DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 151
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 3
Say and ask:
Look at the whole comic strip (two pages):
- What are Tom and Kate looking at? (the picture MoCa sent them)
- Where are Tom and Kate? (in front of Miss Bates’s house)
- What do you see in front of the house? (a van)
- Whose van do you think it is? (Accept all logical answers.)
- Have we seen any vans before? (Yes, Frank’s van.)
- Do you think this is important? Why? (Allow logical guesses.)
- HOTS: What do you think this van is doing here? (Accept all logical answers.)
- Where does Miss Bates take them when they walk into the house (to the living room)
- What do you see in the room? (Have students say different items.)
- Is there anything odd about this room? (Have students guess. The empty frames?)
Now scan the comic script
- Find the word ‘simple’. What is simple according to the sentence? (Frame four - the
answer)
- What answer do you think is simple? (to the previous question: Why did your father
offer his collection to the museum?)
- Find the word ‘terrible’. What was terrible? (Frame five; it was terrible when the men
from the museum came to take the collection away.)
- Find the word ‘impossible’. What is impossible according to the sentence? (Frame 7 – it’s
impossible to see the paintings because they were stolen.)
Let’s read and find out.
Reading
Have the students read the comic strip in small chunks.
Ask:
Frame 1
Who is in the picture on the van? (the man Mike drew)
What’s this man’s name? (Frank)
What does Frank do? (He builds frames.)
Frame 2
Why do the Kate and Tom go to Miss Bates’s house? (to ask her a few questions)
Frames 3-5
According to Miss Bates, why did her father give his art collection to the museum? (He loved
Lakeview very much.)
How did Miss Bates feel about losing the collection to the museum? (She was sad.)
How does she describe the day the collection was taken to the museum? (a terrible day)
When does Miss Bates say she visits the paintings? (every day)
Why do you think Miss Bates says she saw the painting ‘this morning’? (Accept all logical
answers.)
Frame 6
How does Miss Bates explain what she meant? (She says her memory isn’t what it was; she
‘thought’ she saw them.)
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