Pathetic fallacy is giving human emotions to inanimate things, usually the environment.

Foreshadowing means a warning of a future event.

Analysing atmosphere and character in ‘The Speckled Band’

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Making predictions about Sherlock Holmes

Analysing Helen Stoner’s presentation in ‘The Speckled Band’

Making predictions about ‘The Speckled Band’ mystery

Investigating Julia’s death in ‘The Speckled Band’

Analysing Dr. Roylott in ‘The Speckled Band’

Writing an argument about Dr. Roylott from ‘The Speckled Band’

Creating newspaper headlines and subheadings

Writing the opening of an article on ‘The Speckled Band’ case

‘The Speckled Band’ case: writing a newspaper article body

'The Speckled Band' case: concluding newspaper articles

Using rhetorical devices in newspaper articles

Reading about Stoke Moran and analysing atmosphere in ‘The Speckled Band’

Reading and summarising the conclusion of ‘The Speckled Band’ mystery

Planning a newspaper article about the solved  case of ‘The Speckled Band’

Writing your own newspaper article about Sherlock Holmes

Reading 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'

Solving 'The Boscombe Valley Mystery'

Comparing the victims in ‘The Speckled Band’ and ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’

Analysing John Turner from ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’

Comparing ‘The Speckled Band’ and ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’

‘The Speckled Band’ and ‘The Boscombe Valley Mystery’: a written comparison

in 'Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories', pupils practise using analytical writing sentence structures, to formulate their arguments. In 'Myths and Legends Re-Told', pupils develop these skills further, applying them to a range of pre- 20th Century texts. 

in 'When the Sky Falls' pupils read fiction texts for fluency and comprehension. In 'Sherlock Holmes: Short Stories' pupils start to analyse the language choices of an author.

In this unit, pupils read and explore two famous Sherlock Holmes stories. They start by reading and analysing 'The Speckled Band' before using it as inspiration to write a newspaper article. They then read and analyse 'The Boscombe Valley Murder' before writing a comparison of the two stories.

Sherlock Holmes: short stories

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

giving human emotions to inanimate things, usually the environment.

comparing two things using the words like or as 

’I sprang from my bed and rushed into the corridor.’

'...there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman.'

Which word best describes the night Julia died in 'The Speckled Band'? 

In 'The Speckled Band', how is Helen presented when she hears her sister’s screams?

it helps us come up with ambitious vocabulary to use

it helps us conduct deep single word analysis

Why use quote explosions before analytical writing?

Why use conjunctions in analytical writing?

to help her solve the mystery of how her sister died

to catch up with him as they were good friends

In 'The Speckled Band', why had Helen Stoner gone to visit Sherlock Holmes?

She was involved in a traffic accident on the way there

In 'The Speckled Band', why is Helen shivering when she comes to Holmes?

Using ambitious vocabulary in a paragraph

In 'The Speckled Band', what is Helen Stoner likened to when she meets Holmes?

Why is Julia Stoner's death a mystery in 'The Speckled Band'?

In 'The Speckled Band', what did Julia cry out as she died?

Analysing atmosphere and character in ‘The Speckled Band’

Lesson outcome

Content guidance