The Long Goodbye Lesson Plan

CSI: Idle Valley

Kind of Activity:

Group Discussion

Objective:

Students will find salient details in the text to build a strong mental image of a setting.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.1, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.11-12.1

Structure:

As a class, revisit the chapters surrounding Roger Wade's murder. The goal of this exercise is to use textual evidence to build a rough schematic of the Wade household, and attempt to determine the veracity of the various theories of who killed Wade. We can create a rough layout of the house from Chandler's descriptions. We know that there is some distance between Wade's study and the outlook where Marlowe watched the...