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

Tools for this Unit:

Notes

Bakerman, Jane S. "Guises and Disguises of the Eccentric Amateur Detective."

Bargannier 111-127.

Bargannier, Earl F., ed. Comic Crime. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State

University Press, 1987.

Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind. New York: Ballantine Books, 1972.

Bible

Bloom, B.S. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook 1: The Cognitive

Domain. New York: David McKay Co. Inc., 1956.

Browne, Ray B. Murder on the Reservation: American Indian Crime Fiction.

Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

Cavin, Ruth. "The Mystery Novel From an Editor's Point of View."

Grafton 205-215.

Connelly, Michael. "Characterization." Grafton 57-64.

Christie, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Novel. New

York: Berkley Books, 1926.

Dove, George N. The Reader and the Detective Story. Bowling Green, Ohio:

Bowling Green State University Press, 1997.

Dunne, Michael. "The Comic Capers of Donald Westlake." Bargannier 168-180.

Fry, Paul. Seminar Lecture.

Giedd, Dr. Jay. "Adolescent Brains Are Works in Progress." Frontline. WGBH,

Boston. 31 Jan. 2002.

Grafton, Sue, ed. Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of

America. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books, 2002.

Healy, Jeremiah. "The Rules and How to Bend Them." Grafton 6-12.

Johnson, Craig. Kindness Goes Unpunished. New York: Viking Penguin, 2007.

Kozol, Jonathan. On Being a Teacher. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1993.

Paretsky, Sara. Hard Time. New York: Dell Publishing, 2000.

Wheat, Carolyn. "Dress for Success: Developing Your Personal Style."

Grafton 121-128.

Winks, Robin. Modus Operandi. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982.

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