Ms. Nicholson / Ms. Sullivan
“Lamb
to the Slaughter”
AUTHOR
STUDY
ROALD
DAHL
http://www.roalddahlfans.com/mydahlbio.php
Using the site above, answer
the following questions.
1.
What is the date of Roald Dahl’s
birth?
2.
Where was he born?
3.
What country did his parents
migrate from?
4.
What happened to his father and his
sister during Dahl’s early childhood?
5.
Why did his mother remove him from
the Llandoff school and send him to St. Peter’s School?
6.
What was life like for Roald at
St. Peter’s
7.
At
8.
What books have you read by Roald
Dahl?
9.
How do you think his school
experiences affected his ideas of authority figures?
10.
Who was the authority figure in
“Lamb to the Slaughter?” How was
he undermined?
FORENSICS
GO
TO
http://www.ct.gov/dps/cwp/view.asp?a=2155&Q=296214&dpsNav=|
I.
Read entire section on TRACE EVIDENCE
1.
What are
the most common forms of trace evidence?
2.
As a
detective, how will you use this information?
3.
Read case
study #1. Apply what you have read
to the story.
II.
Go back and go to the section on Mitochondrial
DNA. Read paragraph three.
Why is human hair important at a crime scene?
Scroll down. On the top of the picture of the staff,
there is a PowerPoint presentation. Open
it and answer the following questions.
1.
Why is
hair good evidence?
2.
What are
the steps of analysis?
3.
How are
hairs collected?
4.
What can
the results tell you?
5.
When
would you use mitochondrial DNA?
6.
How will
you use hair in your crime scene investigation?
III.
Go to http://www.ct.gov/dps/cwp/view.asp?a=2155&Q=294432&dpsNAV_GID=1671&dpsNav
Click
on Crime
Scene Reconstruction.
1.
What are examples of different
types of reconstruction?
2.
How is a hypothesis (a theory)
formed?
3.
Go back.
It is optional to read Evidence Received.
Other
Helpful Links
http://www.feinc.net/cs-inv-p.htm
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/csi/handbook/index.php?section=evidence
Search
Terms
Crime
scene investigation
Forensics
On
Reserve at the Library
Crime Scene: the
Ultimate Guide to Forensic Science/Richard Platt
Every Contact
Leaves a Trace/Connie
Fletcher
Forensic
Detective/Robert Mann, Ph.D
Teasing Secrets
from the Dead/Emily Craig,
Ph.D
When Objects
Talk/Mark Friedlander, Ph.D
“Lamb to the Slaughter”
Part
2
PROJECT
After
reading “Lamb to the Slaughter,” and researching Roald Dahl and Crime Scene
Forensics, select 1 of the 3 projects as your assessment for this cycle.
You may work individually, with a partner, or in a group of 3.
PROJECT
1 – MYSTERY STORY
Objective:
Students
will understand how to critically evaluate a story and develop it into a modern
day mystery story using forensics.
Write
a 2-3 page mystery story to be solved by the class.
Criteria:
·
Create a storyboard (see hand-out enclosed.)
·
Recreate the murder mystery, “Lamb
to the Slaughter” using modern day forensics.
·
Use the same characters, but change the ending of the story.
·
Act out the mystery for the class.
PROJECT
2 – NEWS BROADCAST
Objective:
Students
will understand how to critically evaluate a story and develop it into a modern
day newscast using modern forensics based on the story “Lamb
to the Slaughter.”
Criteria:
·
Create a storyboard for the news broadcast.
·
Write a 2-3 page script for the news broadcast.
·
You must have an anchor person, an on-the-site reporter, and two or three
characters from the story to interview. You
may ask your classmates to fill the character parts.
Use the same characters, but change the ending.
·
Present the news broadcast to the class.
PROJECT
3
– RAP
OBJECTIVE:
Students will understand how to critically evaluate a story and develop it into
a modern day rap, using forensics.
Criteria:
·
Create a storyboard (see hand-out.)
·
Write a 2-3 page rap using modern forensics.
·
Write a modern day rap using rhyme and rhythm (see hand-out.)
·
Select appropriate music to accompany this rap
·
You must include the use of modern forensics.
·
Keep the same characters, but create a new ending of the story.
·
Present this rap to the class.