The Tell-Tale Heart - ACTIVITY PAIR PACK - PowerPoint Practice & Class Debate

This is a pair-pack of our two popular activities for studying Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. One activity is a 40 slide PowerPoint for students to practice identifying mood and tone in the text. The other activity is a fun two-day crime scene debate. There are full descriptions of each below.

1. The Mood & Tone PowerPoint activity has slides that prompt students to analyze various passages in the story and handouts for them to use in collaboration with peers as they follow along the presentation. There is a lesson plan to guide you through facilitating the activity over the course of two days, including warm-ups and exit tickets.

This product includes:

• Overview
• Lesson Plans for two days
• PowerPoint Presentation: Identifying Mood & Tone -40 slides
• PowerPoint Graphic Organizers
• Mood/Tone Cheat Sheets
• Warm Ups and Exit Tickets

2. The crime scene debate activity makes a great culminating activity for a class that is analyzing Poe's short story. Students take sides to participate in a class debate about whether the narrator in the story should be charged guilty of premeditated murder or qualify for the insanity plea in a court room. On the first day, students prepare their arguments by gathering evidence from the text to defend their position. On the second day, both sides engage in a "courtroom" style debate with the teacher using moderator questions to facilitate like a judge. Students get into it!

This product includes:

• Overview
• Lesson Plans for 2 days
• Warm-up/ Exit ticket
• The text itself, numbered by paragraph
• Crime Scene Debate Activity Criteria Sheet
• Crime Scene Debate Activity Handouts
• Debate Moderator Questions (for teacher to facilitate)

NOTE: Both of these resources are included in our 2 Week Tell-Tale Heart Unit, which we recommend to you for much greater richness and depth in your classroom study.

These activities are also included in our larger Edgar Allan Poe Bundle that contains other units by the author. If you would like them all, please buy the bundle instead.


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