1. AGENDA Put your name on the paper you took (Mind Mirror) NO WARM UP
“The Monkey’s Paw” Video (10 minutes)
The Mind Mirror Explanation and Directions
Literary Devices: irony, symbolism
Edgar Allan Poe Video (4 minutes)
In your notebook:“The Tell-Tale Heart”

2. Mind Mirror
A.K.A. Mind Map

3. What is it?
The mind mirror activity asks students to synthesize and be creative with their understanding of a given character (Common Core Standard: Analyze Characterization)
In an outline of the character’s head, students express how the character was feeling and thinking at a specific time and comment on what the character was considering.

4. To illustrate symbolism will use:
What do I do?
To illustrate symbolism will use:
Two relevant quotes (CDs) from the text.
Create two comments (CMs) that summarize the important aspects of the symbolism.
Two depictions (drawing and/or symbol) that connect to Poe’s use of symbolism.
Next to the depiction, explain with a caption

5. Main character = Narrator
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
Written by Edgar Allan Poe
Genre = Horror
Main character = Narrator

6. Watch the short video about Poe (3:49) not the 40 minute video!
use a computer
Online research: Edgar Allan Poe
Go to google and/or find
Watch the short video about Poe (3:49) not the 40 minute video!

8. Edgar Allan Poe Father abandons him Mother dies
Taken in by the Allan family
A lot of debt/gambling
Wife died
Probably had various addictions
Struggled as a writer; was a critic
Mysterious death

9. QUOTES/CDs “One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture…”
“Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold…”
“…I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.”
“…but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work…”
“…it was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye.”
“It was open - wide, wide open – and I grew furious as I gazed upon it.”
“At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I…examined the corpse.”
“I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings.”
“There was nothing to wash out – no stain of any kind – no blood-spot whatever.”
“I admit the deed! – tear up the planks! – here, here! – it is the beating of his hideous heart!”

10. STAY IN PRESENT TENSE (IS not WAS, ARE not WERE)
TS In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” the author conveys
…to symbolize…____________________________________
CD To begin with, this is seen…(SET UP =who what where info.)_
CM *This shows that…because…___________________________
CM **This is important since…____________________________
CD Next, symbolism is reflected…(ADD A SET UP)____________
CM *This displays…______________________________________
CM **This is significant because…_________________________
CS (I have learned or restate TS) _________________________
*THIS PROVES… **THIS IS REVEALING BECAUSE…
*THIS INDICATES… **IN OTHER WORDS…
STAY IN PRESENT TENSE (IS not WAS, ARE not WERE)