{"id":359,"date":"2021-03-01T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T05:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/?p=359"},"modified":"2021-03-03T22:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T06:04:16","slug":"how-to-write-a-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/2021\/03\/01\/how-to-write-a-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Write a Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-363 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/files\/2021\/03\/mystery1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/files\/2021\/03\/mystery1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/files\/2021\/03\/mystery1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by all the mysteries we read this term, and with the help of Ms. Liu, students took a turn at writing their own who-dunnits. Solving a mystery can be difficult, but we discovered that writing a mystery comes with its own challenges. First, students uncovered the various elements of the mystery genre such as, detectives, suspects, motive, opportunity, clues and red herrings, just to name a few. Then, they used organizers to plan their story outlines. Mini-lessons on writing techniques like, &#8220;show don&#8217;t tell&#8221; and incorporating dialogue helped students tell their story in interesting ways. Next came drafts and re-drafts and finally peer editing, self-editing and publishing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-360 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/files\/2021\/03\/mystery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"135\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Can you figure out who committed the crime?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by all the mysteries we read this term, and with the help of Ms. Liu, students took a turn at writing their own who-dunnits. Solving a mystery can be difficult, but we discovered that writing a mystery comes with its own challenges. First, students uncovered the various elements of the mystery genre such as, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}