Paired Texts Edgar Allan Poe — The Tell-Tale Heart & The Black Cat TDA Essay

Reading Paired Texts: Text-Dependent Analysis and Response To Literature Essay for The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe.

If you are looking for a pair of awesome texts with similar themes, topics, and literary elements, this product features a compare and contrast chart for the two gothic tales by Edgar Allan Poe "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat."

Both feature unreliable narrators who commit heinous crimes. Both narrators claim not to be mad, but are they telling the truth? Both stories are also filled with horror, suspense, and evil. Comparing these two stories is great practice for writing a TDA.

Included in this purchase is:

• a graphic organizer that outlines how students will compare multiple literary elements of the two short stories.
• the response to literature (RTL) essay or text-dependent analysis (TDA) prompt for students and a rubric with point values based on Common Core Standards.
• an answer guide to the literary analyses of both texts.

The rubric is included as both PDF (ready to print) and Word document (editable).

Student Objectives:

• Analyze how two texts from the same author treat similar themes or topics.
• Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
• Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences and conclusions based on and related to an author’s implicit and explicit assumptions and beliefs.
• Draw evidence from literary texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
• Students will analyze important literary devices including: plot, conflicts, themes, characters, point of view, text structure, mood, tone, and symbolism.

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