This resource focuses on analyzing Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' through various AVID 'Marking the Text' strategies. The learning objective is for students to build foundational comprehension by identifying key themes such as obsession, guilt, and sanity, as well as the narrator's point of view. It provides structured activities like numbering paragraphs, circling unknown vocabulary, underlining main claims, and marking symbols to help students engage with the text. The material also includes a deep dive into the reliability of the narrator and prompts reflective thinking through the 'See-Think-Wonder' method. Additionally, students are encouraged to summarize the narrator's motivations and evaluate how the obsession enhances suspense, thus fostering a deeper understanding of literary analysis.