Essential question
1 This story is about the life of Allan Poe
2 Yes because his wife died when he was 27 years old
EQ: They forced him to marry someone older than him, when he was only 13 years old
Gothic literature
1 It was in a spooky castle it was always dark and it was very creepy
2 It is mysterious because the lord does not know anything about what the narrator wants to do to him
4 he imagined ghost voices in his head
3 It is mysterious because the lord does not know anything about what the narrator wants to do to him
5 He was imagining noises in his head , his heart was beating fast and he thought he was going crazy
6 there is not a woman
7 He feels that he does not fit into society because he had eye of a vulture and he believes that if someone sees
him with that eye he will be scared and will want to kill him
8 yes because he heard voices that did not exist
9 yes, that he envied his eye
10 the narrator is mentally ill because he wanted to gouge out the man's eye and after I did he imagined voices
and things in his head
11 he narrator was excited because he was finally able to get rid of the old man's eye
12 no
13 cloudy , dark , nothing was heard , everything was calm
Tell tale heart questions
1 Edgar Allan poe
The narrator and the old man
2 narrator want to kill the old man , because he is bothered by his eye
3 the narrator was very kind to the old man
The narrator is bothered by the old man’s eye
Because he hates it and because it bothers him
4 he spied on the old man for an hour every night
To finally peek his head into the door of the old man room
5 he feels excited
He going crazy
6 the narrator gone crazy and cracked and hearts noises
Having killed the old man
1. Identify the exposition (beginning), the climax (turning point), and the resolution (ending) of the story.
At first he treated him well so that he did not suspect anything and in the end the narrator was arrested
2. In the chart below, provide an example of how the narrator describes the eye. Then describe how the example has helped to intensify the story. Use details from the
article to support your answer.
How does the narrator describe the eye?
A pale blue eye, with a film over it
How does the description intensify the story?
When the narrator begins to imagine things
3 Explain why the narrator panics when the police show up at his door. Use details from the text to support your answer. Don’t forget to steal and spit!
Because he knew that he killed the old man
4. Often when you’ve done something wrong, it’s agony to wonder if you’ll be caught. Do youthinkthat Poe felt this way? Explain your answer. Use details from the text to
support your answer. Don’t forget to steal and spit!
Yes because he did something wrong
5. Are you surprised that Poe felt the way he did? Were your initial predictions correct? Justify your answer!
Yes because he knew he was going to be arrested for what he did
Tall tale heart
Directions: Complete the following questions. Be sure to write in complete sentences and remember to steal and spit! This will be graded!
1. In your own words, explain what happens in the story
The narrator hated the old man's eye and so that the lord did not suspect that he wanted to kill him to remove his eye, the narrator began to treat
him for good so that he did not suspect anything, and after the narrator, killing the old man began to go crazy and the neighbor heard a noise and
the police came, and the narrator was hearing such strange things that he knew he was going crazy so he informed the officers about what he did
2. In 3-5 sentences, describe the character telling the story.
He is bad , envious , and have mental problem…
3. Reread the story and underline all the words that suggest fear and horror. Copy the words that you have underlined here Allan Poe uses language and literary
devices to make the reader feel tense during the story.
When his heart was beating too fast
