Guilty or not guilty?

After reading Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell Tale Heart, Pershing Middle School’s 8th-grade ELA students were charged with deciding whether the narrator was guilty of murder. The students researched laws on mental illness and premeditation, established evidence to support their position, and prepared opening and closing statements and questions for Mr. Poe. A jury of faculty members and other students listened to both sides, deliberated on the fate of the famous narrator, and delivered a verdict: guilty. Pictured are 8th-grade ELA teacher Emily Trinkle (as Edgar Allen Poe) and school librarian Jennifer DeMoss (as the presiding judge). 

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