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"The Tell-Tale Heart"- It's a Matter of Point of View Lesson Plan"The Tell-Tale Heart"- It's a Matter of Point of View Lesson Plan
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"The Tell-Tale Heart"- It's a Matter of Point of View

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How does the point of view of Poe's protagonist in "The Tell-Tale Heart" contribute to the suspenseful tone? Help your middle schoolers identify the point of view in a literary work with this lesson, which goes on to discuss the limitations of first-person point of view. Consider adding this lesson to your unit on point of view, or around Halloween to give your readers a chill!

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8th
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English Language Arts
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