Across the Curriculum with Detective Fiction for Young People and Adults

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 07.02.08

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Overview
  2. Rationale
  3. "Why a Duck?"
  4. Kindness Goes Unpunished
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Notes
  8. Teacher Resources
  9. Student Resources
  10. Appendix A
  11. Appendix B
  12. Appendix C
  13. Appendix E

More Than Just Whodunit - Using a Mystery Story to Motivate Tenth-Grade Students to Read

William Sandy Lewis

Published September 2007

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Appendix C

Mystery Morphology

The following outline gives a skeletal framework which is common to mystery stories.

PREAMBLE: Story begins; a happy setting soon to be disrupted; or victim is accompanied to his/her death.

CRIME REPORTED OR DISCOVERED:

PROBLEM-SOLVER INTRODUCED (detective, private eye, cop):

INTERESTED PARTIES APPEAR (are tracked down):

SUCCESSIVE INTERVIEWS:

ADDITIONAL CRIME OR THREAT OF CRIME: (in response to pressure of interviews)

CLUES LEAD TO CULPRIT: (but no prosecutorial proof)

ENTRAPMENT OF CULPRIT: (showdown)

AFTERMATH: (often humorous)

Subplot(s)

  1. The subplot may or may not tie into main plot.
  2. There may be a love interest.
  3. The investigator has domestic duties or difficulties.
  4. There may be tensions within the investigative team.

Appendix D

Character | Traits | Source (pg.#)

1. Walt Longmire

2. Henry Standing Bear

3. Cady Longmire

4. Vic

5. Devin Conliffe

6. Lena Moretti

7. Detective Katz

8. Detective Gowder

9. Vince Osgood

10. Joanne Fitzpatrick

11. Billy Carlisle

12. Shankar DuVall

13. Toy Diaz

14. William White Eyes

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