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Classroom
Activities
before you
start the mystery
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Think about
mysteries. Generate a discussion about mysteries by using
the following questions. Write the students answers on the
blackboard, or have each student write their answers in
their notebook. Read a mystery book, or watch a mystery on
video, then compare their answers. A new discussion should
come out of this exercise as they will discover new ideas
about mysteries.
For this Internet
Project, you may want to ask your students how a boat could
become part if a mystery. Why would a competition rowing
boat go missing? How would it go missing? Where could
someone hide a rowing boat? How would they do it?
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General
Questions about Mysteries
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General
Questions about Crime
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- What is a
mystery?
- What type/
kind of mysteries are there?
- What is your
favourite mystery book, movie, or TV program?
Why?
- What makes a
good mystery?
- Why are
mysteries suspenseful? How do they make you
curious?
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- What is a
crime?
- What type of
crimes are there?
- Who helps
investigate?
- What is
evidence?
- Who collects
the evidence?
- What might
you look for at the crime scene? What might you do/look
at to help solve the crime?
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Vocabulary
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Read a short
mystery. Ask students to list the vocabulary used in
mysteries. Write the words on the blackboard. The following
words should be in your vocabulary. If not, add the
following words that they may have missed. I have included a
link to a crossword
puzzle
for your students to do.
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alibi
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A person
who says you were with them
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victim
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Something
bad that has happened to the person in a
crime
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clue
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Something
that appears to give information towards solving a
crime.
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statement
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A
written and signed interview with the
police.
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deductions
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Collecting
facts and drawing a conclusion
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identity
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The name
of a person
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evidence
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Facts
that prove something about the
crime.
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sleuth
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An
investigator or detective.
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red
herring
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A false
lead to throw the detectives off the
track.
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suspect
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A person
who the police think might have committed the
crime.
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witness
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A person
who has personal knowledge about the
crime.
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crime
scene
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The
place were a crime has been
committed.
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Get
your students to make a crossword puzzle.
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this site.
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Email the
Crumbmaster if you have any questions, and/ or if you would
like to see other activities included.
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