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Pre-writing activities in class
  • Talk about the terms detective and witness
    and what it means to be a detective or a witness.
  • Make a mindmap on the blackboard with important
    issues a detective has to sort out.
  • Focus on how to ask questions in English.
  • Write down examples of ways of asking questions.
  • Have a brainstorm about adjectives to be used in
    connection with murders and murderers.
  • Present the aims of the process.
  • Agree upon the criteria for evaluation.

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The Murder MysteryThe progression in the writing
process
  • Introduction of the game.
  • Random sorting of the pupils into detectives
    and witnesses.
  • Play the game.
  • Make sure the detectives take down notes when
    they interview the witnesses.
  • Have pupils re-tell their story to the teacher
  • Homework re-tell the story to someone in your
    family
  • Write down the story based on the key words by
    hand the two pupils (detectivewitness) are
    working closely together to include all the
    details.
  • Reveal how the witnesses were able to answer.
  • Write the first draft of the story using a
    computer and the program Word.
  • Use the spell check to correct possible mistakes.

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  • The pupils get feedback from the teacher on the
    use of adjectives and possibly from another pupil
    on the details of the story
  • The teacher focuses on the use of adjectives.
  • The pupils ask each other questions to clarify
    i.e. murder weapon, time of day, the murderer
    etc.
  • Write the final draft in Word.
  • Retell the story to another pupil in class (one
    to one interaction of a familiar text). The
    written text can be used as notes.
  • 2 and 2 of the pairs work together first to read
    the stories to one another. Then the pairs
    decide who has got the best story and finally
    they make a dramatisation to present to the rest
    of the class.
  • Written and oral evaluation.
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