Teacher Resource 7 7th Grade from Selected Anthologies, compiled by Susan Casler, LA Dept. Chair Crofton Middle, 7/02
USING THESE RESOURCES: I HAVE LISTED EACH ANTHOLOGY ONLY ONCE AND THEN JUST CONTINUED WITH THE
PAGE NUMBERS. IF THE PIECE APPEARS IN MORE THAN ONE ANTHOLOGY, I LIST THE SECOND ANTHOLOGY IN THE
SAME BLOCK WITH THE FIRST ANTHOLOGY. THEN THE LIST CONTINUES WITH PIECES FROM THE FIRST
ANTHOLOGY. THIS IS A DRAFT, AND I INTEND TO ADD TO IT OR CHANGE IT. IF YOU WANT TO CONTACT ME: email
me at susancasler@hotmail.com
Resources for 7th Grade Mystery Unit from Selected Anthologies
TITLE
The Whistling Boy
Life Doesn’t Frighten
Me
A Doe Named Dare
AUTHOR
Ruth Ainsworth
Maya Angelou
PAGE/ANTHOLOGY
74
Beginnings
84
DESCRIPTION
Ghost story
Poem re: fear
Patricia Edwards Clyne
406
Narrative re: mysterious disappearance of lost colony of
Sir Walter Scott, Roanoke Island, NC
The Disappearing Man
Isaac Asimov
The Lochness Monster:
Fact or Fiction?
The Dinner Party
Those Mysterious
UFO’s
The Adventure of the
Speckled Band
Spectral Beast in the
Night
In the Fog
Martin Walsh
3 Journeys:
Arrivals
74
Mona Gardner
David Knight
80
204
Narrative account that explores the question: Does
the mysterious creature exist?
Surprise ending; snake under table
Non-fiction
Lewis K. Parker
(playwright)
Arthur Tofte
313
Adaptation of A. C. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes’ story
in play format
Champ and Andy tussle with a mysterious creature
Milton Geiger
329
Play—Doctor taken at gunpoint to tend a wounded
man
A Secret for Two
Quentin Reynolds
The Dying Detective
Arthur Conan Doyle
adapt.
Maxwell Nurnberg
The Mystery and the
Wonder of Words
After Twenty Years
O. Henry
45 Prentice Hall
Literature – Bronze
233
An old milkman loses his old delivery horse.
Surprise ending.
Play format
579
Essay on the origin and development of language.
93 Elements of
Literature 1st
Course
Old buddies meet and a secret is revealed. Usual
format of surprise ending.
Other mystery anthologies available at Crofton Middle School 2002-2203 school year:
Reader As Detective, Levels A, B, I, II
Collected Poems and Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Collection of O. Henry short stories (for surprise ending)
Other resources:
Encyclopedia Brown mysteries
Mysterious Circumstances published by Perfection Learning
Name of novel: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle adapted version published by Globe Books, 1992 Created by: Susan Casler, July
2002
NATT(ms) MTA Satellite Program, 2002 Anne Arundel County Public Schools
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