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"A Study In Scarlet" Chapter 2 Lesson:

Unit/Theme: Sherlock Holmes      Level: Honors

Subject: Seventh Grade English

NYS Standards/ Benchmarks: E1b. Students make and support warranted and responsible assertions about the texts. Students make perceptive and well developed connections.

OBJECTIVES/OUTCOMES

• Students will be provided with silent reading time to review Chapter 2 or read ahead.
  
• Students will understand an author’s use of "comic relief."
  
• Students will discuss and analyze Watson’s profile of Holmes.
  
• Students will be assessed of Chapter 2 of "A Study in Scarlet."

QUOTABLE QUOTE

"You see, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose"

-Sherlock Holmes. Pg. 15

RESOURCES

• Sherlock Holmes text
  
  PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

• Students will have read "A Study in Scarlet" Chap. 3 for homework.

  ACTIVITIES/ OUTCOMES
  

• (NOTE: There are many events in this chapter that students need to understand thoroughly. A class discussion/question and answer session is very important and will assist moving on.)
  
• Silent reading: 10-15 minutes
  
• Minilesson: What is the purpose for having Lestrade and Gregson in the story. They don’t solve any cases. What is Sherlock’s opinion (pg. 21)? Identify other books you have read with characters as comic relief.
  
• Holmes says on pg.21 "There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before." What does he mean by this? Is this true? How does it relate to crime?
  
• Discussion: Watson provides a tremendous profile of Holmes that will assist throughout the stories. What are Holmes strengths and weaknesses? How do you think he appears to other detectives? How did he become this way? What personality traits are helpful? Which are not? Which of these traits do you have?

  ASSESSMENT
  

• Read Chapter 4. In your notes create a list of important events in Chapter 4.
  
• "A Study in Scarlet" Chapter 3 quiz

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