This resource focuses on the analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." It provides learning objectives aimed at helping students synthesize their understanding of the story's themes, particularly guilt, obsession, and sanity. The activities encourage peer discussion to share insights from their readings, utilize symbols like the 'Vulture Eye' and the 'beating heart' to understand the narrator's psychological state, and reflect on the AVID annotation process used to examine the narrator's reliability. Additionally, a challenge task prompts students to articulate the connection between symbolism and theme through textual evidence.