“The Tell-Tale Heart” Rewrite Effectively use narrative techniques to rewrite “The Tell-Tale Heart” from a new perspective, incorporating relevant details and dialogue from the original text. Action Steps • Select a new narrator: __________________________ (e.g., one of the police officers, one of the old man’s relatives, the neighbor…) • Establish a different point of view (1 st , 3 rd …) and purpose in telling the story. How does the character (your narrator) feel about situation? _____________________________________ (What’s your narrator’s “truth”? “reality”?) Why does your narrator feel this way? ____________________________________________ • Determine a new tone and vary the word choice to reflect the narrator’s “real” motives and personality. What will your character focus on in telling his or her version of the story? __________________________ Why? ______________________________________________________________________ • Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue (but don’t simply record a conversation!), pacing, and description, including sensory language, to develop events and characters according to the changed point of view and purpose. What might your character say or think? ______________________________________________________ Why would your character say/think that? ___________________________________________________ *Short sentences, alliteration, and repetition speed up the reading pace; longer, more complex sentences slow down the pace and make the reader think more carefully about what is being said What does your character see? __________________________________________________________