Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery Novel by Sheila McCombs https://padlet.com/sheilamccombs/j2vbd9twy9qox95b Education Technology Final Project en-us 2021-11-30 22:47:56 UTC 2021-12-14 17:19:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4da.png Overview sheilamccombs https://padlet.com/sheilamccombs/j2vbd9twy9qox95b/wish/1921554002 This unit will focus on the mystery genre and what the important literary elements are within that genre. It will also help students to be able to give definitions to those literary elements such as dramatic irony. Students will also read “The Adventure of The Speckled Band” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and be able to identify the actual uses of those elements within the story. Students will then have the opportunity to write their own mystery short story, and present it to the class using one of the storytelling apps given as options! 


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  • Understand the history of the mystery novel and the special elements applied to that genre
  • Draw practical examples of literary elements from the text 
  • Be able to define the literary elements used in this kind of a story 
  • Complete assessments about these definitions both in the group and individually
  • Apply these elements to their own stories, and identify how they used them 
  • Be able to think creatively and come up with their own story, and then present that story in an engaging way to the rest of the class  

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    • Talk about the history of the thriller novel, and the Sherlock Holmes stories 
      • Anticipation questions 
    • Begin to learn about the literary elements in relation to that genre 
    • Look at historical context for the time the story was written
    • Introduce “The Adventure of The Speckled Band” and begin reading the first section/ introduction letter
    • Exit Ticket on history of the mystery novel 
    • Ed Tech Tools Used
      • Socrative Exit Ticket for anticipation questions  and exit ticket 
      • EdPuzzle for Youtube Video 
      • Edmodo for lesson planning 
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  • Focus on literary terms and definitions 
  • Start with an entrance quiz on literary elements that focus on finding out what students might already know, doing this as a whole class through Socrative 
  • Go over literary elements by having students first pick out sentences from the next section of the story, and do those individually
  • Using Whimsical make a class brainstorming web that shows the literary terms, then the branches for sentences from the story
  • Then have the class work together in pairs to post their own versions of sentences that make use of those elements 
    • Add these to the Whimsical Web! 
  • Do the entrance quiz again, and try to improve scores based on what we have learned that day 
  • Ed Tech Tools Used 
    • Whimsical 
    • Socrative  

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    • Finish the story at the beginning of class! 
    • Discuss what the ending of mysteries traditionally look like and then work to compare the ending of the short story 
    • Watch the Scooby Doo video and talk about how we still have endings like that in tv and movies today
    • Introduce the story idea and allow students to have a group discussion about what kind of story they would want to write
    • Post a poll on socrative and have each student answer with their idea, and then go over the story ideas as a class and give feedback 
    • Break the story down into three parts; 
      • using the traditional things of a mystery novel,
      •  using the literary terms that we went over in class
      • And modeling the ending that we talked about 
    • Do an exit survey about what we discussed in class that day
    Ed Tech Tools Used
    • Socrative 
    • Youtube 

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    • Focus on writing their own stories at the beginning of class, individually for the first 20 minutes 
    • The stories only have to be about 2-3 pages long, so they should only take a few days 
    • Then pair the students in a peer editing group, four students per group and have them work together as they write 
    • Have them use google docs in order to suggest edits on throughout the process, because it allows for the author to accept whatever content they want to 
    • Then move into introducing the storytelling software, give students the options of using either, 
      • Toontastic 
      • Storyboard that 
    • These will work the best because they seem to be the most intuitive of the storytelling apps, so it would be the fastest for the students to put together 
    • Have the writing groups pick one of their stories to create a cartoon out of, and do an exit ticket on socrative explaining their choice 
    •  All students will have to submit their written stories to be graded but to save time, have only one story made with the storytelling app!
      • If this is a class that has more time for this unit, have each student create their own cartoon 
    • Ed Tech Tools Used 
      • Google Docs 
      • Toontastic 
      • Storyboard that 
      • Socrative  
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  • Have the students work on their projects together at the beginning of class, and use one of the apps that they have created 
  • Do a brief introduction into the idea of animation and talk about the different stylistic choices that they can make to convey their stories 
  • Go back to the ideas of the mystery novel and the literary terms used in order to make sure that they are using those to guide their stories, both the written and animated versions 
  • Then, have a brief discussion of how their projects are going so far, and any problems that they are having with the software as a class to work out any problems 
  • Give the students the rest of the period to work and finish up their written stories or their animated ones whichever need more work 
  • Do an exit ticket at the end of class on Socrative, and see ask them how far along they are with the projects 
  • Give them the weekend to finish both things, and tell them that on the last day of the unit in the next class they will present their work on the animated stories
  • Also, let them know that there will be a short quiz on Socrative for the end of the unit, that will go over… 
    • The literary terms 
    • The concepts of a mystery novel



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    • Last day of the unit!! 
    • First, go over the literary terms one more time, and talk about what the quiz will look like at the end of class
    • Give students time to ask questions about the quiz and the review sheet 
    • Move on to the presentations of the animations
    • After each group goes, give the rest of the class a chance to ask questions about why the group made the choices that they did and why 
    • Give feedback after each presentation and talk about the good parts of it, (don’t give negative feedback in front of the class)
    • Then have a brief discussion of the presentations and ask the class how they think they went, and what they liked/didn’t like about the assignment 
    • Move on to the quiz on socrative with a mix of multiple choice and true/false questions 
    • Collect the papers and have the presentation groups email their videos to me for grading 
    • Do a quick exit ticket, at the end of the quiz, and just ask the students for feedback on the unit as a whole, as well as what they would like to be changed 
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  • Allow for an alternate version of the written story, able to be listened to or watched 
  • Have students focus on the audio/visual aspects of the story and not just the written one
  • Allow for testing accommodations for quizzes and exit tickets 
  • provide exit tickets in advance of class, as long as they are not time sensitive 

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    • Anticipation questions 
    • Edpuzzle participation 
    • Exit Ticket 
    • Day 2 
      • Entrance ticket 
      • Whimsical Board answers, and the examples that they used from the story and the ones they created themselves 
      • Exit Ticket 
    • Day 3 
      • Poll on their ideas 
      • Feedback to classmates in class discussions 
      • Exit survey 
    • Day 4 
      • The comments they give on others papers 
      • Exit ticket and their ability to defend their choices 
    • Day 5 
      • None for this day 
    • Day 6 
      • Presentation 
      • Questions asked during presentations 
      • Quiz on socrative 
      • Ability to think critically about the unit 
    • The anticipation questions and entrance/exit tickets will be graded for participation, not numerical grades 
    • The stories, the presentations, and the papers will be graded numerically to create one grade for the entire unit   
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