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The Tell Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe. 7-1 Week of Oct. 20, 2014. Homework –. Essay Prep Poe Short Story – read Passage Vocabulary Example Study Vocabulary from “The Tell Tale Heart.” Test-Tuesday, October 21 st.

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The Tell Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe

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  1. The Tell Tale HeartEdgar Allan Poe • 7-1 Week of Oct. 20, 2014

  2. Homework – • Essay Prep • Poe Short Story – read • Passage • Vocabulary • Example • Study Vocabulary from “The Tell Tale Heart.” • Test-Tuesday, October 21st.

  3. The narrator claims he'll prove he's not "mad." What makes you think the narrator is sane or insane, at the end of the story? Give evidence from the story to support your answer. • “The disease had sharpened my senses-not dulled them.” The Narrator knows what he is doing. The narrator believes that his abilities have become stronger.

  4. Example: The narrator claims he'll prove he's not "mad." What makes you think the narrator is sane or insane, at the end of the story? Give evidence from the story to support your answer. • The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” claims that he is not mad. However, he does show signs of insanity.

  5. Example Introductory & Concluding Sentence: • The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” claims that he is not mad. However, he does show signs of insanity. • Although the narrator claims that he is sane, these facts from the story tell us that he is indeed deranged.

  6. Reading Check • What is the narrator’s sharpest sense? • What is it about the old man that disturbs the narrator? • How does the narrator treat the old man during the week before he kills him? • After he decides to kill the old man, why doesn’t the narrator just slip in and stab him in his sleep? • How does the narrator kill the old man? • How does the narrator try to hide his crime? • What causes the narrator to admit his crime?

  7. The Tell-Tale Heart • Part I • Part II • The Tell-Tale Heart Animation 7:47 • The Tell-Tale Heart short film (10:10) • Poe Interactive (for Smart Board) • The Tell Tale Heart - The Alan Parsons Project (modern adaptation) • The Tell Tale Heart- Music only Video • The Tell-Tale Heart – United Streaming (6:54)

  8. Theme - Time • References to time and clocks • Some questions of time in the story are never answered

  9. Why did it take eight days for the narrator to kill the old man? • The events in the narrator's story occur over eight days. Is this significant? If so, why? Why would the narrator give us this detail, but not the month, or the year? • How might the narrator have spent those first seven days? Do you think he sleeps? Why or why not? • Shmoop video

  10. Time Quotes “It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he lay upon his bed.” (3) • suggests extreme loneliness • Narrator has trouble sleeping  This moment is when we first begin to notice there's something funny going on with time.

  11. “And this I did for seven long nights – every night just at midnight.” (3) All bad things happen after midnight!

  12. “A watch's minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. “(4) The narrator sees himself as a kind of clock, counting down to the old man's death.

  13. Vocabulary

  14. Conceived • V. To think of

  15. Cunningly • Clever in a tricky way

  16. Deputed • To assign

  17. Dismembered • To cut the arms and legs off

  18. Enveloped • To cover completely

  19. Grated • To rub something noisily against another object • Washboard Music

  20. Hypocrite • One who pretends to have qualities he or she does not have

  21. Profound • Deep; wise

  22. Raved • To talk like an insane person • talk wildly or incoherently, as if one were delirious or insane

  23. Vocabulary • Acute • Dissimulation • Profound • Sagacity • Crevice • Suavity • Gesticulations • Derision

  24. Acute • Bloodhounds have an acute sense of smell.

  25. dissimulation • When Bruce Wayne donned his Batman costume his dissimulation was complete for no one would recognize him.

  26. sagacity • Even though he had never played chess before, his sagacity made him a skillful opponent. • Pronunciation

  27. crevice • As a result of the earthquake, a long crevice appeared in the road.

  28. crevasse • a deep crevice or fissure (as in a glacier or the earth)

  29. suavity • N. • Graceful politeness

  30. acute • Adj. • sensitive

  31. dissimulation • N. • The hiding of one’s feelings or purposes

  32. sagacity • N. • High intelligence and sound judgment • Ability to make wise decisions.

  33. crevice N. A narrow opening

  34. suavity • Pronunciation • Many advertisers use suavity as a means to sell a product.

  35. gesticulations • Noun • A deliberate, vigorous motion or gesture

  36. derision Derision in school can hurt.

  37. derision • N. • Contempt; ridicule

  38. gesticulations • Pronunciation • Gesticulations are an important component of sign language for the deaf.

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