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FAST FACTS ABOUT THIS MYSTERY GENRE LIBRARY LESSON:
- Recommended for: Grades 6-12
- Formats: PPT, Google Slides, and PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
- Lesson duration: 25-30 minute whole-group discussion + 23-minute scrolling slideshow (timed at 45 seconds for each of the 31 slides in Part II)
HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL GET:
- 55 PPT slides + Google™ Slides
- Recommended Reads bookmarks (2 pages, editable)
PART I INCLUDES:
- review of genre (what is genre)
- students’ preliminary thoughts on the mystery genre
- characteristics of the mystery genre
- why we should read mystery genre books (strengthen reasoning and observation skills)
- mystery commonly mixes with other genres – e.g., thriller, historical fiction, adventure, etc.
- importance of motive
- amateur vs. professional detectives
- hook
- clue
- red herring
- victim
- villain / culprit
- accomplice
- misdirection
- deductive reasoning
- Latin root – culpa
- setting and niche setting
- list of mystery subgenres
- subgenre focus – detective mystereies – characteristics and examples
- subgenre focus – puzzle mysteries – characteristics and examples
- subgenre focus – locked room (or escape room) mysteries – characteristics and examples
- two slides for checkout procedures and reminders
PART II INCLUDES:
This is a scrolling slideshow. If you time the Part II slides at 45 seconds each, the mystery genre slideshow will 23 minutes in length.
- 5 tips for writing mystery stories and novels
- Word of the Week: motive and red herring
- 3 would you rathers
- 4 trivia questions + answers
- 5 mystery genre YA and middle school book quotations
- Daily and weekly schedule
- Announcements
- Reminders
- This week’s birthdays
- every slide contains gorgeous secondary-appropriate clipart!
MYSTERY LITERATURE AND DETECTIVES MENTIONED:
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- Sherlock Holmes mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by Edgar Allan Poe
- Miss Marple
- Nancy Drew
- The Hardy Boys
- Encyclopedia Brown
- Sammy Keyes
- Cam Jansen
- multiple YA and middle school titles mentioned with the three mystery fiction subgenre focuses (detective mystery, puzzle mystery, locked room mystery)
RECOMMENDED READS BOOKLISTS
- two bookmarks, editable in PPT and PDF
- all titles are mystery genre books
- One bookmark is Grades 6-8, and the other is Grades 9-12.
- All titles are recommended on Titlewave for Grades 6-8 and 9-12.
- Both bookmarks include these subcategories: detective mystery, puzzle mystery, locked room mystery, and other mysteries
- All titles received positive reviews from professional library journals. Many received starred reviews.
MORE GENRE LESSONS FOR SECONDARY LIBRARIES
- Horror Genre Library Lesson (Grades 7+)
- Historical Fiction Genre Library Lesson (Grades 6+)
- Realistic Fiction Library Lesson (Grades 6+)
- What’s Your Genre Personality? Quiz (Grades 6+)
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