Edgar Allan Poe - The Tell-Tale Heart: Analysis

90+ minutes
pack includes: Lesson plan, worksheet and short story (out of copyright)

Introduce your students to Edgar Allan Poe and his short stories with a critical reading of the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”.
Students will create their own definitions for words that are not now commonly used, read the story and analyse the themes, imagery and the effect of an unreliable narrator.

Students will end writing their own short story with an unreliable narrator - either during class or as homework.

Pack includes the lesson plan with details of the activities as well as definitions for the words the students need to create definitions for - a worksheet for the students to complete and a copy of the short story (out of copyright) for the students to annotate. There are directions for the students on how to annotate their short story.