ELECTIVE READING AND ENGLISH UNITS by SHIRLEY OESCH A PROJECT in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts June 1975 PROJECT APPROVAL Advisor. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXPLANATION OF THE PROJECT SECTION Ia DETECTIVE STORIES UNIT SECTION IIa SPORTS LITERATURE UNIT SECTION IIIa WESTERN LITERATURE UNIT Explanation of the Project Many of the E.S.E.A. English and Reading classes in the Kern High School District emphasize small group instruction using adult and student aides. There has been a need for teaching materials geared to these aides. This project was developed to fill part of that need. It contains three, fifteen-day teaching units for ninth grade high school students. These area a. Detective Stories Unit b. Sports Literature Unit c. Western Literature Unit These subject areas were chosen because of their high interest value to high school students. The units are designed to be taught to the students by an adult or student aide. Therefore, all the directions are written to the aide. There are four parts to every lesson. 1. Materials• This section lists all the books, plays, stories, dittoes, and equipment needed to teach the lesson. In addition, it tells anything that must be written on the board. 2. Skills• This section tell what abilities the students will be called on to use or develop. J. Lesson• This section gives the step-by=step procedure for the aide to follow. 4. Evaluation• Every day each student is to be graded on a point system. 5 points = highest grade or A 4 points = B 3 points = c 2 points = D 1 point = F The lower grades are to be given only for lack of effort. In a small group situation with individual help available, achievement problems are minimized. Each day there are instructions to collect and correct homework. This homework is assigned to the class as a whole and is not an integral part of the unit. If there is a need for extra assignments because of extra time on any day or additional days scheduled, there are some supplementary lessons following each unit. ' .: Defed1ve · Unit SCHEDULE FOR DETECTIVE UNIT ""' Day 1 Day 2 Day J Day 4 Day .5 Introduction• Sherlock Holmes Maxwell Smart Artemis Flint• Edgar Allan Poe History and "The Case of the Detective Rules Red-Headed Playa "A Man "Murders in the Solving mysteries League" Called Smart" Rue Morgue" "The Case of the Genuine Corpse" Solving mysteries "The Case of the from visual clues Flight from "The Case of the Chicago" Hidden Formula" Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 9 Day 10 RE~ D THE COMPLETE NOVEL COLUMBO Prepare the / prosecution's ,__ '\. case against '--v I Mary Jane Morton Writing mys ~eries Day 1.3 Day 14 Day 1.5 Day 11 Day 12 Solving cases w th Alex Ardley Game a CLUE and Zeke Zu ~kley Mystery Ele~ent Cards Touchdow:~ I . ­ ./ '\ / \ ~ / \ 7 First Day Detective Unit Materials 1. Dittoed copies of "A History of Detective Stories" 2. Tape recording ofa "The Case of the Genuine Corpse" "The Case of the Flight from Chicago" J. Tape recorder, headsets, junction box 4. Dittoed solution sheets for mystery oases Skills 1. Oral reading 2. Listening J. Drawing conclusions from facts Lesson . 1. To begin this unit, get acquainted with ,your group. Fill out the new enrollment cards. 2. Collect and correct homework. J. Introduction• Read the dittoed "A History of Detective Stories" orally with the group. Explain that in the next three weeks they will be reading about detectives and the crimes they solve. They will read one complete book about Columbo. Also they will be iraotioing solving mysteries along with the ·deteot ves. 4. Today there are two mystery oases to solve. These mysteries are on tape. Set up the tape recorder and hand out the solution sheets. 5· First, listen to the first mystery, "The Case of the Genuine Corpse." Fill in the squares on the solution sheet as you listen. Consider the following questions• a. Who could have put the bullets in the gun? b. Who could be the person whose story cannot be true? You may replay the mystery several times. Decide on a suspect. Then listen on the tape for an additional clue. When the solution sheets are filled in, ask the following questions• a. Which people can you most easily rule out as sus:peots? Why? b. Dur1ng what period of time could the bullets have been put into the gun? c. What suspects have accounted for their actions during that period? d. Why would it have been highly unlikely for Roger to have walked past Joe without being heard? {Think about what he did in his act.) When everyone has a suspect and evidence, go around the group and have each person tell who he thinks is guilty and give the reasons why. 6. Listen to the second mystery,"The Case of the Flight from Chicago." Then have students answer the questions on the solution sheet. 7. Correct the answers on the student's answer sheet. Those answers are on the aide's copy of the solution sheet. You may want the students to exchange papers to help you correct. 8. Pass out the homework for tomorrow. Evaluation Each one of the following items is worth one pointa a. Murderer] b. Motive The Case of the Genuine Corpse c. Evidence d. Motive 1 e. EvidenceJ The Case of the Flight from Chicago There are five points possible. Mystery Solution Sheet NAME_______________ PERIOD____GROUP____ "The Case of the Genuine Corpse" Where was he/she at each of the times Suspects Any Motive? below? Put a check in the blank if . someone else says he/she was there 7•4~ 8aOJ 8"05 8a08 8&11 8a12 Clyde Winnie Roger Lois Joe Ken Laura When were the bullets put into the gun? Which people can be eliminated as suspects? Murderer a Motive a Evidence a ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Ill+++++++++++++++++ "Flight from Chicago" 1. What clue lead St. Croix to believe Clark was in Chicago? 2. What two clues were found in the apartment? a. b. Murderera CLARK Motive a Evidence a Mystery Solution Sheet Answer Key "The Case of the Genuine Corpse" Where was he/she at each of the times Suspects Any Motive below? Put a check in the blank if someone else says he/she was there . 7 a45 8aOJ 8a0.5 8a08 Ball 8a12 ' 1-, Clyde /ll.!Y ./)'\/ /l .d" p_;,_ <'1 J ¥~ Winnie ~or ~ .r~ .A.Lfo ... Lo lJ .oo......d. ...;., w-c.....a.) o_d:;--::;:.. Roger ~~,;;(~ .L.Ao ... ~ t:-4 ~-->L- Lois ~ VT0 .LLo /IV' , 7 s~~ /)'l.P L ,.,, Joe ~t_ ~ IP-~_i 1\A-<>-noV Ken ~ I . ..A-'. ~ ~ 1 . .-'U] • Laura /J"\-C"' 311. A: uv When were the bullets put into the gun? J& ~ ~ ~ ~nz-ta~~~&~~~ · ­ Which people. can be eliminated as suspects? ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Yl~' ~<U.£..1_a_.. GU-d...o ~ i1u ~ , 16.-,v ~ Murderer~~ Motive• ~~ · ~ ~ Evidence a IlL~ J:t~ ~ ~~ ~ . A ~d i­ ¥ ~ ~ lhV ~ M<!M..~ . 'f42.. ~ 1'/MJ..C wa.-uu P~ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++o· . "Flight from Chicago" 1. What clue lead St. Croix to believe Clark was in Chicago? ~ rLR...w z;;£ _.d, (U-<1.A..) 6-: oo ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ / . _. J ~a~ c.t; ~ 1roo,V~ Ll~ ~~~-purr>\-/ 2. What two clues were found in the apartment? ~ ~· a.~~ a._~~ . b. 0k ~ ~ ~ ;6, -u_, ~ ~ Murdere~ a CLARK . Motive• fie _ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ryd- ~ ~ ~ .A.e.~ --6 a_,-f. ~ ~ ~ Evidence a ~ ~ · . ~~ ~ --VHI~_,-·~ · A HISTORY OF DETECTIVE STO~IES One out of every six books of fiction published in this country is a mystery. Some are gothics. Some are spy stories. Some involve the supernatural. But the most popular kind are the detective stories. Take a weapon Add a body Toss in equal portions of Who, What, When, Where, and Why Stir in How Combine with Investigator of choice Season with suspense and serve With this recipe, writers of mystery-detective stories cook up a lot of killings for fun and profit. Knives flash, guns bark, nooses tighten, and poisons pulverize. The popular detective story can now be en­ joyed on television, in books, on the .radio, and in mag­ azines that are devoted to the detective loving audience. There is no mystery about the reasons for the popularity. The real world is full of shifting moral values and uncertain justice, but the world of the mystery story is a law-abiding one where wrongdoers always get caught. For the reader, getting from the crime to the punishment is not only fun, it is morally satisfying. Another reason most of us love detective-mysteries is that human beings are puzzle-solving animals. The detective story is a kina of jig-saw puzzle in which the pieces are clues that the investigator and the reader try to fit together. Detectives were first used in England and France in the early 1800's. The first short story about a detective was in 1841. The author was an American, Edgar Allan Poe. The story was "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Poe wr.ote two more detective stories. The de­ tective in all three.was an amateur who solved crimes that the police could not solve. One of Dupin's earliest fans was President Abraham Lincoln who enjoyed reading the Poe I detective stories. The first detective novels that were full-length books were written in France and England in the 1860's. The most popular was The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It is still popular today. The first American detective novel was written by a woman in 1878. It was ~ Leavenworth Case by Anna Green. Since then, women have written many of the most popular detective stories.