The Tell-Tale Heart Story: Reading Together.

We are reading the short story The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a gothic story about madness, obsession and compulsion, murder and irritation - it is a medium to hard read with some complex vocabulary and may take more than one read to understand and appreciate.

Check out Word Discovery for this story: here.

The video has captions so you can follow along on the screen, but I encourage you to print the below pdf of the story so you can read it a second time (and maybe even a third!) time on paper. When reading on paper, you can highlight or underline interesting words and write your reactions in the margins! That's top-tier engaging with a text!

Engage further with this story! 

Now that you have read the Tell-Tale Heart take your learning further by participating in the chat below.
What is your personal reaction to this story? 
Did you enjoy it, why or why not?
Did you like the language the author uses?
Did you feel the tension building throughout the story? What specific words did the author use to make you feel on edge?
What was your reaction to the narrator? Have you ever found yourself driven mad by the smallest thing?

Investigating Language
Choose another one or two words in the story and try to learn more about them. 
Look up the word in a dictionary, online or paper, and see if the word has any other meanings. 
If a word has an unusual spelling, search etymology of the word and find out where it comes from. 
Does the word have prefixes or suffixes? Can you use morphology to find out what it means and connect it to other words that share a morpheme? 
Search up synonyms or antonyms to the word.