The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

TEST IN TESTWEEK

Short story reader.  90 minute test.  Open questions and Multiple choice.  Stories to know:

1. Mr Know-all: done in class last week

2. Open Window: LessonUp lesson given as homework for today

3. Today: Tell-Tale Heart

4. Wednesday: Genesis and Catastrophe

5. Next Friday: When They Learned to Yelp

Formal Letter

March 9th On Computer in room 3_10

90 minutes

Tell-Tale Heart 

Edgar Allan Poe

The Horror Story

The horror story ("griezelverhaal") originated around 1800.  Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), together with Mary Shelley (1797-1851), the author of Frankenstein and Bram Stoker (1847-1912), the author of Dracula, were among the popular authors of this genre of fiction and helped it achieve the popularity it still has today.

Assignment

With the use of the next slides we will be analysing Tell-Tale Heart.

First you will read and hear the story.  Then you will hear a teacher explain it.

Then there will be some questions.  So take notes.

What do you think the narrator hears? Is it the heart of the old man?

In your own words, what are the two main messages of this story?

01:24

Why is it ironic? Are there more examples of irony in the story?

02:58

The teacher first says the eye may be a symbol of authority, later she says a symbol of evil. Knowing how the story ends, what do you think and why?

06:21

Why does Poe want us to think about Lady MacBeth? What is the similarity?

08:46

Do you want to change or add anything to your list of examples of irony?