The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Alan Poe.

Summary 

I have  always been nervous, very nervous, you think I am crazy, but my hearing was sharpened, listen to how much sanity you tell them my story  that is our narrator tell us in his first lines.

He lived with an old man as he wanted, he never had a problem with the old but apparently resented his eye similar to a vulture, his eye blue cloth covering it gradually was deciding to kill the old and get rid of your eye.

Every day midnight waiting to rear its head in the bedroom of the elder, and carried a flashlight and watched him all night until the eighth night came where the clock was faster and he entered the bedroom, the old had his piece completely dark because your blinds closed for fear of thieves. At the time he wanted to turn the flashlight on his finger slipped, the old man sat up and said, who's there? The man stood silent and stood for an hour the old man was sitting on the bed and was listening to the old man to lie on the bed, having spent time man decided to turn the flashlight but just the eye of the old man then began to rage until he decided to jump on the old man took and threw to the ground and put the mattress until it finally killed him and so there would be no short trail and decided to butcher the old man in head, legs and arms.

Man raised three tables in the room and put it in the holes and then put the boards so well that there was no difference. When I had cleaned everything, he heard someone knock on the door, were three police officers and said they were there because a neighbor heard a scream and he suspected the possibility of an attack.

He explained to the three gentlemen that was a nightmare, they searched the house and then take it to the old man's room, they talked and asked questions he started having a headache until it was more and more intense until finally confessed that he had killed the old man and that was under the table where his heart was beating.

Reading guide

Name:

Grade:

1. Before the reading activity (15 minutes)

Answer the following questions:

a) From the title of the work, what do you think of the story, what were?

b) How do you imagine the heart of the story home the telltale heart? Make a description brief (8-15 lines)

Two. After the reading activity (45 minutes)

After reading the story "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Alan Poe, performs the following activities:

a) Read the story and highlights the words you do not know

b) Find the words in a dictionary and make a vocabulary.

c) Read the text again, but now you know the meaning of words.

Answer the following questions:

a) What is the main character in the play?

b) Make a portrait of the protagonist (physical, psychological and social)

c) Describes as was the old man's room?

d) What was the murderer hated the old man?

e) What happened at the end of the story?

h) Compares this story with the news of today,  what do you think is happening in our society?

second Class

Remember the questions of the text and compare them among your companions

Meet in groups and make a summary of the story (25 minutes)

Make a small script and makes a small representation of the work (25 minutes)

Your little representation Introduce her to the course (5 minutes per group)