Rid yourself of unsupported analytic writing forever with a mid-unit assessment focused on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." As ninth graders formulate an essay based on evidence from the first seven lessons in the unit, they choose a central idea from the text and provide support for its development using examples of the text structure.

Concepts

edgar allan poe, the tell-tale heart, literary analysis, literary elements, literary themes, textual analysis, textual evidence, central ideas, annotation

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Allow struggling readers or younger classes to write a draft of the essay before a timed in-class writing assignment
• For self-assessment, send home the rubric and checklist before learners write the in-class essay

Classroom Considerations

• Designed as a writing assessment for a 13-part unit, but helpful for any Poe unit

Pros

• Provides a specific mid-unit evidence collection worksheet to help learners prepare for the writing prompt
• Comes with assessment tools, including a text analysis checklist and writing rubric

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.2 RL.9-10.5 W.9-10.2.b W.9-10.2.d W.9-10.9.a SL.9-10.1.a L.9-10.1.a