The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Short Story Synopsis: Professing that his disease is not madness, but nervousness and sensory acuteness, an unnamed narrator recounts what he believes to be a clever, carefully planned murder of a kind old man. His motive, he claims, is his repugnance for the old man's pale blue eye. The narrator looks in the old man's room each midnight but finds him asleep; since his eye is closed, the narrator goes no further. One night the old man awakens. The narrator sees the eye, smothers the old man, and dismembers and buries the corpse. Policemen arrive, explaining that the neighbors heard a scream. The narrator lets them search, confident that they will nothing. he invites them to sit down with him. As they talk, the narrator becomes convinced that the sound in his ears is the beating of the old man's heart. The narrator talks more loudly; the heart beats more loudly. The policemen seem to notice nothing. Unable to bear the tension, the narrator hysterically confesses to the crime.
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Goals and ObjectivesStudents will...
1. Read and comprehend the short story. 2. Learn literary terms and figurative language of symbolism, point of view, and suspense. 3. Watch the short story cartoon following the film and compare it to that of the story while identifying literary terms using a Venn Diagram. 4. Compose a written work of their own that demonstrates their understanding of point of view and characterization in connection with the craft any style of writing similar to that of Edgar Allan Poe. 5. Understand information about the author and how his personal life has impacted his writing doing background research on Edgar Allan Poe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmyFXxqLZX8
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