Mystery Unit: The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base

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The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery

This unit for The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base was developed with gifted students in mind. The puzzles presented are challenging, engaging, and varied. Along with visual puzzles, there is plentiful word play, including puns, idioms, and ambiguity of language which requires students to make leaps of inference and hone deductive reasoning skills.

The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery

This unit for The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base was developed with gifted students in mind. The puzzles presented are challenging, engaging, and varied. Along with visual puzzles, there is plentiful word play, including puns, idioms, and ambiguity of language which requires students to make leaps of inference and hone deductive reasoning skills.

Included in this resource, you will find:

A detailed unit plan
Student detective pages, including clue notes for each illustration
Prediction and reflection journal pages, requiring students to use inferencing, deductive reasoning, and justifications for answers
Concept attainment pages to help students understand the concepts of puns and idioms
At-a-Glance teacher keys to help you guide students in their puzzling
Hint Cards to help prompt students if they should struggle on any given puzzle
Code keys to help decipher hidden messages
A Critical Thinking Rubric to assess student problem-solving processes