Name: Creative Writing (11-14 year olds) - Murder Mystery (copy)
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KS3 Murder Mystery is a 5-week course beginning this week&nbsp;<img height="16" width="16" alt="🕵️‍♀️" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tf2/1.5/16/1f575_200d_2640.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">&nbsp;<img height="16" width="16" alt="🔍" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t1a/1.5/16/1f50d.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"> The course will include: <img height="16" width="16" alt="📚" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta2/1.5/16/1f4da.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">An introduction to the murder mystery genre, key conventions and sub-genres including crime and detective fiction <img height="16" width="16" alt="📚" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta2/1.5/16/1f4da.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">&nbsp;A consideration of why the genre is so popular from Raymond Chandler &amp; film noir to more modern crime fiction <img height="16" width="16" alt="📚" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta2/1.5/16/1f4da.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Analysis of classic texts and detectives such as Arthur Conan Doyle&rsquo;s Sherlock and Edgar Allen Poe&rsquo;s Dupin. <img height="16" width="16" alt="📚" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta2/1.5/16/1f4da.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">&nbsp;Creative writing focusing on how to create interesting characters including detectives, sidekicks, criminals and villains <img height="16" width="16" alt="📚" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta2/1.5/16/1f4da.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">How to create an effective murder mystery mini-saga and build tension in your writing by gradually revealing clues and using red herrings to fool your reader <img height="16" width="16" alt="📚" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta2/1.5/16/1f4da.png" fr-original-style="" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; user-select: none; max-width: 100%; position: relative; box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">&nbsp;Lots of opportunities to hone your own detective skills including puzzles throughout and a &lsquo;whodunnit&rsquo; activity at the end of the course.

KS3 Murder Mystery is a 5-week course beginning this week


The course will include:

An introduction to the murder mystery genre, key conventions and sub-genres including crime and detective fiction

A consideration of why the genre is so popular from Raymond Chandler & film noir to more modern crime fiction

Analysis of classic texts and detectives such as Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock and Edgar Allen Poe’s Dupin.

Creative writing focusing on how to create interesting characters including detectives, sidekicks, criminals and villains

How to create an effective murder mystery mini-saga and build tension in your writing by gradually revealing clues and using red herrings to fool your reader

Lots of opportunities to hone your own detective skills including puzzles throughout and a ‘whodunnit’ activity at the end of the course.

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Murder Mystery for KS3 is a Creative Writing course for 11-14 year olds. 

During the 5 weeks, students will become familiar with detectives, criminals and villains, from Enola Holmes to Edgar Allen Poe’s Dupin. They will learn how to build suspense in their writing, create red herrings for the reader and will be challenged to use their own detective skills in an end of unit 'whodunnit'. 

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Creative Writing (11-14 year olds) - Murder Mystery (copy)

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Creative Writing (11-14 year olds) - Murder Mystery

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Creative Writing (11-14 year olds) - Murder Mystery (copy)

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