Across the Curriculum with Detective Fiction for Young People and Adults

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.02.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Rationale
  2. Research
  3. Strategies
  4. Activity One: Your Number One Buddy
  5. Activity Two: Noting the Crime Scene
  6. Activity Three: What's the Sentence?
  7. Concluding Activity: Back to the Beginning
  8. Appendix A: Mystery Terms
  9. Appendix B: Clues Found After Page 22
  10. Appendix C: Implementing District Standards
  11. Annotated Bibliography

Using a Mystery Novel to Encourage Pleasure Reading and Imaginative Thinking

Cathy C. Kinzler

Published September 2007

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Appendix C: Implementing District Standards

While teaching this unit, teachers will be incorporating some of Virginia's Standards of Learning Objectives in English for Grades Seven and Eight.

7.1 (Oral Language) Students will give and seek information in conversations, in group discussions, and in oral presentations, especially using vocabulary and style appropriate for listeners, and asking probing questions to seek elaboration and clarification of ideas.

7.5 (Reading) Students will read a variety of forms of literature and deal with the elements of literature, making inferences and summarizing.

8.5 (Reading) also intends for students to be able to describe inferred main ideas or themes using evidence from the text as support, and to describe how authors create meaning using characters, conflict, point of view and tone.

7.8 (Writing) Students will develop narrative, expository, and persuasive writing.

8.7. (Writing) Students will write in a variety of forms, including narrative, expository, persuasive, and informational.

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