The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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ELA 20 – Starting Out: Beginning and Becoming
Ms. MacDonald – updated September 2012
During Reading, Please keep track of possible topics to research and subsequently speak about to the class. Indicate the
topic, page number (so you can refer back later) and any questions and/or ideas that you may want to explore.
Topic:
Page Number(s):
Comments, questions, ideas for research:
ELA 20 – Starting Out: Beginning and Becoming
Ms. MacDonald – updated September 2012
Possible research / speech topics:
Section 1
1. Apollo Space Mission (p. 2)
2. Hound of the Baskervilles (p. 5)
3. Milky Way (p. 9)
4. Stars and the expanding Universe (p. 10)
5. Big Bang (p. 10)
6. Prime Numbers (p. 11)
7. Swiss army knife (p. 13)
8. Slander (p. 14)
9. Metaphors / Similes (p. 15, 17)
10. St. Christopher (p. 16)
11. Minesweeper (p. 21)
12. Sherlock Holmes (p. 25)
13. Aneurism / heart attacks (p. 27)
14. Red herring (p. 31)
15. Black hole (p. 32)
Section 2
16. Marzipan (p. 41)
17. Claustrophobia (p. 50)
18. Idioms (p. 48, 192)
19. Heart of Darkness (p. 52)
20. Jack the Ripper (p. 52)
21. The Monty Hall Problem (p. 62)
22. Probability (p. 63)
23. Intuition (p. 63)
24. The third degree (p. 66)
25. Clouds (p. 68)
26. Close Encounters of the third kind (p. 69)
27. Sherlock Holmes and red herrings (p. 72)
Section 4
39. Saccades (how the mind works) (p. 116-117)
40. Chains of reasoning (p. 117)
41. Homunculus (p. 118)
42. Constellations (Orion) (p. 125)
43. Red Dwarfs (p. 126)
44. Chocolate (caffeine, theobromine) (p. 133)
45. Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (p. 140)
Section 5
46. Conway’s soldiers (p. 146)
47. British pounds / ‘quid’ (p. 151)
48. Maps (p. 156)
49. Time vs. Space (p. 156)
50. Speed of light (p. 157)
51. Quadratic equations (p. 163)
52. God / life on earth and creation (p. 164)
53. Evolution and the three conditions needs for life to
occur (replication, mutation, heritability) (p. 164165)
54. Underground (p. 172)
55. Malaysia (p. 177-178)
56. Orangutan (p. 178)
57. Resonant frequencies (p. 178)
Section 6:
58. Tessellation (p. 203)
59. Nuclear Power (p. 206)
ELA 20 – Starting Out: Beginning and Becoming
Ms. MacDonald – updated September 2012
28. Chess (p. 73)
Section 3
29. Memory (p. 76-77)
30. Epilepsy (p. 78)
31. Sulfur chimneys (p. 79-80)
32. Rhetoric (p. 81)
33. Red-faced black spider monkey; orangutan; sea
lions; (p. 86)
34. Case of the Cottingley Fairies (p. 88)
35. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (p. 88)
36. Occam’s razor (p. 90)
37. Chaos Theory (p. 96)
38. Population Changes (p. 101-102)
60. Blue Planet videos (p. 210)
61. Perspective (p. 211)
62. The cost of discipleship (p. 212)
63. Cubes of cardinal numbers (p. 213)
64. The 11th Hour – game (p. 213
65. A-level examinations
ELA 20 – Starting Out: Beginning and Becoming
Ms. MacDonald – updated September 2012