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Sherlock Holmes Stasis and Intrusion Lesson:

Unit/Theme: Sherlock Holmes      Level: Honors

Subject: Seventh Grade English

NYS Standards/ Benchmarks: E5a: The student identifies recurring themes across works. E5a: examines the reasons for a character’s actions, taking into account the situation and basic motivation of the character.

OBJECTIVES/OUTCOMES

• Students will be provided silent reading time.
  
• Students will be able to define and identify "stasis" and "intrusion" in a Sherlock Holmes story.
  
• Students will improve cooperative learning skills in group work.
  
• Students will contribute to the "Sherlock quoteboard."

QUOTABLE QUOTE

"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."

-"The Red-Headed League"

RESOURCES

• Sherlock Holmes text
  
  You are walking along the street on a sunny day. Everything is going well (stasis.) Suddenly a huge bird swoops down, picks you up and carries you off to a deserted island in the middle of an ocean (intrusion.) For years you fight to survive on the island and eventually build a boat and make your way back to civilization (stasis recreated until the next intrusion. (fight to return stasis)
  

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

• Students have read "A Scandal in Bohemia."

  ACTIVITIES/ OUTCOMES
  

• Entire class will silently read a book of their choice and update their reading logs (20 minutes.)
  
• Students will be provided a scenario where stasis is interrupted by intrusion and the character fights to return stasis.
  
• Using "The Red-Headed League" students will identify the intrusion in the story and the events that happen to return stasis at the end of the story.
  
• On chart paper students will transfer their events and demonstrate their knowledge of the topic.
  
• Students will present their work to their classmates.
  
• Update Sherlock quoteboard.

  ASSESSMENT
  

• Group work
  
• Presentations

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