MYSTERY UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION What drives people to

MYSTERY UNIT ESSENTIAL QUESTION What drives people to find an answer ? READ LIKE A Detective

LEARNING TARGETS Ø I can Infer by reasoning (RL 8. 1) Ø I can cite text based evidence that provides the strongest support(RL. 8. 1) READ LIKE A Detective Ø I can organize the reasons and evidence logically (W. 8. 1) Ø I can create writing pieces appropriate to a specific task, specific purpose, and specific audience (W. 8. 4)

A E R A E K I L D READ LIKE A Detective e t e D e v i t c

READ LIKE A Detective Look for clues READ LIKE A Detective Ø What words stick out at me? Ø Who is speaking in the text and why? Ø What seems most important?

READ LIKE A Detective Ask Questions READ LIKE A Detective Ø What questions do I have? Ø What do I think the author is trying to say? Ø Is there anything missing from the text?

READ LIKE A Detective Make Your case Ø Ø READ LIKE A Detective I think ______ because ______. The text says ______ , so ______. The main idea of the text is ______. Here are 3 reasons why.

READ LIKE A Detective Prove It READ LIKE A Detective Ø What can you guess about the story from its clues? Ø What details do you notice when you reread the text? Ø What seems the most important to share?

SLIP OR TRIP YOUR TURN Ø REMEMBER TO READ LIKE A DETECTIVE Ø SOLVE THE CRIME READ LIKE A Detective

SLIP OR TRIP READ LIKE A Detective

SLIP OR TRIP Scenario: At five-feet-six and a hundred and ten pounds, Queenie Volupides was a sight to behold and to clasp. When she tore out of the house after a tiff with her husband, Arthur, she went to the country club where there was a party going on READ LIKE A She left the club. Detective shortly before one in the morning and invited a few friends to follow her home and have one more drink. They got to the Volupides’s house about ten minutes after Queenie, who met them at the door and said, “Something terrible happened. Arthur slipped and fell on the stairs. He was coming down for another drink—he still had the glass in his hand—and I think he’s dead. Oh, my God—what shall I do? The autopsy conducted later concluded that Arthur had died from a wound on the head and confirmed that he’d been drunk.

SLIP OR TRIP 1. Do you think Queenie is telling the truth? READ LIKE A Detective

SLIP OR TRIP 2. Find all the evidence you can that supports your claim. READ LIKE A Detective

Your evidence should consist of …. Concrete observable information; personal testimony; written documents; and material objects and their condition or appearance. READ LIKE A Detective

SLIP OR TRIP 3. How does each piece of evidence support your claim that Queenie is or is not telling the truth. READ LIKE A Detective

SLIP OR Sr TRIP 4. Explain why your evidence supports your case. READ LIKE A Detective

“Slip or Trip” Report PROMPTS When we arrived… What we found READ LIKE A What Queenie said Detective What the autopsy found Whether the evidence supports what Queenie said Our conclusion and/or recommendation Explanation of evidence supporting our conclusion and recommendation