The Tell-Tale Heart

7th Grade Language Arts

Objectives
I can analyze The Tell-Tale Heart by
evaluating the characters state of
mind or by evaluating the role of the
characters senses in the story.

Crazy?

Essay 1
Describe the narrators state of mind,
including at least three pieces of
evidence from the story.

Prewriting
In The Tell-Tale Heart, how would
you characterize the narrators state
of mind?
What does the narrator say about his
own state of mind?
Is he believable? Why or why not?
Use Mindmup to organize your essay
around the answers to these
questions.

Extra-ordinary Senses?

Essay 2
Choose two senses and describe the
role they play in developing the story.
List as many examples of each
sense that you can, and explain how
each sense contributed to the story
as a whole.
For your pre-writing, create a chart
like the one on the next slide. Fill
each column in with textual evidence
cited with page numbers.

Prewriting
See

Hear

Touch

Smell

Taste