DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 253
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 5
What do you think will be in these notes? Why are they uncool? (accept logical predictions)
Who do you think these people are? (lead them to understanding that most of these are
bullies who are too embarrassed to show their faces in the light)
Reading (HOTS)
Now read the notes with the class and try to decide together who wrote each note.
(accept any logical answers and discuss the answers)
Say:
Read the notes and match each note to the person who you think wrote it.
Then we’ll look at each note and see what it says.
Now let’s read the notes.
Who is the first note to? (Maya)
Who do you think wrote it? (accept any logical answer )
What does she say? (that she wishes she were as good as Maya in math)
Does she apologize? (yes she does)
Who is the second note to? (Josh)
Who do you think wrote it? (accept any logical answer)
What does he say to Josh? (that his brother makes fun of him all the time, so he thought it
was okay to do the same thing to Josh)
Does he apologize / say he’s sorry? (yes, he does)
Who is the third note to? (Ann)
Who wrote it? (accept any logical answer)
What does he say to Ann? (that he was mad at his coach and he took it out on Ann)
Doe he apologize? (yes, in a way)
Who is the fourth note to? (everyone)
How is this note different? (it’s a cool note, not an uncool note and it is in Sparkey’s code)
What does this note say? (have the students decipher the code – the answer is “Cool! Make
new friends and keep the old; one is silver, the other is gold.’)
Who wrote this note? (Robert)
What do you think this note means? (accept logical answers)
After Reading (HOTS)
Ask:
Do you think these notes will make the people who receive them feel better? (accept logical
reasoning)
2. Let’s Write! (page 200)
Say:
You are going to write a cool note.
You are to write the cool note to someone in
your class.
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Curriculum:
P: students will produce a short piece
of coherent writing
