Warm-Up “Object Lesson”

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Warm-Up Making Predictions in a Mystery: “Object Lesson”

Words to Know

Write the letter of the definition next to the matching word as you work through the lesson. You may also use the glossary to help you.

examine A. a story about a problem that needs to be solved

detectB. a hint a writer places in a work

C. to take a close look at somethingmystery

foreshadowing D. a guess made about what will happen

prediction E. to discover a fact about something

Lesson Goals

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Read from “Object Lesson” by Ellery Queen.

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Warm-Up Making Predictions in a Mystery: “Object Lesson”

Famous Literary Detectives

A detective is a person who solves . Detectives must detect

and figure out what they mean.

Famous detectives in literature include:

• Ellery Queen

• Sherlock Holmes

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• Encyclopedia Brown


Making Predictions in a Mystery: “Object Lesson”

Elements of a Mystery

Many mysteries contain common elements.

• Alibi – an attempt to prove

• Clue – a piece of

• Evidence – of a crime or of who committed a crime

• Red herring – a clue

• – someone thought to be guilty of a crime

• – someone who has information about a crime

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The Mystery Genre

A is a fictional work whose plot describes a crime or a secret and

how it is solved or revealed.

• Focuses on a or a problem

• Introduces clues throughout

• Features characters who clues and

• Is usually solved at the end

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Making Predictions

A prediction is a a reader makes about something that will happen in a text.

What you knowFinding

Asking Identifying

Making

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Ellery Queen, a.k.a. Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905–1971)

• Is a pseudonym, or “ ”

• Was created by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee

• Was originally entered in a contest

• Is featured in more than novels, as well as ,

movies and TV shows, and a magazine

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Using Details to Make Predictions

In the passage below, underline the line that is used to predict that Mr. Queen may be solving a mystery at the school.

Confirming Predictions as You Read

prediction

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the prediction the prediction

the evidence

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Ellery hurried down West 92nd Street toward the main entrance of Henry Hudson High School

stealing guilty glances at his watch. Miss Carpenter had been crisply specific about place,

date, and time: her homeroom, 109; Friday morning, April 22nd; first period (“Bell at 8:40,

Mr. Queen”). Miss Carpenter, who had come to him with an unusual request, had struck him

as the sort of dedicated young person who would not take kindly to a hitch in her crusade.

Ellery broke into an undignified lope.

–“Object Lesson,” Ellery Queen



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Identifying Foreshadowing

Underline the part of text that suggests foreshadowing in the passage below.

“Suppose we hear testimony from the class.” Ellery surveyed them, and there was a ripple of

tittering. Suddenly he pointed to a little lipsticked girl with an Italian haircut. “Would you

like to tell us what happened this morning?”

“I don’t know anything about the money!”

“Chicken.” A boy’s jeering voice.

“The boy who said that.” Ellery kept his tone friendly. It was one of the three he had spotted, the

husky blond one. “What’s your name, son?”

–“Object Lesson,”Ellery Queen

Recognizing Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing is a in the text about what will happen in a story

it occurs.

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“Did you hear Amy Winowski?” Jordan asked. “She sounded amazing!”

“Yeah, I wish I had talent like that,” Benjamin said. “Then I’d be going places.”

“My daughter Amy is going to be a successful singer when she grows up,” Mrs. Winowski said.



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Using Foreshadowing to Make Predictions

Foreshadowing can help you make predictions about what might happen in the story.

• details.

• Think of how details affect the .

• Think of how details affect the .

• Consider how details affect you as the .

Using Foreshadowing to Make Predictions

In the passage below, underline the part of text that foreshadows the idea that Ellery Queen will be able to find the culprit because the thief was still in the room.

“At the time you placed Mrs. Morell’s dollar among the others in the original envelope, was

everybody here?”

“Yes. The door opened and closed only once after that — when Mrs. Morell left. I was facing the

door the whole time.”

“Could Mrs. Morell, as a practical joke, have made the switch?”

“She wasn’t anywhere near my desk after I laid the envelope on it.”

–“Object Lesson,” Ellery Queen

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Summary

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Lesson Question Why do you need to be especially clever when reading a mystery?

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