Hello Everyone,

Last week we closely read, listened to and watched “The Tell-Tale Heart” by the famous author Edgar Allan Poe. This week students are writing to answer the question: Is the narrator reliable or unreliable?

Students will use Claim-Evidence-Reasoning, a writing strategy used to help students make connections with a text to answer the writing prompt given.

Claim: A claim is a statement that answers the question. It will usually only be one sentence in length. Your claim should NOT start with “I believe” or “I think.”

Evidence: The evidence is the text evidence used that supports the claim. The evidence should be clear, concise, and lacking explanation (that comes later in the R section). The evidence can me taken directly from the text or paraphrased.

Reasoning: The reasoning is the explanation of “why and how” the evidence supports the claim.

Sentence starters to help write a CER are linked below:

The story is linked below:

Sincerely,

Ms. Timpf and Mrs. Schafer