Michaela Owen

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Lesson Topic: Mood of The Tell-Tale Heart

Time Frame: 50 minutes

Course: Language Arts

Grade Level: Eighth

TERMINAL BEHAVIORAL OBJECTIVE

State the terminal objective (including content and behavior):
Using three examples of textual evidence, students will be able to write a paragraph that determines the mood of Edgar Allan Poes
The Tell-Tale Heart (Applying)
*students have prior knowledge of mood and textual evidence

CURRICULUM/STANDARDS
List all appropriate national, state or district curriculum or standards that align to this lesson:
Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from
the text. (8.RL.1)

HOMEWORK
If there is homework following this lesson, list it here:
No Homework

RESOURCES/MATERIALS
List all resources that you will need to teach this lesson:

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe in Literature Book

Mood PowerPoint
Note-taker on mood
Example Quotes to Model
Slates
Graphic organizer for textual evidence and final paragraph
Exit Tickets answers on student notebook paper

Task Analysis
The sub-objectives should include content and behavior. The first sub-objective should be your BW/Anticipatory Set.
The last sub-objective should match your terminal behavioral objective.

TIME

SUB-OBJECTIVE
(include Blooms level)

5
Students will be able to explain
mins mood in their own words
(Understanding).

TEACHING STRATEGY

Bellwork: What is mood? How would

you explain mood to your younger
friends or siblings?

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING/

ACTIVE STUDENT PARTICIPATION
Students Bellwork Journals and
verbal responses.
Intermittent closure: Who feels the
mood? Students write answers in
journals before discussing as a class.

10
Students will be able to identify at
mins least two story elements that
convey mood (Applying).

Think/Pair/Share: What helps convey

mood in a story or plot?

Note-taker: For Think/Pair/Share

brainstorm and PowerPoint notes on
mood examples

Mini-Lecture with PowerPoint:

Review mood and how it is
conveyed.

10
Given a quote from The Tell-Tale
mins Heart, students will be able to
identify the mood of the text
(Applying).

Model with quote from The Tell-Tale

Heart that conveys the mood.

Student Slates: Students write down

the mood conveyed in second quote.

Guided Instruction allowing students

to identify the mood conveyed in
second example quote.

Intermittent Closure: Can the text

convey more than one mood? Why or
why not?

10
Each student will be able to record
mins three examples of textual evidence
that convey the mood of The TellTale Heart (Applying).

Guided instruction allowing students Graphic Organizer: Students will

to record their own examples of
record textual evidence from The
textual evidence using the note-taker. Tell-Tale Heart

15
Using three examples from the
mins story, students will be able to
determine the mood of The TellTale Heart (Applying).

Using the graphic organizer,

students will write a short paragraph
identifying the mood.

Graphic Organizer: Students will write

a short paragraph that identifies the
mood

Chalk Talk

Chalk Talk: Students will list the mood

they identified

Exit Ticket Closure

Exit Ticket: What story element
conveyed the mood in The Tell-Tale
Heart?