The Tell-Tale Heart Escape Room Activity - Breakout Game for Edgar Allan Poe Short Story

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The Tell-Tale Heart Escape Room Activity - Breakout Game for Edgar Allan Poe Short Story is an exciting and interactive way to help your students review key elements of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story. As they work through a series of puzzles and challenges, students will explore the plot structure, characterization, literary devices, and vocabulary found in the text to piece together the narrator’s unraveling mind. This highly engaging, hands-on breakout activity is a perfect final task for the story and an effective way to check your students’ understanding of Poe’s suspenseful tale.

How The Tell-Tale Heart Escape Room Activity Works:

Students work in small groups and move about the classroom to five different stations to complete puzzles and activities related to the story:

The Plot Diagram Station: Students will order plot cards according to the plot diagram to determine a numeric code.
The Figurative Language Station: Students will match up quotes from The Tell-Tale Heart to the type of figurative language used to reveal a secret code word.
The Analysis Station: Students will complete a multiple-choice analysis assignment about story elements to reveal a mystery word.
The Vocabulary Station: Students work together to match up new vocabulary words from examples in The Tell-Tale Heart to their proper definitions (using context clues). Once they have matched them up correctly, it will reveal a mystery word.
The Encryption Station: Students decode an encrypted message based on hidden symbols they have to find throughout The Tell-Tale Heart escape room to reveal a quote from the story.

Please note that students must have finished reading the short story before attempting the escape room. They will also have to have an understanding of the following: simile, protagonist vs. antagonist, foreshadowing, setting, irony, symbolism, and theme.

Included in The Tell-Tale Heart Escape Room Activity:

➡️ Teacher Instructions: These detailed teacher instructions will help you facilitate The Tell-Tale Heart escape room in your classroom. With step-by-step instructions, you’ll feel totally confident implementing this breakout.

➡️ Classroom Poster: Welcome students and build anticipation by putting this poster on your classroom door as they enter. The poster reads The Tell-Tale Heart Escape Room.

➡️ Station Signs: Use these signs at each of the five stations to help students easily keep track of which ones they have completed.

➡️ Station Story and Instruction Cards: Each of the five tasks comes with a story card with quotes from the story to share their goal for that station. These include Meet the Narrator, Stalk the Victim, Commit the Crime, Talk to the Police, and Confess to the Crime. Instruction cards are also included so that students know what to do to solve each task related to the story.

➡️ Escape Room Station Materials: Included are all the materials you need to set up each station, including envelope templates, plot cards, figurative language cards, an analysis multiple-choice assignment, a vocabulary puzzle, and an encryption assignment.

➡️ The Tell-Tale Heart Escape Room Answer Booklet: Students will use this booklet to record each of the codes and keys they find at each station. An answer key is provided.

➡️ Reflection and Response Assignments: Included are two reflection assignments that students can complete after the breakout. One is a reflection on the quote revealed in the final puzzle, and the other is a reflection on the escape room activity.

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Created using the Escape Room Template Kit by Nouvelle ELA