Engage your students with Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" by facilitating a mock trial while practicing close reading, citing strong and thorough textual evidence, analyzing evidence, persuasion/argumentation/debate, writing, and speaking/listening. This is truly an authentic learning experience that covers a wide range of essential skills and gets every student involved! This bundle contains the discussion cards I use to activate students' thinking before the mock trial, as well as the comple