argued that the short story was the supreme form in fiction, meant to be tightly constructed and convey a single, unified impression. In Poe's case, that impression was most often fear, foreboding, and dread, as evidenced in short stories like "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846), which describes an excruciatingly slow plan of revenge. And for such unified impressions to take hold, brevity—a term Poe calculated to mean a work that took no longer than ninety minutes to read—was crucial. "As the novel cannot be read at one sitting," he wrote in 1842 in an admiring review of a Hawthorne collection, "it cannot avail itself of the immense benefit of totality. Worldly interests, intervening during the pauses of perusals, modify, counteract and annul the impressions intended."
Poe did not limit his fiction to Gothic tales, however. From 1833 until 1836, he attempted and failed to find a publisher for his collection of satirical stories, Tales of the Folio Club. In the book, club members meet monthly to critique each other's stories, all of which turn out to be caricatures of the styles of popular writers from Poe's day. His critical ax never dull, Poe still managed to place a number of the stories in journals such as the Messenger and the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.
After Richmond
After years of battling the northern literary elite, Poe left the Messenger in January 1837 and moved north himself, working in various editorial posts, most notably at Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia. Sometime between November 1839 and January 1840, his two-volume collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published, providing a broader audience to many of his previously published stories. In stories such as "The Fall of the House of Usher," Poe rebutted charges of "Germanism and gloom," Germany being a preferred literary source for his Gothic sensibility. "If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis," he wrote, "I maintain that terror is not of Germany but of the soul—"
His famous opening to "Usher" suggests that he more than walked the walk of his literary philosophy, expertly compressing Teutonic gloom into a single storm cloud of a sentence: "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher."
Graham's, meanwhile, featured some of Poe's most assertive original fiction. In "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (April 1841), for instance, Poe introduced the detective story prototype that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would make so famous with his Sherlock Holmes episodes: an uncannily observant detective solves the crime while accompanied by his friend, who also narrates the events. In "The Masque of the Red Death" (May 1842), Poe traded the hyper-logic of detectives for the psychological horror of disease and inevitable death, describing a masquerade ball set in a plague-stricken Italian castle.
Later Years
Nor did Poe's unpredictable moods and pugilistic criticism help him make friends in literary circles. In October 1845, he annoyed a Boston audience prepared for a talk about poetry by instead reciting his long and obscure poem "Al Aaraaf." He continued to lampoon in print his fellow writers, including Thomas Dunn English, whom he worked with in Philadelphia. Some critics have even suggested that Poe used his feud with English as motivation for his revenge fantasy in "The Cask of Amontillado."
When Broadway Journal went under in January 1846, Poe lost the most reliable venue for his attacks. And having alienated so many of his fellow writers and editors, he found it difficult to publish and, therefore, to make money. Then, in January 1847, his wife Virginia died of tuberculosis, sending Poe into bouts of depression and torturous grief, during which he reportedly sought the comforts of alcohol. Some historians have speculated that his alcohol use was complicated by either diabetes or hypoglycemia, which would have resulted in violent mood swings. This, in turn, might help to explain later portraits of Poe—in particular from the pen of Rufus W. Griswold, who had succeeded him as editor at Graham's—as an irreclaimable alcoholic.
The move never happened, however. A few weeks later, Poe was found unconscious and dangerously ill outside a Baltimore tavern. He died in the hospital on October 7, 1849, and received a swift burial in his grandfather Poe's cemetery lot in the Westminster Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Baltimore. Historians have long disagreed about the exact cause of his death, suggesting everything from rabies to alcoholism.
Poe had given Griswold a memorandum from which to write a biography of him, but the editor's use of this work was distinctly unflattering—even treacherous. Griswold quickly produced a polemic obituary and soon after undertook to publish a multivolume edition of Poe's writings, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe (1850–1856), as well as an unjust and inflammatory fifty-page memoir detailing Poe's life. This sketch, subsequently used by many later biographers, helped in part to create the caricature of Poe that has survived in American literary legend—as a death-obsessed, drug-addled debaucher.
Perhaps the legend was justice for Poe's sometimes unfair treatment of his fellow writers. Regardless, Poe's work—unlike so many others'—has survived. His poems and short stories, while varied in theme and subject matter, have nonetheless come to occupy a genre unto themselves—one forever identified by the heart-stopping screams of "The Tell-Tale Heart" or the dread-inducing "Nevermore" of "The Raven."
Poe's room on the West Range at the University of Virginia is open for viewing by the public. In Richmond, the Poe Museum, which first opened in 1922, features a large collection of the writer's manuscripts, letters, first editions, and personal belongings.
Major Works
- Tamerlane and Other Poems: By a Bostonian (1827)
- Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems (1829)
- Poems, By Edgar A. Poe (1831)
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, of Nantucket (short novel, 1838)
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840)
- Prose Romances: The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Man That Was Used Up (1843)
- The Raven and Other Poems (1845)
- Tales (1845)
- Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848)
- The Literati (1850)
- Politan: An Unfinished Tragedy (1923)
Time Line
January 19, 1809 - Edgar Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts.
December 8, 1811 - Edgar Poe's mother dies in Richmond. His father had deserted the family earlier in the year. Edgar, at the age of two, becomes the foster son of John and Frances Allan, from whom Poe receives his middle name.
1815–1820 - John Allan, Edgar Allan Poe's foster father, moves with his wife and foster son to England. Poe attends school in Chelsea until 1820, when the family returns to Richmond.
1826 - Edgar Allan Poe attends the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Although he distinguishes himself academically, financial troubles cause him to withdraw and return to Richmond, where he discovers that his fiancée, Sarah Elmira Royster has married an older and wealthier suitor, Alexander Shelton. Poe then moves to Boston.
1827 - Under the name "A Bostonian," Edgar Allan Poe publishes his first collection of poems, titled Tamerlane and other Poems.
May 26, 1827 - Edgar Allan Poe enlists in the United States Army under the pseudonym "Edgar A. Perry."
December 1, 1828 - Edgar Allan Poe writes a letter to his foster father, John Allan, expressing his dissatisfaction with the army, in hopes that Allan can help release Poe from his five-year commitment to the service.
December 15, 1828 - While in the U.S. Army, Edgar Allan Poe is ordered to Fort Monroe.
1830 - Edgar Allan Poe, after leaving the United States Army, attends the United States Military Academy at West Point.
1831 - Edgar Allan Poe is expelled from West Point and disowned by his foster father. He moves to Baltimore, Maryland, to live his aunt, Maria Clemm, and her daughter, Virginia.
1831 - Edgar Allan Poe enters five Gothic-style horror and suspense stories in a contest sponsored by the weekly newspaper, the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. Although he does not win a prize, the tales are published anonymously during 1832.
October 1833 - Edgar Allan Poe's story "MS. Found in a Bottle"—about a midnight accident at sea and a mysterious ship that appears out of the "watery hell"—wins a competition sponsored by the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. His poem "The Coliseum" would have been awarded best poem, but the judges prefer not to offer both prizes to a single author.
1835 - John Pendleton Kennedy encourages Edgar Allan Poe to apply for an assistant editor position at the Southern Literary Messenger, a Richmond-based magazine founded the previous year by Thomas Willis White. Poe receives the job and is soon promoted to editor.
May 1836 - Edgar Allan Poe weds his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
January 1837 - Edgar Allan Poe leaves his job as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger and moves north, working in various editorial posts, most notably at Graham's Magazine in Philadelphia.
1845 - Edgar Allan Poe relocates to New York and becomes the editor and then owner of the literary weekly, Broadway Journal.
January 1845 - The New York Evening Mirror publishes Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven," a disturbing account of its grief-stricken narrator's encounter with a bird that knows only one word: "Nevermore."
January 1846 - The literary weekly Broadway Journal, which Edgar Allan Poe edits and owns, goes under.
January 1847 - Edgar Allan Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis, sending Poe into bouts of depression and torturous grief, during which he reportedly seeks the comforts of alcohol.
1849 - When Edgar Allan Poe travels to Richmond for a poetry reading and lecture, he reunites with his one-time fiancée, Elmira Shelton, who is now widowed and wealthy. Poe decides to marry her and move to Richmond.
September 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe departs for Fordham, New York, where he plans to arrange to move his aunt Maria to Virginia. He never makes it to New York.
October 3, 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe is discovered unconscious and dangerously ill inside a Baltimore, Maryland, tavern.
October 7, 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies in the hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and receives a swift burial in his grandfather Poe's cemetery lot in the Westminster Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Historians have long disagreed about the exact cause of his death, suggesting everything from rabies to alcoholism.
1850–1856 - Rufus W. Griswold publishes The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, as well as an unjust and inflammatory fifty-page memoir detailing Poe's life. This sketch helps in part to create the caricature of Poe that has survived in American literary legend—as a death-obsessed, drug-addled debaucher.
1922 - The Poe Museum opens in Richmond, and features a large collection of the writer's manuscripts, letters, first editions, and personal belongings.
1958 - A monument to Edgar Allan Poe is erected in Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia.
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- APA Citation:
Fisher, B. F., IV Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849). (2014, January 7). In Encyclopedia Virginia. Retrieved from http://www.EncyclopediaVirginia.org/Poe_Edgar_Allan_1809-1849.
- MLA Citation:
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin, IV. "Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)." Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 7 Jan. 2014. Web. READ_DATE.
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Freshman midfielder Sarah Breen had a goal and three assists over the weekend as she helped No. 9 ODU to start off 2-0 in CAA action. Down 2-0 to Hofstra on Friday, Breen got the Lady Monarchs on the board off a penalty corner. She also had a pair of assists on the next two goals to give Old Dominion the lead as they scored seven unanswered goals to cruise past the Pride.
On Sunday, she recorded the game-winning assist over No. 8 Northeastern as her shot on a penalty corner was deflected in by fellow freshman Celine Marquet just before the half that ultimately gave the Lady Monarchs the 2-1 win over the Huskies. Breen leads the team in points (14) this season and is tied for the team lead in goals (5).
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Hofstra goalie Kaitlyn De Turo made a career-high 13 saves in Friday's game against Old Dominion.
Old Dominion's win at Northeastern last Sunday was its fourth against a ranked foe this season and its second victory over a team ranked in the top 10.
William & Mary's No. 20 ranking in last week's national poll was the first time since 2006 that the Tribe has landed in the national top 25.
Delaware goalie Megane Simons recorded a career-high 15 saves in her second career start Sunday at No. 14 Wake Forest.
Drexel senior Amanda Fleischut recorded the tying goal and assisted on the winning goal in the Dragons 2-1 victory over James Madison Friday night. She leads the team with four assists on the season.
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Have you ever said anything like that? I have. Yes, I race the Ironman triathlon, but I also live in the real world. I have a job (two actually-lawyer and motivational speaker), a wife and child, a house with chores that need to be done, and a demanding training schedule. Oh, yeah, and I also have type 1 diabetes. I know how hard it is to balance life and exercise. Let's see what we can do.
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I remember thinking about running my first marathon in 1999 (eight years after I was diagnosed with type 1) and wondering, how does anyone have time to do that? A few years later I decided to race triathlons, then to enter the Ironman triathlon, and finally to qualify for and race with the long distance triathlon U.S. National Team. How does anyone with a job, a wife, and children have time for that? Time, however, is the great equalizer. Unlike money or talent, we all have the same amount of time, and it passes at the same speed for everyone. In his sage poem If, Rudyard Kipling reviews the many challenges in life and reminds us to "fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run." Suddenly the unforgiving minute is gone. The year is gone. The decade is gone. I sure am glad I decided to run that marathon a decade ago.
Two important keys are flexibility and good habits. One good habit is early morning exercise, before the kids are up or the day gets too busy. For the working man or woman, I recommend that instead of sitting in a restaurant during lunch break, you work out for a quick 45 minutes or hour several days a week. Pack your workout bag before you leave the house every morning, even if you think you won't have time. Like a Revolutionary War minuteman, you'll have your gear ready to go when the bugle blows. Of course, you must be flexible enough to shorten or skip exercise when your job or family needs you more. They are the most important, especially in this threatening economic recession. Still, you have to be healthy to enjoy your family and handle your job, and exercise is the key to that. Do you find time to sleep, watch TV, or play on the Internet and Facebook, but believe that you don't have time to exercise? You always make time for the things that are important to you.
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In a recent Science NetLinks blog post, Maria Sosa, editor-in-chief of SB&F and contributor to Science NetLinks, listed some of her favorite science books for the Kindle. We'd love to hear your science ebook (or hard copy) suggestions too.
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I love this list even though I don't have a Kindle or e-reader yet. I've actually read a few of the books on this list:
Galileo's Daughter
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Wild Trees
I enjoyed all of these books and found the Henrietta Lacks one very timely. And, I want to read more books by Dava Sobel, who wrote Galileo's Daughter.
Thanks for sharing!
Maria Sosa's list is very interesting! I saw two more interesting (popular) science books list that are quite complementary to this list:
- Science books from the New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/11/popular-science-books-to-put-on-your-christmas-list.html
- The best reviewed popular science books on biology in 2011: http://popsciencebooks.com/best-biology-books/
I also recommend The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I love the way Rebbeca Skloot combines the science with the family history.
Like Maria, I'm a fan of Mary Roach. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers is fascinating but definitely not for the squimish!
Another book I really enjoy is A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Bryson covers a huge amount of science in a very funny and accessible way.
For kids, I recommend picture books from Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long:
An Egg is Quiet
A Seed is Sleepy
A Butterfly is Patient
Steve Jenkins and Robin Page create books with detailed paper collage illustrations including:
Bones: Skeletons and How They Work
Sister & Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World
Jason Chin is another great author and illustrator. His watercolor illustrations are so beautiful:
Coral Reefs
I think Feathers needs to move to the top of my reading list.
If you're interested, you can find the Science article reviewing all the 2012 SB&F Prize finalist here.
I won't lie. I prefer my science reading either to have a narrative, so it reads like a story, or to be embedded within a novel. (Will this information make you revoke whatever science cred I've built up over the years?)
That said, I don't think I'm alone in this. I think the popularity of the Henrietta Lacks book is due, in part, to its style. It's a good story. And I think the persistence of science fiction as a genre attests to people's excitement over the possibilities science holds out for the future, while simultaneously showcasing their fears that those possibilities may only serve to make us more isolated.
I do have some recommendations that are in keeping with my preferences:
To echo Sarah's note above, anything Bill Bryson has ever written is enjoyable and worth reading more than once, because he jams so much information (science and history) in that you'll be sure to find something new in a second perusal. Plus he's funny and, in my mind, people would enjoy science a lot more if it didn't have a reputation of being so ... clinical.
If you're looking for an entry point into the science fiction genre, I don't think you can go wrong with a good Douglas Adams novel. Its science is not too technical and there's plenty of humor to keep you turning (or flicking) the pages. Plus it will help you understand all sorts of nerdy in-jokes, from the Babelfish translation website to Towel Day.
Want something a little less futuristic? Head back in time. Frankenstein would be a good place to start, particularly if you're more comfortable with gothic romance than aliens. Jules Verne's work also will help capture your imagination. I'm currently reading A Journey to the Center of the Earth, where two scholars are about to desend into an extinct volcano. Plus, they're available as free Kindle downloads, so you really can't lose.
And from a YA/older kid angle, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly made my top ten reads list in 2009. (It's also a Newberry Honor book, if you need an endorsement other than mine.) It's the story of an 11-year-old Texas girl growing up in 1899 who, under the tutelage of her gruff grandfather, begins to explore the science of the natural world around her. It's not long before Callie Vee (who's a little lost amidst her six brothers) begins to do some growing of her own, both in her understanding of science and the world and of what it means to be female at the advent of the 20th century. I found the experience of reading The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate to be not dissimilar from a Laura Ingalls Wilder book when I was a kid, so if you know young readers who are enjoying that series, I'd point them toward this novel next.
These are such terrific suggestions, especially the ones you added, Kirsten. I prefer my science reading to have a story behind it too.
Since you brought up Jules Verne, I wanted to point to Maria's blog post on the Prophets of Science Fiction series. The show is an "exploration of the relationship between genre and the constantly-evolving worlds of science and technology." The episode on Jules Verne premieres February 8th.
At ReadWriteThink, we've got some lesson plans other resources on using Science Fiction in the classroom:
We'd love suggestions for other titles or resources!
Thanks Lisa, those are awesome resources. As for science fiction, one of my favorite writers is Ian McDonald. I especially love Brasyl and Cyberabad Days. I just finished his latest, Planesrunner, and it is also quite good and it is the first of a series. I think that this series should be very, very appealing to young adults. One of his favorite topics is multiple universes which is also a hot topic with theoretical physicists.
Brasyl, in fact, is not just my favorite of his books, it is also possibly one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read.
Hey everybody, read this with interest. I have been to Galileo's home in Arcetri, where he was under house arrest. It is where he spent time with this daughter as he became increasingly blind, but he kept his tongue.. Today we covered Pearl Harbor and footage, and continued to discuss how many feel fact is greater than fiction. Now Bill Bryson is an extraordinary writer, in the genre of other greats, like Carl Sagan. Cosmos is still the best series I have ever seen, although now ancient. There is a really neat video called "Einstein's Great Idea", which has so much wonderful information about this history of science, especially Michael Faraday and Lavoisier (sp?). And then there is Hawking, which 5th graders love due to the discussion of Black Holes. Wonderopolis helps generate all of these conversations, and more. Today our 3rd graders loved "Is the Sky falling?"
Louc, have you heard that there is a 13-episode sequel/update to Cosmos planned for release on Fox in 2013? It's produced by Carl Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan, and animator/writer Seth MacFarlane and is supposed to be hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (who has made regular appearances on John Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's shows, so that sounds promising).
I watched videos of Cosmos in my eighth-grade physics class and I remember it fondly. We'll be tuning in. I just wonder if it's too early to set the DVR...
We've been watching a series on Netfilx titled "How the Universe Works", which is fantastic. Might want to check this out.
How cool is that, about the sequel to Cosmos!!!
I teach Astronomy to seniors. We just finished covering ancient astronomy. I show the UNIVERSE series with Neil DeGrassi. It is of the same quality and integrity as Carl Sagan's Cosmos (just more modern)
Absolutely Diane, Neil De Grassi is great.
Hawking's Universe is pretty good. Anything about aliens for 5th graders is fantastic..
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In addition to the books listed above, I recently went to a conference with other biology teachers and heard of a few books to use during the natural selection/evolution unit.
"Survival of the Sickest" by Dr. Sharon Moalem discusses the evolution of disease.
"Your Inner Fish" by Neil Shuban discusses the evolution of the human body.
I would like to find a way to incorporate small sections of the books listed in this discussion into lessons. I don't feel like I have the time to assign reading the whole book but I would love to start using small sections to lead into a lesson or close a unit to generate discussion. If anyone has examples of what they have done (preferably in a 9th grade biology class) I would love to hear them!
Hi Emily,
Science NetLinks has a collection of resources based on winners of the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books. Here are three 9-12 lessons dealing with biology:
The Invisble Kingdom helps students develop an understanding of the characteristics and diversity of microbial life.
Welcome to Your Brain explores how the human brain processes sensory and cognitive information, regulates our emotional life, and forms memories.
The Wild Trees addresses the diversity of scientific research in the context of the story of how researchers learned about the giant redwoods in Northwestern California.
Although these lessons use the whole book, they include resources you could use for smaller sections or individual chapters. They may also help with ideas on how to incorporate other books into your lessons.
Thanks, I will look at these resources!
Here is the link to the Darwin video from PBS
Hi Emily,
I'd like to add on to what Sarah wrote. Science NetLinks also has a lesson that makes use of a couple of books by a sci-fi writer names Douglas Richards. The lesson is: The Prometheus Project: The Science Behind Science Fiction. This lesson is at the 6-8 grade level and helps students critically identify and probe scientific ideas embodied in science fiction literature.
Heym can you suggest some very good elementary resources on these topics, perhaps short videos? We are a math science and technology magnet school.
I find myself using Netflix to stream the Hawking video Into the Universe. Fourth and fifth graders love it. Big questions..
Have you seen the Royal Institution of Great Britain's Christmas lecture series? They are available on their website http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayEvent&id=548 but you have to register to view them. Also, some of them are on Youtube, Here is one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXt2-xi2yLc&feature=related
I believe that Yale University and Rutgers also do something similar but I can't find the videos on the web. Maybe they are somewhere.
Watched a video by Tim Ferris yesterday, thanks to Netflix streaming. Well done. I did check out the Christmas lecture page you sent me. What a great idea, Christmas lectures on science. I also watched the Nova presentation on What Darwin did not know (or close to that). I want to watch it again!


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Escorted to the altar by her father and given in marriage by her parents, George and Kyle Herron of Madison, formerly of Steubenville, the bride chose a chiffon jeweled halter gown and a fingertip veil adorned with crystals and pearls. She carried a bouquet of eggplant calla lilies.
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I like that word "imagineer," but I cannot take credit for its origin. Tech & Learning posted a blog titled, "REinvent," that features Northfield Community School (NCS) in New Jersey and their efforts to "imagineer" their K-4 Computer Lab into a STEM experience. The idea originated with a parent who thought students would master core subjects better if the computer lab work focused on a hands-on STEM curriculum.
According to a teacher at the school, "The K4STEMLAB vision is to combine the best of what we now know as 'Computer Lab' and hands-on, inquiry-driven 'STEM' (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) projects in a brand-new, as-yet-undesigned mobile learning classroom space."
The blog includes pictures of the computer lab as it looked 9 years ago versus how it looks today. Also there are several videos that further explain this vision. One of these videos appears below:
Anyone who wants to follow the adventure for these students is welcome to read the school's blog posts at http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/k4stemlab/.
What do you think of this concept to incorporate STEM into K-4 learning?
Can you envision other ways to adapt a course curriculum to integrate all of the STEM subjects at any grade level?
Lynne, thanks so much for posting about my project! School's not even over yet and we're feverishly getting ready for September. There's so much to do!
I personally feel this model - with a STEM experience as a "Special" - has terrific potential for districts that want to get started with STEM. Let's be clear: the essence of STEM is already part of many every elementary classroom experiences (from what I've seen, it already is, it's called "Science"). What we are trying to do is supplement those wonderful experiences by turning my "Computer Lab" special into a course with a STEM focus.
We are presently looking at the Museum of Science's Engineering is Elementary program as a starting point. We've heard and seen great things come out of this program and I am going to Boston for a few days in August to learn all about it (thanks to a grant from Raytheon).
I am very interested however in any and every "STEM" or "engineering" related lesson that "fits" into a "rotation" model. I'll be honest, I'd love to have a classroom of the same kids for 180 days to dive into this, but that's not my mission. I've got to make this experience memorable and valuable for all 525 kids in our elementary school, in 42-minute, once-a-week increments. Discussions here should help a lot.
I can't wait to get started! Thanks again!
p.s. any one interested can follow our project on the Tech & Learning Blog and here on our own blog: http://blogs.ncs-nj.org/k4stemlab/. I will be cross-posting!
p.p.s. Disney coined the term 'imagineering' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Imagineer
Hi Kevin,
I was so pleased to read your post and learn that you are the teacher in the 4KSTEMLAB. I am so impressed with your project and will follow it with great interest. I wrote and taught courses for an Advanced Communications and Networking program in a high school computer lab. I was always amazed at the knowledge of my students. As digital natives, they probably taught me as much as I taught them. It was a wonderful experience collaborating our efforts, and the students were eager to learn since the skills were relevant to the real world of technology careers.
I hope others will join in this discussion and share some ideas for your new curriculum. I'm sure it will be a busy summer preparing for the September launch of this new endeavor. Keep us posted, and I appreciate the additional blog link.
Thanks again for sharing your enthusiasm.
I am very excited to learn about someone else transforming their traditional "computer lab" into a STEM lab. This thought occurred to me while at the NSTA STEM conference in May and I'm moving forward with the same idea at my school next year. The idea of integrating a more hands-on, inquiry based learning environment seems so logical in this day and age. Kevin, our structure is very similar to yours where students attend computer lab once a week for 45 minute blocks of time. I would love to share thoughts and ideas as you move forward. I look to referencing your blog and following your progress.
Hello Michelle! Thanks for replying! This is great! There must be others who have done this before we can learn from. Let's stay in touch! Are you on Twitter? I'm @kjarrett there. You should also comment on some of my blog posts, you can follow along that way. Or, follow the whole blog via RSS. Where are you located? Are you on Google Plus? We could do a "hangout" sometime perhaps!
Amazing!! I am totally in awe of teachers that integrate STEM skills/knowledge into learning across the curriculum. It certainly doesn't have to be a science class or a computer lab for the STEM skills to be applied and learning integrated and enriched.
In working with the Wonderopolis team, I was terribly impressed by the creative use of daily Wonders--doing so across the curriculum AND across student learning levels. One high school teacher of Sports and Entertainment Marketing (and I didn't even know that was offered at the high school level!) used Wonder 126: What's So Super About Super Bowl Sunday? as a springboard for his students to create computer generated Super Bowl tickets, and then used an online tool to vote for their favorites as well. Even the losing designs were phenomenal, showing amazing technological proficiency. I expect students and teachers who use the online Wonderopolis resource to have a basic level of technological skills, but this was a great example of applied and scaffolded skills with meaningful learning around something of interest to students.
I was so impressed to read about a new interactive children's exhibit at our Danville (VA) Science Center that is an imagination playground--enormous lightweight blocks in a variety of shapes. The playground can be set up indoors or outdoors as weather permits. How cool is that?
The imagination playground promotes play to reinforce principles of STEM by allowing children of multiple ages to have access to productive and collaborative play while experimenting and implementing concepts of physics, math, and engineering.
At the Imagination Playground website, Matt Goldman, Co-Founder of the Blue School, says, "Imagination Playground blocks are an incredible play system for unlocking children's creative spirit."
What do you think of this innovative playground equipment for teaching STEM concepts?


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YASTREB SPACE SUITDESIGNED FOR EVA. "Yastreb" ("Hawk" in Russian) pressure suit with vacuum shield / thermal protection oversuit and portable life support system,
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"Yastreb" ("Hawk" in Russian) pressure suit with vacuum shield / thermal protection oversuit and portable life support system, manufactured by Zvezda. The suit approximately 65 inches tall. Comprising (1) detachable white enamel-coated aluminum alloy helmet, with hinged reflective gold-film coated sun visor and double-layered transparent visor below, finger-lift flanges at sides and clavicle bar lock,
painted by hand in red on forehead, securing with bolts and ring locks to rigid metal collar on suit, together with cotton 'hairnet' and leather communications headset; (2) soft lace-up pressurized undersuit of green nylon, trussed sleeves with white enamel-coated metal annular upper arm restraints connected to articulating cables and pulleys extending through the arms to the sternum, pressure gauge on right fore-arm, 2 umbilical connectors and 2 pressure regulating valves on torso, trussed legs, integral white nylon boots with Velcro-covered rubber soles, 2 inner rubberized cloth ventilating bladders; (3) white lightweight knitted nylon vacuum shield / thermal protection oversuit, 2 layers sandwiching thermal protective foil between, secured to the pressurized undersuit by laces at various points, sleeves, torso and legs with bright orange-red applied stripe, arrowhead-shaped "CCCP" emblem on left sleeve with Soyuz-like rocket, Velcro-secured flaps covering umbilical connectors, valves and pressure gauge; (4) lightweight nylon gloves with thermal protection foil layers, rigid metal cuffs, palms covered with heavily textured rubber surface; (5) rectangular white enamel-coated pressurized life support backpack with connecting hoses and harness, enclosing the oxygen supply and gas ventilation / regeneration subsystems. A few minor visor scratches, the oversuit a little 'bobbled' in patches, backpack with a few dents and chips to paint.
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designed for the Soyuz program. The Yastreb suit was used for the first Soviet manned docking.
"The successful space walk by A.A. Leonov on 18 March 1965 was followed by a new mission objective for the Soyuz vehicles: facilitating the transfer of crew members from one vehicle to another through free space. Such an operation was required for one of the circumlunar flight plans (L1) when crew members were to move from the Soyuz-type transportation system in near-Earth orbit to the lunar vehicle" (Abramov and Skoog,
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, 2003, p 82). Leonov's suit had been a "Berkut"; with its limited oxygen supply, it was useful only for short EVAsLeonov's ground-breaking spacewalk was a mere twelve minutes long. More complicated missions would require longer spacewalks, allowing cosmonauts to make repairs, assemble the planned space stations, and ultimately walk on the moon. Berkut was therefore developed over the course of 1965-1967 into Yastreb.
Like Berkut, Yastreb had a life support system, but the new backpack was self-contained and regenerative. As a result, it could sustain life for two and a half hours in the vacuum of space. The new suit was eventually used during the momentous docking of Soyuz 4 and 5 on January 16, 1969. The aim of the mission was to dock the two spacecraft, transfer two crew members from Soyuz 5 to 4, and return them to Earth on Soyuz 4. Cosmonauts Khrunov and Yeliseyev donned their Yastrebs, then performed a 37-minute spacewalk, holding onto handrails and crossing over to the hatch of the Soyuz 4 spacecraft. The spacewalkers took with them from Soyuz 5 newspapers, letters, and telegrams printed after the launch of Soyuz 4, to prove that the transfer had really taken place and was not manufactured propaganda.
The historic mission of Soyuz 4/5 was the only occasion where the Yastreb EVA suit was used. It led the way to the next iteration of Soviet space suits, "Orlan," a semi-rigid suit designed for the demanding requirements of lunar walks. The present Yastreb differs very slightly from the model used during Soyuz 4/5, which had a mirror sewn into the left sleeve of the oversuit. This is likely, therefore, to be a developmental prototype.
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By Kristine McKenzie
While many people who visit Las Vegas already know how to play the table games, there are the occasional visitors who have never set foot near a roulette wheel and have no idea what a stickman's job is.
The more people who know how to gamble, the happier Vegas casinos are, so many of them offer free gaming lessons to the public.
During a gaming lesson, the instructor will teach you the basic rules and the object of the game and then will usually deal out some example hands, showing you the different scenarios that can happen with each. Then, you usually get to "play" a few hands on your own, using practice chips (they don't let you play with the real thing) to see how you do and whether you're playing properly. The instructor also will explain the different odds and show you how you would be paid on each hand.
One word of advice -- these lessons can be fairly popular. Get there early if you want a seat at the table for hands-on practice. If you're late, you'll probably have to stand behind the table and just observe.
The gaming teachers are very friendly and are happy to answer any questions you might have, so don't be embarrassed about your lack of knowledge. Remember -- they want you to be able to go out and play these games after the class.
The lessons aren't strictly for newcomers. Even if you're a veteran gambler, you might want to learn a game you've never tried before, such as Let It Ride or Pai Gow poker. Or you might just pick up some helpful hints that will enhance your existing gaming skills.
Besides teaching the basic rules and strategy of each game, the lessons are a great way to learn the proper jargon and etiquette associated with each game. Believe it or not, there are a lot of little things you need to know that could save you from potentially embarrassing situations later. For example, if the dice fall off the table in craps, it's considered a cardinal sin by serious gamblers to set them back on the table. They must be handed directly to the dealer, who will inspect them for any signs of tampering before play resumes.
There also are things you should know so you don't anger the more seasoned players at your table. In craps, you should always try to roll the dice so they hit the end of the table -- the dice supposedly get a better bounce that way. If you don't, you risk annoying some of the other players.
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Circus Circus: Mon.-Fri.; blackjack: 10:30 a.m.; roulette: 11 a.m.; craps: 11:30 a.m.
Excalibur: Mon.-Fri.; roulette: 11 a.m.; blackjack: 11:30 a.m.; craps: noon.
Flamingo: Mon.-Fri.; craps. Call (702) 733-3111 for schedule.
Golden Nugget: Tues. and Thurs., blackjack: 10:15 a.m.; Wed. and Fri., craps: 11:15 a.m.; Mon., roulette: 11:15 a.m.
Imperial Palace: Craps: 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Mon.-Thurs., 11 a.m. Fri.; blackjack: Mon.-Fri. at 9 a.m.; roulette: Mon.-Fri. at 10 a.m.; poker: daily, 11 a.m.
Monte Carlo: Mon.-Fri.; poker, 9 a.m. & 2 p.m.; craps: Mon., Tues., & Fri., 11 a.m.
Palace Station: Mon.-Fri.; craps: noon; blackjack: 11 a.m.
Sunset Station: Mon.-Fri.; craps: 3:30 p.m.; poker: Sun., 2 p.m. and Mon. 11 a.m.
Texas Station: Fri.-Sat.; craps: 6:30 p.m.
Tropicana: Wed.-Sat.; craps: 10 a.m.: blackjack: 11:15 a.m.; roulette: noon.