Unit 2 - Chasse aux indices

There are always mysteries to be solved. In this unit, students learn how to think like a detective, how to find clues (even in an email message) and how to listen to suspects' statements to discover who is guilty. For the Final Task, students write a mystery about a theft. They present their mystery in the form of a four-person skit.

• For more information on a virtual treasure hunt in Egypt - "The Mystery of Sekhmet": http://www.ktt.fr/chasse/
• For a bank of mysteries (written by young people) to be solved: http://www.thecase.com/kids/
  http://jesweb.free.fr/inedit/enigmes/enigmes.html
• For more information on mysteries written by Grade 8 students in the United States: http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/schools/dakota/mystery/contents.html
• For more information on mystery writing (the history, how to write a mystery, detective games, etc.): http://library.thinkquest.org/J002344/

Models of the Final Task

Level 1 - Text

Level 2 - Image

Level 3 - Image

Level 4 - Image