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"A Study In Scarlet" Chapter 4 "A Flight for Life" 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 support judgments through references to the text. Students demonstrate an understanding of a literary work.

OBJECTIVES/OUTCOMES

• Students will reread the prior chapter to prepare for a classroom discussion.
  
• Students will analyze Sherlock’s methods.
  
• Students will understand that authors allow insight into a character’s thought to specific details.

QUOTABLE QUOTES

"I am one of the hounds and not the wolf."

-Sherlock Holmes, pg. 25.

"You know a conjuror gets no credit once he has explained his tricks, and if I show you too much of my method of working, you will determine that I am a very ordinary individual after all."

-Sherlock Holmes, pg. 24.

RESOURCES

• Sherlock text
  
  PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

• Students will have read "A Study in Scarlet Chap. 4 for homework.

  ACTIVITIES/ OUTCOMES
  

• Students will have time to reread Chapter 4 of "A Study in Scarlet."
  
• In small groups students will briefly summarize the chapter and its relationship to the prior three chapters.
  
• Discussion: Sherlock determines that the writing was intended to trick the police. How does he do this? What skills have we talked about before that help him accomplish it? (well-rounded.)
  
• Students will make predictions for Chapter 5.

  ASSESSMENT
  

• NOTE: This chapter is very short and the assessment will be combined with Chapter 5.

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