![]() After becoming involved with both authors’ biographies, students may become aware of the problems that beset the authors in their lifetime. ![]() These exercises will stress grade level skills. ![]() Vocabulary presentation and a directed reading structure will be presented for expanding vocabulary, word knowledge, and comprehension. Comprehension questions will be asked to determine students understanding of units work. Oral and written discussion will focus on both authors’ lives and problems. The unit will begin with a condensed biography of each author: Poe’s indebtedness, alcoholism and mental illness, and Holmes’s inference to his use of the drug cocaine. Therefore, this unit will enable my students to read, to know, and to enjoy detective fiction by being exposed to the work of Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]() Eighth grade remedial students are capable of enjoying and understanding the classics. ![]()
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