The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Write your own Holmes mystery

Using what you have learned about characteristics of a Sherlock Holmes mystery, write your own. As a reminder, include some of the following:

a. Retelling of an action sequence
b. Holmes using deductive reasoning
c. Holmes taking justice into his own hands
d. Character from a foreign land with a dark past
e. Holmes unable to solve the case
f. Exotic murder weapon
g. Young woman about to be married
h. Grotesque details
i. Crime...
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