We've watched in class the scary film "The Tell Tale Heart" adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title.
This is the video and, also, some of the activities we have done.
You can also find here other other animated adaptations of it and a link
to the whole text, just in case you would like to read it. Give it a
try! It's not long and very scary....
Activities -->
What
do you expect to find in a horror story?
Watch
the adaptation from Poe's tale and order the sentences as they appear
in the film.
_____
True, I'm nervous , very very dreadfully nervous, but why would you
say that I am mad?
_____
Yes, yes, I did it.
_____
He had never harmed me.
_____
A scream, my own gentlemen, a childish dream. But, come in, please.
_____
I think, I think it was his eye.
_____
Nothing out of place here.
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For an hour I didn't move a muscle.
_____
Of course I had to get rid of the eye.
_____
But there were still work to be done.
_____
Still I waited while time slowed, stopped, end out.
Write
a sentence with each word relating it to the story.
Example:
old man The narrator lived with an old man.
gold eye seven
days
the
beating of the heart. a
scream the
police
floor jail mad
Poe
was a symbolist writer. What do you think the beating of the heart
stands for?
Voluntary
work: Write
a short horror story (about 100 -150 lines)
Write
a summary of “The Tell Tale Heart” (about 100 -150 lines)
Other adaptations of "The Tell Tale Heart"
And now you can have FUN watching poor Edgar Allan Poe's auditions for his own TV show. Humiliating!
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