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This is one of Poe's more accessible works. When I teach this text, I tend to play up the insanity of the narrator. It makes for a pretty good hook. This is also a good text to study when discussing the reliability of the narrator. Warning: This text contains a murder and may be unsuitable for some audiences. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 5-9.

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Teaching The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

If you are teaching “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, you may be looking for strategies and tips for analyzing this challenging plot. Not to worry as I’m sharing my best tips for helping you navigate all elements of this classic story with your students.

In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” we enter the mind of a disturbed narrator attempting to convince the reader of his sanity while telling the story of how he came to commit a murder. Poe’s story focuses on the reasons for the man’s actions, the process he takes, and the guilt and paranoia he feels.

So, where to begin when teaching this short story? Below are some tips to bring this story to life for your middle or high school students.

Build Background Knowledge

Before introducing any short story to your students, I would suggest providing any context that students may need to fully understand the background of the story. When teaching “The Tell-Tale Heart,” I like to focus on two elements of context in particular:

Introduce students to Edgar Allan Poe with a biographical overview. This background information gives students a better sense of who is telling this story: by becoming more invested in the author, your students can become more invested in their writing.

This is especially true of Edgar Allan Poe, the mystery writer who attracted a mysterious fan. I like to tell students all about The Poe Toaster, the figure dressed in all black who visited the author’s grave for 50 years in a row, leaving roses and a partially filled bottle of French cognac.

You’ll also want to provide background information on the genre of the story (gothic) and encourage students to keep an eye out for distinguishing features of this genre as they read. For example, in gothic literature, it is common for the atmosphere of the story to be one of mystery and suspense, for there to be a victim who is helpless, and for emotions to run high. Of course, each of these elements is present in “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

Pre-Reading Discussion

Before diving into the story itself, I like to do some pre-reading discussion with students to further prepare them for the text. I typically use questions that are meant to provoke text-to-self connections related to the story. This gets students emotionally invested in the subject matter before they even read the first sentence. Here are a couple of discussion questions I have used in the past:

• “What are some of your greatest fears?”
• “How do you feel when you know you have done something wrong?”

Because there are lots of new vocabulary terms in this story, I also like to do some pre-reading vocabulary work to prep students for what can at times be a challenging read. I encourage you to spend a little time going over some of the unfamiliar language with your students before they start reading. This way, your students will be less likely to get slowed down by words they might not have heard before (like “suavity” and “derision,” for example.) You might have students look up individual words in the dictionary to find their definitions, synonyms, etc., or even make a word wall!

Figurative Language

Just as Poe’s story includes plenty of new vocabulary terms, it is also rich in figurative language. Once your students have finished reading through the story, it can be a good idea to go through some of the examples with them. I like to use a figurative language activity  for this.

What I do is give students a series of quotes for them to label with the correct figurative language term. Then, I get them to find their own examples in the text. I have them focus on alliteration, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, and personification, in particular. These are the ones that appear most frequently in the text.

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Interactive Lecture

Then, fill in the gaps with an interactive lecture. This is where you can share a bit more detail about some of the other story elements. I find doing an interactive lecture at this point to be effective. It gives you the opportunity to emphasize certain aspects of the story that might not have been articulated during the classroom discussion so far. Even though you will be leading this yourself, it can be a good idea to try and involve students as much as possible here. Engage them with questions related to the lecture (instead of simply telling them the information).

Animated Interpretation

After concluding the interactive lecture, I like to show students an animated interpretation of “The Tell-Tale Heart.” This gives us all a break from talking, and it helps students visualize the story in a different way. Watching adaptations of literature can disrupt our initial perceptions of the source material, but that is not necessarily a bad thing! Doing this helps to widen our understanding of the source material.

Choice Project

As a final creative assignment, I have students choose between two assignments.

• Write a Prequel or Sequel:  The second assignment has students write a prequel or a sequel to the story. If students choose prequel, they explain how the narrator came to live with the old man and what came to make him so fearful of “the eye.” If students choose sequel, they will explain what happens after the speaker confesses his crime.

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The Tell Tale Heart Analysis Activities

Sep 19, 2023

More than any other short story writer, Edgar Allan Poe still captures the imaginations of his readers 150 years after his death. What I love most about his writing is that he appeals to even the most reluctant readers. In order to teach his most classic short story, however, you will definitely want to think about including The Tell Tale Heart Analysis Activities   for varying levels of student abilities.

More often than not, students enjoy the process of delving deeply into twisted plots and even more twisted characters. They become fascinated by Poe’s tales because the stories appeal to every one of us for various reasons. In The Tell Tale Heart, Poe describes the slow yet growing madness of a person bent on the death of an old man simply because of his eye, yet we are morbidly captivated.

We WANT to know the end! We NEED to know the end!

To help our students comprehend this frightening piece of iconic American literature, let’s guide them by focusing on specific areas for The Tell Tale Heart Analysis !

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5 Ways To Help Your Students Focus on The Tell Tale Heart Analysis

1.  focus on vocabulary.

To know every word in the dictionary is impossible. And for some students, knowing every word in a short story is just as impossible. Why not expose your students to the most important words of “The Tell Tale Heart” before they even begin reading? They will most certainly thank you as they read the entire story.

Here are 3 examples from the story to help your students as they work on The Tell Tale Heart Analysis:

• mad-crazy, insane
• dreadfully-awful, horrible
• cunningly-clever, deceitful

ACTIVITY IDEAS:

• Identify 5 words and look them up. Many times, students have access to technology, so they can easily search for and write down definitions!
• After looking up the definition of a word or several words, students can research synonyms and antonyms for each word.
• When students become more familiar with their vocabulary words, they can create a quick image for each word.
• Students can present their words, meanings, and images with the class; they will learn other ways of seeing words from their classmates!

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2. Focus on Plot

Identifying plot elements might seem super basic, but because of Poe’s use of higher-level language, many students may struggle to accomplish this goal. Make sure to explain each element first before your students begin to go more deeply into The Tell Tale Heart analysis!

PLOT ELEMENTS-

Exposition:  the introduction to the characters, setting, and conflict; helps to set the stage for the reader

Rising Action:  action that takes place after the exposition and leads up to the climax; develops the characters and builds suspense

Climax:  the most important part of the story; highest point of action that causes a change in some way

Falling Action:  action that takes place after the climax; leads to the resolution

Resolution:  the end of the story that resolves the conflict, reveals a change or lack thereof in the main character, and ends with a reflection connected to the meaning of the story

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3. Focus on Characterization

Focusing on characterization is the next level of analysis beyond plot and vocabulary. The goal is to get students to identify the traits of a character–primary or secondary–and/or how a character changes throughout the text.

THE TELL TALE HEART ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERIZATION STEPS:

•  Choose a character to analyze: the narrator or the old man.
•  Identify 3-5 pieces of evidence throughout the story for that character.
•  Analyze how the character changes from beginning to end.
•  Write a paragraph or create visuals that highlight the changes.

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4. Focus on Theme

Theme is simply a message from a story. Usually, we write a theme in 1 or 2 sentences, not a single word or phrase.

When students take the time to synthesize all of the information from a reading passage, they can come up with a more universal message relating to various topics!

Let’s say that you want your students to do The Tell Tale Heart analysis focused on creating thematic statements.

First, you will want to identify major topics in the story. Ex. murder, insanity, crime, hate, prejudice

Next, you will want to link the above ideas to what actually happens in the story.

Lastly, based on the topics and evidence, you will want to write a message linked to what the author is trying to about the topic.

EXAMPLE THEMES:

• Insanity will lead people to do horrific things if unchecked.
• People should not judge someone based on physical characteristics.

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5.  Focus on Psychoanalytic Criticism

This method is a bit tougher than the rest. Through psychoanalysis, we can examine the mental and emotional states of the characters as well as their implications. Then, the major objective would be to connect the character(s) to the author.

From what we know about Edgar Allan Poe, this type of analysis might be super interesting for students. They could research Poe’s background and try to make connections to this particular story!

Consider the following:

• Poe’s early life
• Poe’s addictions
• Poe’s marriage
• Poe’s family
• Poe’s education
• Poe’s career
• Poe’s death

By focusing on the psychological aspects of the narrator, students will find some VERY convincing similarities.

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A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"

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In this lesson, students participate in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA), in which they listen to "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and answer prediction questions at designated stopping points during the reading. Students then discuss and write a written response to the story at the conclusion of the lesson, in the form of either an acrostic poem or comic strip. This lesson works well at Halloween or at the beginning of a mystery unit.

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• Acrostic Poems : Students can use this online interactive tool to create an acrostic poem as a response to Poe’s story.
• Comic Creator : Students can use this online interactive tool to create a comic to summarize Poe’s story.
• 6 + 1 Trait® Writing model : This website describes the 6 + 1 Trait® Writing model, a powerful framework that enhances, supports, and helps students in learning writing techniques.

From Theory to Practice

• Good comprehension instruction involves explicit instruction and modeling of specific reading strategies.
• Students should practice the reading comprehension strategies by applying them to other texts.
• Routines, or transactional strategies, [e.g., the Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DLTA) or question—answer relationships (QAR)] are an integral part of a comprehensive literacy curriculum.
• The DLTA is an effective method for using prior knowledge to improve students' listening comprehension, schema, and thinking skills (Stauffer, 1975).

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NCTE/IRA National Standards for the English Language Arts

• 3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).
• 6. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.

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• Computers with Internet access
• LCD projector (optional)
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• "The Tell-Tale Heart" Vocabulary Worksheet
• Wish and a Star Sheet

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Student objectives.

Students will

• Improve their listening comprehension and prediction skills by participating in a Directed Listening–Thinking Activity (DLTA)
• Respond to literature read in class by either writing an acrostic poem or creating a comic strip
• Practice strong and effective writing as assessed by the 6 + 1 Trait® Writing model

Sessions 3 and 4

Allow students time to share their comic strips and acrostic poems with one another.

Student Assessment / Reflections

• After Session 1, you can assess students' predictions from the DLTA. Check for participation in the lesson and appropriate answers that demonstrate comprehension of the story.
• Use the Assessment Rubric included on the second page of "The Tell-Tale Heart" Assignment Shee t to evaluate students' comic strips and acrostic poems. The rubric focuses on the evaluation of ideas, writing conventions, and word choice (per the 6 + 1 Trait® Writing model ).
• Gather students into groups of four. Then have students fill in the Wish and a Star Sheet for each person in their group. Review the completed sheets before distributing them to students.
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This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.

The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts (prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so on).

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Here’s a good little lesson for tricking students into analyzing “The Tell-Tale Heart” theme.

A Case for Getting Rid of Cable and Learning “The Tell-Tale Heart” Theme

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My kids love them. Of course, most of your students will have cable, so you better give them an assignment so they pay attention.

The last movie on this page is the best, but I’ll let you decide.

Don’t get buried under floor boards of stress trying to come up with a great “Tell-Tale Heart” unit plan . This one has common-core aligned lesson plans, graphic organizers with answer keys, common core aligned essay rubrics, a quiz,  and my charm and wit. This unit is made by real teachers, not a bunch of publishing company suits sitting in a hotel room pretending to be teachers.

Check out these heart-pounding standards, first.

• RL.9-10.7 – Analyze the representation of a subject or a key scene in two different artistic mediums, including what is emphasized or absent in each treatment.
• RL.11-12.7 – Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text.

Perhaps you’re wondering how you could turn this into a lesson plan involving ELA Common Core standards?

Do it with a chart: Literary Interpretation T-Chart

• Divide or fold a paper in half, long ways.
• As you’re reading or after you’ve read  To Build a Fire,” list 6-10 things in the left column that are important to the story.
• As you watch the video, Write how those 6-10 things are portrayed in the video.
• If you’re really interested in continuing the learning, do a basic comparison paragraph with a judgment on how accurately the film portrays the short story.

Let's look at the movies. This first one's fairly chilling for 1941. You could probably read the story, watch the movie, and have time to fill out the chart.

You can focus the assignment on "The Tell-Tale Heart" theme, characters, mood, or whatever strikes your fancy.

https://youtu.be/YlTCXIJEj-c

This next one's actually beter, although it's shorter. You'd definitely have time to read, watch, and thoroughly complete the assignment, perhaps even with a comparison essay.

https://youtu.be/envukur1q3I

This next one is the absolute best "Tell-Tale Heart" movie. It begins with the crazed narrator chopping up a chicken--foreshadowing alert. This one's the longest of the three. I'd recommend the story be read either the class before ( here's some lesson ideas to make the reading more meaningful) or for homework.

Fill out the chart at the start of class. Watch the movie--it really is awesome. Compare the two.

You could also watch multiple video interpretations, filling out a chart for each one. You could knock out all three videos in one class.

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"The Tell-Tale Heart" Study Questions with Answers

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Study Questions

In case you haven’t already read the famous short story, you can find the full text of “The Tell-Tale Heart” here .

Question : What does the story’s title mean?

Answer : The story’s title refers to the beating heart that eventually drives the narrator to confess his crime. The reader is led to believe it is the beating of the old man’s heart he hears, an impossibility, considering the old man has been murdered and dismembered, leaving three possibilities: (1) the narrator is insane; (2) the narrator feels guilt over the crime and hears his own heart; (3) both.

Question : The narrator claims he is not mad. What evidence do we have that he is?

Answer : (1) He murders an old man because of his “vulture eye”; (2) He hears sounds from hell; (3) He dismembers the dead man’s corpse; (4) He hears the beating of a dead man’s heart; (5) He is paranoid; (6) He is “nervous–very, very dreadfully nervous.”

Question : What does the narrator do with the dead man’s body?

Answer : The narrator dismembers the body and carefully places it under a few floor boards in the old man’s room. He’s confident that his crime will not be discovered, even inviting the investigator to sit on a chair directly above the dead body.

Question : Why does the narrator want to kill the old man?

Answer : I’ll let him tell you: “Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this!” (172). Okay.

Question : The narrator visits the old man’s bedroom every night for seven nights before killing him on the eighth night. What finally causes him to commit the act?

Answer : He hears the old man’s heart. The narrator says, “It was the beating of the old man’s heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into rage…the hellish tattoo of the heart increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder every instant…I thought the heart must burst. And now a new anxiety seized me–the sound would be heard by a neighbor! The old man’s hour had come!” (174-5). Okay.

Question : The two controlling symbols in the story are the eye and the heart. What might these two symbols represent?

Answer : The old man’s eye is “pale blue, with a film over it,” indicating a lack of visual clarity and reliability. In this sense the eye symbolizes the narrator insomuch that all the information we receive comes through his distorted mind, much in the same way everything the old man sees is filtered through his distorted eye. Furthermore, the story is told through the narrator’s perspective, who claims his actions are on account of the distorted eye, which suggests the point of view is literally and symbolically filtered through the old man’s eye. Traditionally the heart symbolizes the emotional center of the individual. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” it symbolizes the narrator’s guilt.

Question : Give examples of how Poe creates suspense in the story?

Answer : (1) Foreshadowing - “I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.” (172). Pacing - the narrator describes the murder over several pages; (3) Dangerous Action - the narrator invites the police officer to sit directly above the dead body.

• Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales . New York: Signet, 1998. 172-177.

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These Heart Worksheets for Kids are a simple and easy way to have a fun themed-learning activity! Spending Valentine’s Day working brains sounds like a pretty sweet deal! Check out all the great options below.

The worksheets have hearts on them, focus on hearts, and are great for a themed-learning unit. Make sure to check them all out and have fun with the kids!

When it’s time to find fun things for the kids, worksheets and printables are always a good idea! The more you can use the worksheets, the more you’ll have engaged and active learners, too!

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Why are worksheets so important for children to use?

Worksheets offer children many benefits that make them essential to any learning experience. Structured sheets are important because they encourage pupils to practice their literacy and numeracy skills, allowing them to actively engage with concepts instead of just listening to explanations.

Additionally, worksheets can help scaffold instruction for students who may have difficulty understanding certain topics or focusing on a concept for long periods.

By breaking them down into smaller tasks within their worksheets, kids can stay engaged and move ahead at their own pace.

Finally, well-crafted worksheets can provide an invaluable assessment tool for educators. They allow kids to work through them at their own pace.

What are other Valentine-themed learning activities for kids?

Valentine’s Day is a great time to engage young learners in fun and educational activities. One activity that fosters creativity is crafting heart-shaped cards, decorations, and gifts with paper, colored pencils, or markers.

This hands-on experience allows children to practice fine motor skills while expressing themselves during the holiday season.

A related activity involves writing stories where students become authors of their love tales, describing characters and settings.

Additionally, math and science classroom lessons can be adapted to Valentine’s Day themes, such as measuring ingredients for heart-shaped cookies or investigating how flowers grow through experiments.

How to Make a Heart Unit Study?

Absolutely! Here’s an expanded version of the section:

Transform these heart worksheets into a comprehensive unit study with a little creativity and a lot of love! These worksheets are more than just a tool for your kids to learn about shapes and numbers; they can be the cornerstone of an immersive learning experience that will keep your little ones engaged.

Start by using the worksheets as a springboard for discussion. Talk about the significance of the heart shape, its association with feelings of love and kindness, and its importance in our body. This can lead to discussions about emotions, human biology, and even history as you talk about how the heart shape came to represent love.

Next, incorporate arts and crafts. Use the heart theme to inspire creativity. The children can make heart-shaped paper mache, garlands, or photo frames. This not only enhances their motor skills but also allows them to express their creativity and have tangible art pieces to show for their efforts.

Don’t forget to incorporate literature and music. Choose books and songs that revolve around love and hearts. This adds variety to the learning process and caters to children who learn better through auditory or verbal means.

Finally, turn snack time and playtime into educational opportunities. Prepare heart-themed snacks together, teaching them about nutrition while improving their cooking skills. Incorporate physical activities that tie into the heart theme, like a scavenger hunt for hidden paper hearts or a heart relay race.

Heart-Themed Creative Crafts

Engage your little ones with creative crafts that they will love! For example, heart-shaped paper mache or a DIY heart-shaped photo frame.

You could also include a heart-shaped paper garland activity, which will be fun to make and used to decorate their rooms.

Songs, Rhymes, and Story Time

Music and stories are great ways to learn and have fun. is a list of kid-friendly songs and rhymes that mention hearts or love and children’s books that revolve around the theme of love and hearts.

Classics like “Guess How Much I Love You” by Sam McBratney or “The Day It Rained Hearts” by Felicia Bond would be great additions.

Active Learning with Hearts

Make learning fun with heart-themed physical activities and science experiments. Some physical activities like a heart scavenger hunt or a game of “Pin the Heart on the Teddy Bear.”

Tasty Heart-Themed Snacks

Turn snack time into a heart-themed treat! For example, heart-shaped sandwiches or fruit pieces. You could even include heart-shaped cookies that they can decorate themselves.

The beauty of a unit study is its flexibility. You can tailor it to your child’s interests and learning style, making education a truly personalized experience. These heart worksheets are just the beginning of a fun-filled, educational journey that your children will surely love!

Here they are! The worksheets that you’ve been waiting for! Find the best ones you like, and get started immediately!

So much learning fun awaits!

Heart Worksheets for Kids

All of these worksheets have something to do with hearts! Heart shapes, the human body, and tons of Valentine's Day learning!

Valentine's Day Math Activity

Learn and play this fun math game using a fun Valentine’s theme.

Shape Worksheets

Help your kids learn and identify different shapes using this heart shape worksheet.

Free Romping & Roaring H Pack

Teach your kids about the letter H with this helpful printable worksheet.

Human Heart Worksheets Easy Lesson Plan

Use this printable unit to help educate your kids on the human heart.

Heart Worksheets

Learn about different parts of the human heart with these labeling worksheets.

Human Heart for Kids: 2 Fun Heart Models plus Worksheets

With two heart models and worksheets, this set has everything your kids need to learn all about the human heart.

Valentine Heart Count and Graph

Your little ones will practice their visual discrimination skills as they learn to count to ten in this fun activity.

Jar Of Hearts - Valentine's Day Math Printable

This activity is simple and has a fun math theme to go with it.

Conversation Heart Patterns

Making patterns is an early concept your kids need to learn and these conversation hearts make it fun!

Heart Skip Counting by 8 Easy Reader Book

Use this cute worksheet to teach your kids about skip counting.

Magic Heart Sight Words Activity

Your kids will be delighted to practice sight words as they uncover them behind each heart.

Valentines Day Math Worksheets {Free Kids Printables}

Do some simple addition and subtraction with these adorable math worksheets.

I *Heart* Math Practice for Addition Facts

Help your little ones practice addition with these adorable math practice sheets.

One More or Less Heart Clip Cards

These adorable heart clip cards are a great way to make math visual for your kids.

Number Bonds Worksheets

Use this hearts number bond worksheet to get in some math practice during Valentine’s Day.

Valentine Coloring Pages for Kids and Adults (23 Heart Coloring Pages)

These fun and intricate coloring pages are fun coloring activities for both kids and adults.

Valentine's Math - Kindergarten Worksheets

Perfect for kindergarteners, these math sheets are a fun and festive way to practice math.

Free Printable Immaculate Heart of Mary Coloring Page

These stained glass style coloring pages are perfect for your little ones to color.

Heart Number Bonds Worksheets

Practice number bonds with these adorable heart number bond worksheets.

Candy Heart Math Worksheets: Valentine’s Day Math

Incorporate math into a fun Valentine’s Day activity with these heart math worksheets.

The Human Heart Worksheets for Kids

Use these worksheets to teach your kids about how the human heart works.

Valentine’s Day Math for Preschoolers

Let your little ones practice math in a fun and festive way for Valentine’s Day.

Free Valentines Day Word Search Printables

These Valentine’s Word searches are a great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day in the classroom.

Valentines Day Lesson Plans

These Valentines Day Lesson Plans are perfect for combining learning and fun! Excellent for the kids!

Super Fun Valentine Preschool Activities

Here are some fun activities for the kids to do this Valentine's Day!

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Learn The Heart (18+)

THIS GAME IS FOR ADULT ONLY! YOU HAVE BEED WARNED.

SYNOPSIS STORY You travel back home after quitting your stressful job. One of your neighbors visits you, and it turns out to be your childhood friend.

GAMEPLAY Learn the Heart is a dating sim RPG. Experience the game by exploring the main character's hometown, dating a partner, playing minigames, learning about the partner's story, and making use of the feature-rich H-mode.

DATE AND IMPRESS YOUR PARTNER Call your chosen partner and take her out on a date. Impress her by giving her gifts and playing minigames with her.

DATE MINIGAMES Play date minigames and reach the minigames goal to impress her even more. Each location has its own unique minigames to play.

PARTNER STORIES Each partner has their own unique stories. Learn about them and get to know them better.

H-MODE Make use of a feature-rich H-mode with features including Camera zoom with movement, X-ray, a Male Transparency Slider, Speed adjustments, Immerse and Perspective. Each sex position is mostly unique and has three states: Movement, Climax, and Rest.

NEW ADDED CONTENT

FUTURE CONTENT There are more partners, locations, minigames, and other content to come! I want to work on this game and give you the best player experience. Feel free to support me on my patreon so I can continue working on this game.

Patreon Benefits

• Access to Polls
• 1 week access before the release

If you have questions or suggestions, you can ask me on discord. I am very much active and also do spoilers.

Credits :  Voice Acting - @MacStarVA - https://twitter.com/MacStarVA

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Development log

• Learn The Heart v0.3.6 25 days ago
• Learn The Heart v0.3.5 56 days ago
• Learn The Heart v0.3.4 85 days ago
• Learn The Heart v0.3.3 Dec 30, 2023
• V0.3.3 delayed next month Nov 05, 2023
• Learn The Heart v0.3.2 Oct 31, 2023
• Learn The Heart v0.3.1 Sep 30, 2023
• Learn The Heart v0.3.0 Aug 31, 2023

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how do i save?

goto bed at night

experience is great

Does anyone know how to unlock the girl with red hair (I don't know what her name is)

It's easy, just go to the beach and talk  to the girl, she will ask you to clean or help her with cleaning the beach, just pick up some bottles and papers and then talk to her again, but you need to go back to the beach in the afternoon, then go to the girl then click the heart button, she will accept it then you got her! Your welcome 

Thank you very much for the help bro

Why can't we just be faithful to our GF Mary in this game?

I mean you can but it's your choice if you want to talk to other girls while you're dating mary.

I just made an Account to post a comment on this game because this was by far the best porn game that I have ever played. I was playing for so long that I found myself getting all the girls and sex scenes and I loved it. I’m excited to see the progression on this game.

This Game is GOOD! Please keep up making the updates and so on, and don't ever put "pregnancy" in this game please 🙏 

Pregnancy gang sentences you to pregnancy.

i see a good future for this gam

One of the best games i played

Good game, lots of animations, interesting to play. Try it, very good.

what do the cheats even do

+money +gallery(click on photo frame on PC in room) +energy

( to enable open dev notes)

How do I get the cat girl unlock

Use skip time while in park

Can there be a better veteran mode or at least a cheat because I play the game get far save beat it delete it then want to get everything back and go to veterans mode and it's only half or 3 fourths of everything

There is already a veteran start in the main menu.

a better one I said better 

Will there be pregnancy in a future update?

Dang how does that interest you I'm actually curious

We really like this game,and we really need this game in chinese

please help me, I bought furniture and I don't know what to do with it, if I bought a basement too

When you enter to the basement you will see a little wrench in the upper right side, press it and you will be able to place the furniture.

pls make a Mac version ;-;

is it possibe there will be femdom like elements in thi sgame at all? or maybe even a sub/dom type of deal?

Somebody help how to unlock 3 girls at same time

You can't

can someon say to me how do i ynlock the 3 and the last girl

how do i get the girl that is in the library but its reading a book

I was just talking to her.

Does the mermaid include in one of the 6 girls?

Cuando sale la actualización 🫸🏻🫷🏻

I would like to ask the  Creator what does the cheat achievement do? Also how do I use decoration thanks regards player

Como faz a cena com 3 garotas juntas?

Where is aria

go fishing, with golden bait it is a chance to get aria, her scene is the worst in game though. (not saying game is bad, it's amazing game, by FAR my favourite porn game, it's amazing!!)

Where to find golden bait

The shady person sell it, you can find it noon at park. it cost 500 though. 

where can i find that red haired girl can anyone tell

on the beach

How do i get the money cheat i did it before but i forgat Please help

How do i put the furniture?

you have to buy a basement first

friend, please help me, how to arrange things in the basement?

click the fixing icon, and then in the right you wil see lists of furnitures, then you just click it and arrange. once you're done, click exit

isi this game have moaning sound?

atleast there have one hehe

How do I find Aria?  I've finished almost all the scenes with the other girls and I still haven't been able to find her (Aria), I also managed to unlock the scene with 3 girls at the same time. I'm not much of a fan of hentai-themed games, but I definitely liked this one, the interactions with the characters are very good and cute.  Your arts are cute and cool. 

Edit: I managed to finish the game. I got all the scenes of all the girls together and Aria's too (although it was difficult to get her) and unlocked all active.

I look forward to more updates, I really liked this game :3 

How did you get the cat girl?

The ruby is in the trash can by the path in the park give it to the cat at night and then you'll be able to date her

Where is aria?

Petition to change the button layout in swing minigames for android to be grouped together just like that of a ps controller

how do i find the fifth girl? is she the mermaid one?

Bro, in one of the catlyn story scenes, she is appearing (she is maybe elf)

no but i mean, how do i get to interact with her like with all the other girls

Fast easy and good, take notes everyone, this is how you do a GOOD sex game!

Fun game to play and capture all demand girls and the active development is pretty cool. I'm a heavy rhythm game player but I kinda like these chill, dare girlmultiple times, get girl, perform coitus with said girl, and repeat with some fun minigames along the way.

I literally created an account for this lmao 

Storytelling Lesson: Learn the “Homework for Life” by Matthew Dicks

I was just browsing on a lazy Sunday afternoon to learn about speaking from the heart and weaving stories into my content. I came across a beautiful blog post from Speaking by heart , that featured a TEDx video of Matthew Dicks, on learning a valuable skill for life: Take 2 minutes Writing down an incident from your life every single night before you go to bed.

He uses a simple spreadsheet to write it down, it need not be the entire story – it just needs to be a couple of sentences long, or a mix of keywords that help you recall that incident.

If you do this regularly, By the end of the month, you will have 30 stories that you can weave into your content.

Are you going to implement this? Let me know in the comments below:

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Sacred Heart strike starts today. Picketing begins at 2 p.m.

The strike at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center is scheduled to begin Monday. Starting at 2 p.m. the hospital’s 500 technical workers are expected to walk out and begin picketing their employer.

Workers gathered Friday evening at United Food and Commercial Workers International Union 3000 offices in Spokane to learn how to be strike captains – charged with leading the pickets and ensuring safety.

Pediatric cardiac sonographer Mark Kehoe said he volunteered to be a strike captain because he had “never felt more disrespected in his life” than in during recent contract negotiations with Providence.

“They have not been bargaining, not in good faith. Providence has made it clear to us that they don’t care about us,” he said.

The weeklong strike will be a “financial burden” on Kehoe but he believes it is “worth it to do something important.” It is the first time he has been on strike in his 32 year career at Providence, but Kehoe is “excited” to be on the picket line.

“I will be there every single day. At least for my 5-hour shift and probably longer. I told my family not to expect to see me very often,” he said. “My family is supportive. They’ve seen me come home, tired and grumbling and they understand I’ve got a high-pressure job. And they are 100% behind me and what we’re trying to do.”

In contrast, Sacred Heart surgical tech Angela Holmes is “anxious” as the strike approaches.

“I’ve worked for Sacred Heart for 25 years. And I’ve never been in this position before. I just don’t know what to expect,” she said. “It won’t be easy, but I feel like this is just the next step in what we need to do to hopefully help convince Providence that we are important people,” she said.

Before the same meeting, UFCW 3000 campaign director and lead negotiator Jackie Williams was packing supplies to bring to a hotel nearby the hospital that will act as the union’s base of operations during the strike. Williams said she would rather be negotiating with Providence than preparing for the strike.

“If they truly wanted to avert the strike and not have a strike, they’d be bargaining with us right now,” she said.

Providence stopped bargaining with the union when they submitted a 10-day strike notice. According to Providence Inland Northwest CEO Susan Stacey, the hospital system could not bargain because it needed to focus all resources toward preparing for the strike.

“Once we get a strike notice our attention turns from negotiating to preparing. We have to take these 10 days to get ready because the primary focus now is being able to take care of our community and staying open and ready for the patients who are going to come through our doors. When the strike is over, we’ll turn our attention right back to getting back to the table and negotiating,” Stacey said last week.

Williams doesn’t buy that explanation – calling it “baffling” and “almost punitive” towards the workers.

“They can be bargaining. They’re choosing not to,” she said.

In an interview with The Spokesman-Review, Stacey echoed that same sentiment in the opposite direction.

“We didn’t choose this. UFCW chose this,” she said last week.

At issue in the negotiation is pay, which the union argues is not market competitive with other local hospital systems. According to Stacey, Providence last offered an across-the-board raise of 7% to 9.75%, as well as further increases based upon different job types.

Under the previous contract, base pay among all positions within the bargaining unit range from $19.72 an hour for a nutrition center technician to $39.04 an hour for some kinds of nuclear medicine technologists. While most of the positions top out of the wage scale between $30 and $40 an hour, the highest paid and most experienced nuclear medicine technologists reach up to $60 an hour under the expired contract.

Union spokesperson Anna Minard said that while technical workers may not be as visible as doctors or nurses, they are just as vital to the smooth running of a hospital.

“They are in the surgeries making sure nothing goes wrong. They provide patient care and medications. They do X-rays or ultrasounds. These are highly skilled professions,” Minard said.

Here is a list of some of the jobs included under the technical workers union.

• Surgical technologists
• Cardiovascular technologists
• Pharmacy technicians
• Nuclear medicine technologists
• Respiratory therapists
• Mental health technicians and counselors
• Maternity technicians
• Sonographers
• Phlebotomists
• Radiology technologists

UFCW 3000 is being supported by Sacred Heart’s nurses union. In a statement, Washington State Nurses Association spokesperson Ruth Schubert said nurses should wear a sticker supporting their coworkers.

“WSNA nurses recognize that these tech workers provide vital services that are essential to high quality care for our patients. We fully support our tech co-workers in their fight for a fair contract,” she said in a statement.

Schubert also noted that overtime is voluntary and that nurses can “refuse to work overtime without fear of retaliation.

Kehoe said he looks forward to getting to help children again when the strike is over.

“I’ve got parents and families that are counting on me, and I would much rather be in there with them than out on a picket,” he said.

“It’s fulfilling to be there helping families and go through some very difficult times with them. I often break down and cry with them. But from that initial diagnosis of your child having a heart defect to going through surgeries and follow ups for the rest of these kids lives, I’ll be there,” he said. “That’s one of the most rewarding things in my life for me.”

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Unpacking the alleged crime that made Trump’s alleged crime a felony

Attorneys offered opening arguments in the criminal trial of Donald Trump on Monday in Manhattan, beginning the process of presenting to the jury the state’s case against the former president. The jury will ultimately be asked not whether Trump is guilty of a crime in the abstract but, instead, whether the state provided enough evidence to eliminate any doubt that he violated the letter of the law. This means that the letter of the specific law undergirding the charges in the indictment against Trump is crucially important.

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In that indictment , Trump is charged with 34 felonies, each predicated on his having allegedly falsified business records. Specifically, prosecutors argue, he caused the Trump Organization and his personal trust to record payments made to attorney Michael Cohen in 2017 as retainer fees rather than as reimbursements for the $130,000 that Cohen paid to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

Falsifying business records is not always a felony. But if the “intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof,” the New York criminal statute reads , it can be charged as one. As it was in each of the charges against Trump.

So what is the “another crime?” It isn’t articulated in the criminal indictment. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) was somewhat vague when the indictment was handed down, saying that the intent was “to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”

Offering his opening statement Monday, prosecutor Matthew Colangelo made clear that the crime was centered on Cohen’s payment to Daniels.

“This was a planned, coordinated, long-running conspiracy to influence the 2016 election,” Colangelo said , “to help Donald Trump get elected through illegal expenditures, to silence people who had something bad to say about his behavior, using doctored corporate records. It was election fraud, pure and simple.”

Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, rejected that idea.

“There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election; it’s called democracy,” he said during his opening statement. “They put something sinister on this idea as if it was a crime. You’ll learn it’s not.”

Except that it can be. And in this case, almost certainly is.

At issue is another fairly esoteric body of law: campaign-finance limits. These laws limit how much money people can contribute to political campaigns and how campaigns have to report what they take in and how they spend it. Outside parties can spend money on promoting candidates, too; those are called independent expenditures. But they can’t coordinate with the campaigns or candidates on how they plan to do so.

The goal of those laws — an important aspect of the issue at hand — is centrally to limit the corruption that could follow from a big donor bankrolling a candidate’s entire campaign. If, say, Google could simply put up a candidate and spend $1 billion getting her elected to the Senate, it would be hard for anyone to compete — and Google would have a presumably loyal senator sitting in D.C.

So with those prohibitions in mind, consider what Cohen did — as he admitted when pleading guilty to federal campaign-finance charges.

Cohen and a representative of Trump’s campaign (later revealed to be Trump ) met with David Pecker — then chairman of American Media Inc. and publisher of the National Enquirer — in August 2015 . Pecker offered to help the campaign by buying stories that would reflect negatively on Trump and then burying them. AMI and Pecker confirmed this story in a non-prosecution agreement reached with the government.

Already, you can see that this is an offer to benefit the campaign that involved coordination with agents of the campaign; that is, with people empowered to act on the campaign’s behalf. That’s Trump himself, of course, but also Cohen, who would represent the campaign publicly and discussed campaign strategy with Trump.

When Pecker later bought a similar story from former Playboy model Karen McDougal for $150,000 intending to bury it, it 1) was an action taken to benefit the campaign, as per the August 2015 meeting and 2) was not an independent expenditure, since the McDougal payment was made in consultation with Cohen. Cohen pleaded guilty to “causing an unlawful corporate contribution” — since corporations like AMI can’t legally contribute to campaigns, and the $150,000 was a non-monetary contribution to Trump. AMI and Pecker offered testimony, resulting in that non-prosecution agreement.

In October 2016, a month before the election, Pecker informed Cohen about Daniels’s story. Cohen reached a deal with Daniels’s attorney — also McDougal’s attorney — for $130,000, but didn’t pay immediately. Only when Cohen learned that Daniels was thinking of going public elsewhere in the days before the election did Cohen finally pay the money.

Cohen pleaded guilty to federal campaign-finance charges related to this as well. That plea didn’t depend on arguing that Cohen was an agent of the campaign, though; instead, it argued that Cohen made the contribution — more than $100,000 over the federal limit — “in cooperation, consultation, and concert with, and at the request and suggestion of one or more members of the campaign.” A later filing identified that member of the campaign: Trump .

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Some on the right have argued that the payment to Daniels didn’t violate campaign-finance law. Earlier this month, Trump shared on social media a 2023 article written by the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy, making that case.

The timing, McCarthy argued, “was just common-sense hardball” on the part of Daniels and McDougal, “striking when their leverage against the notoriously parsimonious Trump was at its height; it didn’t mean that [nondisclosure agreements] — which Trump had plenty of other personal, political, and business incentives to pay for — were necessarily in-kind campaign expenses.”

Perhaps this could be an argument made against such charges, albeit a dubious one. After all, Cohen recorded a September 2016 conversation with Trump in which they discussed the McDougal case and, in another context, the need to bury negative information until after Election Day. The idea that Trump and Cohen didn’t view the Daniels payment as related to the campaign is ridiculous — especially since it first came to their attention immediately after The Washington Post published the “Access Hollywood” tape , drawing new scrutiny to Trump’s interactions with women.

But Trump’s defense team isn’t trying to make McCarthy’s argument anyway.

“There’s nothing wrong with trying to influence an election,” Blanche told jurors Monday. “It’s called democracy.”

So if Trump was admittedly trying to influence the election by agreeing with Cohen to pay off Daniels, then Cohen — as he admitted in federal court — violated campaign-finance laws. And therefore, if the repayments to Cohen were falsified to obscure their intent — remember, the Cohen-Daniels story didn’t become public until 2018, after the reimbursements had been made — it seems as though that was done to “conceal the commission” of those campaign-finance violations.

Proving Trump actively caused the records to be falsified is the central job of Manhattan prosecutors. Demonstrating that the records were allegedly falsified to obscure this other crime seems a much easier task.

Trump New York hush money case

Former president Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial is underway in New York. Follow live updates from the trial .

Jury selection: A full jury of 12 jurors and six alternates has been seated. Here’s what we know about the jurors .

The case: The investigation involves a $130,000 payment made to Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress , during the 2016 presidential campaign. It’s one of many ongoing investigations involving Trump . Here are some of the key people in the case .

The charges: Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Falsifying business records is a felony in New York when there is an “intent to defraud” that includes an intent to “commit another crime or to aid or conceal” another crime. He has pleaded not guilty . Here’s what to know about the charges — and any potential sentence .

Can Trump still run for president? The short answer, legal experts said, is yes. The U.S. Constitution does not forbid Trump, or anyone else, from serving as president if convicted of a felony.