Sherlock Holmes

Crime and Mystery Stories

Victorian Era

ScienceDiscoveryTechnologyThinking/Deduction

The Characters

Sherlock Holmes

• Stoic• Deductions• Puzzles• Hobbies/Skills• A Scandal in Bohemia, Hound

of the Baskervilles, Falls of the Reichenbach

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im4TYITM0VE

The Characters

Dr. John Watson- Veteran, Writer/Narrator, Roommate, Sidekick, Engaged

The CharactersJames Moriarty

• Nemesis• Genius• Criminal• Deduction

Irene Adler

• Worthy Opponent• “The Woman”• Smart• Resourceful

Adaptations

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock

House M.D

Story Map

Vocabulary• In Medias Res- ‘in the middle of things’

• Hook- something interesting that grabs your attention in the beginning

• Characterization- describing a character in detail– INDIRECT: describing actions or words without telling you

their personality exactly – DIRECT: telling you exactly what

that person is like

Vocabulary• Locked-Room Mystery= a story where the characters are

trapped with one another with no means of escape, and one of them has committed the crime. The others have to figure out who it is (ex. Mafia, or Murder on the Orient Express)

• Moment of Revelation- when the investigator either realizes or reveals who the criminal is

Vocabulary

• Red Herring = a false set of clues

• Deduction = looking at all the details and forming a big picture

• Twist = unexpected information that changes the way we view someone or something

• • Femme Fatale = a ‘dangerous woman’

that distracts or double-crosses the investigator