THE COURT CASE

“First of all I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs. I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber, and deposited all between the scantlings. I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye --not even his --could have detected any thing wrong.” - Edgar Allan Poe

Introduction

On the basis of the events in Edgar Allan Poe 's The Tell Tale Heart this class activity is to perform a subsequent court case. The unnamed narrator, for practical reasons named Ed in this court, is tried for the murder of the unnamed old man, in this case called David. You are each to participate in the trial as either the judge, prosecutors, defense attorneys, defendant, witnesses, medical examiners or members of the jury. Click below to find out what is to be expected from your character.