Welcome, Sherlockians!
We are about to embark on an amazing literary journey through the one of the best known mystery series of all time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Before we begin to read the short stories, it's important to understand information about the author, time period in which the stories were written, the setting of the stories, and the characteristics and history of the mystery genre.
As we explore this unit, we will be considering the following essential questions:
1. What role does the power of observation play in helping us to understand the world we live in?
2. Why is murder, mystery, crime and punishment so intriguing to humans?
3. What makes Sherlock Holmes a timeless character, who is still being depicted almost 200 years after he was first created?
The Task at Hand
For this assignment, you will use your best detective skills to find information on the internet about topics relating to the Sherlock Holmes stories.
- You will use this website as your "home base" - all websites that have been approved by your teacher are linked through this site.
- To direct your research, you will use the notes sheet provided by your teacher. Each answer, to every question, is located
somewhere within the websites that you are being directed to. It's up to you to detect the information with close and careful reading. - You do not have to use complete sentences on your notes sheet, as long as you can understand the information you're recording.
- After researching each topic and completing your notes sheet, you must then transfer your information onto your foldable, which will be your final product. (See below for instructions).
The Foldable
Foldables are ways to interesting and useful ways to display information.
Requirements
Requirements
- You must transfer your information from your notes sheet to your foldable. Your information must be written using complete sentences, proper capitalization and punctuation. The information also must be correct.
- You should type the information, but neatly handwritten is okay, too. If you neatly write, it should be traced over in pen or marker, neatly. Depending on whether you choose to type or write manually, the entire project should be completed in that way. (In other words, you shouldn't have some topics be typed and others be hand written.)
- Each topic must have at least one visual relating to that topic.
- Each topic's section must have a "title" that shows what the topic is.
- All information, visuals and titles must be glued neatly on to your foldable in the correct way that has been displayed to you.