This is a thread for any lesson material for J.L. Haas (2015 edition) Middle School English 3 Lesson 8: Follow the Clues.  Please share your contributions here. Be sure to explain exactly what you are posting and please do not post multi-level materials in this thread. Also, any review lessons or materials should be posted in the review section for this grade. If you can't find what you're looking for here, be sure to check the previous edition of the book.  Best of luck in your lesson planning!

Does anybody have anything for listen and talk 1?  I normally make all of my own materials, but this book has been difficult.  And I have no idea at all for this section. 

Have you heard about ...
Yes, i read it in the newspaper. 

I don't teach it until Monday, but have been trying to brainstorm for the past few days, with no luck.  Even a bomb game is difficult for this, without making it really simple fill in the blanks.  Any ideas would be appreciated, otherwise I'm probably just going to make worksheets.  Ha.

Also, feel free to post your own materials. I'm it would help some people 

I'm stumped on this too. "I'm sure" is the only thing I can sort of work with.
How about a game of Mafia? Make sure the students say "I'm sure he did it!" The other sections are about detectives so goes along the lines.

http://www.wikihow.com/Play-Mafia

But really screw this section, I'm doing a bomb game and being lazy.

Here is my .ppt for "Follow the Clues".
The target is aimed at lower/intermediate level, but the difficulty can easily be ramped up.
This lesson works best arranging class into small groups, and giving each group a whiteboard (or paper).

Warm up: Word-wall activity: basically 2 minutes to find as many anagrams of the chapter's
                title (Follow the Clues) as possible.

Vocabulary 1 ("Have you heard that...?" "Yes, I heard it on the TV") listing media activity
                    and bookwork p. 138.

Vocabulary 2 ("I think that..." "I'm sure that..." etc) Arrange words by levels of certainty.
                    Bookwork p. 139 and Stephansalz's excellent "Certainty
                    game" which I spiffed up to match my .ppt theme.


Lesson worked well for my classes. High involvement, and a pretty competitive lesson.
Instructions are in the slide notes!
 Cheers!

Here is my powerpoint for lesson 8. For some of my classes I only have one day to teach lesson 8 while others I have 2-3. So I don't go crazy making a bunch of different PPTs I put everything on one PPT so I can just hide what I don't have time for.
This PPT has content for pg.138-139 and some different practice activities. If you have access to newspapers there is an ad writing idea. I haven't gotten to this lesson with my classes yet, so they are not tried and true:)

I am trying to find a good clip for the students to watch but haven't narrowed down a good one yet...if anyone has ideas. I have looked at Inspector Gadget, Sherlock Holmes (BBC and American version), Detective Conan, and even Scooby Doo (this may be the winner if I can explain "jinkies").

Sidenote: somewhere on waygook is a Mario Clue board game that could probably be adapted to this lesson.

Thanks for providing material and ideas!

I created an additional review game for this lesson I call "Guess Who: Sneaky Sherlock." I used a template from Sleeping Elephants but used sentences that led to a sheet of suspects and the students had to come up with who did the crime using the key phrase "I'm sure it was ______," and then provide at least 2 of the clues. I put the Follow the Clues sheet under a sheet protector and gave each group of 4 a dry erase marker so they can cross of the suspects. My students really enjoyed playing this. Feel free to change and adapt in any way!

Here is my .ppt for "Follow the Clues".
The target is aimed at lower/intermediate level, but the difficulty can easily be ramped up.
This lesson works best arranging class into small groups, and giving each group a whiteboard (or paper).

Warm up: Word-wall activity: basically 2 minutes to find as many anagrams of the chapter's
                title (Follow the Clues) as possible.

Vocabulary 1 ("Have you heard that...?" "Yes, I heard it on the TV") listing media activity
                    and bookwork p. 138.

Vocabulary 2 ("I think that..." "I'm sure that..." etc) Arrange words by levels of certainty.
                    Bookwork p. 139 and Stephansalz's excellent "Certainty
                    game" which I spiffed up to match my .ppt theme.


Lesson worked well for my classes. High involvement, and a pretty competitive lesson.
Instructions are in the slide notes!
 Cheers!

I rarely comment on people's contributions, but this was amazing. So well thought out and put together. Flows so well and the students enjoyed every bit.

I had a lot of success with both these lessons.

Warning: Need a lot of management for heads up 7 up. They were pretty into it but make sure you tell them, ONLY TOUCH THE THUMB. No hitting or excessive force. And also, make sure the kids who are supposed to have their heads down jokingly touch the thumb next to them. Causes a lot of confusion.

For the memory game: make sure you give them pieces of paper to write down their answers. and have the teams read their answers one by one as a group - otherwise you'll get a lot of cheating. writing the answers prevents a lot of that. Thanks for the idea!

Games I did for this Lesson

Pt1 is a connect four dice game

The students roll dice (twice if you only have 1). The combination of the two numbers is the box they can choose. Once they choose a box, they make a "did you hear about the new _____" sentence using the picture. First to get 3 or 4 in a row wins the game.  Since it's close to testing season, I didn't add a variety in the pictures. Just a variation of the same four based on the expression written in the book so they can practice it.

Pt 2 is a game done with playing cards.

Every student gets two cards. every card is black except for one which should be red (or whatever way you wanna do it, just make sure one card is different somehow). The goal is to not have that different card, which is an "out card". Basically you start by having the 2nd student choose from the first and then 3rd student from the 2nd until the  last student(1st) chooses. They choose by saying " I'm sure the safe card is this one/ I'm sure that's the good card , etc.). When the last student chooses, everyone flips over their hand. Whoever has the card is out or loses a point, life, etc...

That's the basic game but it can be switched around in different styles. In my case, I bought a special avengers deck, so all the special cards have an avengers character on them. So the goal of my game was to try to become an Avenger. The students would say " I'm sure this is the card/ Avenger, etc.." I made every other student team members (1,3,5 team 1.... 2,4,6 team 2) and also used 2 avenger cards. Once the round is over,  everyone flips their hand. Which ever student has the cards, that team gets the point for that round. So if one team ends up with both cards, they get 2 points for the round. Whoever makes it to 10 wins.