Across the Curriculum with Detective Fiction for Young People and Adults

Appendix

Candle Observations Quiz

1. What was the color of the stripes on your candle?
2. What color was the wick of your candle?
3. What was the height of your candle?
4. What was the circumference of your candle?
5. What was the distance between the stripes of your candle?
6. What color was the flame closest to the wick?
7. At what rate did your candle burn?
8. What was the height of your candle after burning it?
9. What color was the smoke coming from your candle?
10. How many times did the stripe wrap around the candle?

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" - Evidence Sheet

Describe the victim and the crime

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List possible suspects and their Possible Motives Evidence

Characteristics

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Who do you think committed the crime and how do you think it was done?

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Works Cited

Doyle, Arthur C. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Great Britain: Oxford UP, 1993. A collection of twelve of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories with explanatory notes.

Schreck, James. The Chemistry Companion for Middle School Science Teachers. Madison, WI: Institute for Chemical Education, 1997.

Sepup, comp. Science & Life Issues. Ronkonkoma, NY: Lab-Aids, 2001.

Sobol, Donald J. Enyclopedia Brown Mystery Collection. New York: Scholastic, 1982. A collection of very short mysteries written on the third to fifth grade level.

Thomas, Ronald R. Detective Fiction and the Rise of Forensic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Synopses of detective fiction and the evidence used to solve the mysteries.

Wagner, E. J. The Science of Sherlock Holmes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006. Great book for learning the forensics used by Sherlock Holmes and great historical cases of the time that may have influenced Arthur Conan Doyle.

Websites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_reasoning

http://www.sparknotes.com/math/geometry3/inductiveanddeductivereasoning/section1.html

http://laurajames.typepad.com/clews/2006/03/a_study_in_sher.html

http://www.aisb.org.uk/aibites/theorem_proving.pdf

http://tabacco.blog-city.com/sherlock_holmes__deductive_reasoning_how_to_become_a_brillia.htm