 Mystery: September 21, 2005 Issue [#626] |
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This week: Edited by: InkyShadows  
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Something mysterious is lurking out there ... just beyond the edges of your peripheral vision. What is it? Did that shadow move? Is that cigarette smoke I smell? Whose footsteps are following me everywhere I go? Eyes dart every which way, trying to catch a glimpse of the danger that lurks ... out there.
Such are the panicked feelings and thoughts of the victim in a mystery story...
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You know, I have started off this school year teaching my eighth grade students about measurement since they seem to have had a very hard time with it on their last standardized test. They not only have a hard time shifting metric measures back and forth but also find converting between measures in the US Customary scale a horrific nightmare. And, after seeing that many of my little cherubs don't even know what the little lines on a ruler between one inch and two mean -- other than possibly the half-inch marking -- or that there are three teaspoons in one tablespoon, I have decided that measurement would make a good theme to carry through a mystery plot for young adults.
Nero Blanc and others have successfully created mysteries about crossword puzzles, and Diane Mott Davidson et al have worked wonders brewing up mysteries around the culinary arts, so why not create a mystery that involves measurement clues of various kinds? Not only would it be entertaining, but it may even get one or two more kids curious about the inner workings of our two measurement systems -- metric and US Customary.
The novel or story could be set in a place that is quite familiar to the targeted young adult age group...maybe a place like a middle/high school or a recreation facility in their hometown. The use of measurement could open the young protagonist's eyes to the necessity to learn about such things as measurement, and maybe it could include discussions and arguments between multiple protagonists about the right way to solve the measurement puzzles that they find as clues. If the novel or story takes the teens to a place with which they are unfamiliar, the measurements could be clues to how they can find their way back to their own turf again.
Does anyone else think this could work or have any other brainstorm ideas about the use of measurement in a mystery for young adults? Or, am I totally barking up the wrong tree?
I look forward to reading your thoughts and ideas on this topic!
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I know that I promised a contest for this newsletter, but with the start of the new school year, I haven't had time to create the item for it in my folder. I do have it all outlined on paper, and I promise to have it listed here in my next issue of the Mystery Newsletter. So, I apologize for not having it here now, but I guarantee that it will be here next time we meet.
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