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Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart" |Grades||6
– 8| |Lesson Plan Type||Standard Lesson| |Estimated Time||Five
60-minute sessions| In this lesson, students participate in a
Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA), in which they
listen to "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and answer
prediction questions at designated stopping points during the
reading. Students then discuss and write a written response to
the story at the conclusion of the lesson, in the form of either
an acrostic poem or comic strip. This les