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FifthYear Interim Report 2013 SACSCOC Annual Meeting December 710 2013 Atlanta Georgia UCF Team Tace Crouse coordinator of UCFs FifthYear Report and peer reviewer Diane Chase . S. trategy That Works! . Jana Kirchner, Ph.D.. Asst. Professor, Teacher Education. Western Kentucky University . (Jana.kirchner@wku.edu). NCSS . Conference. November 21, 2014. What is it that fascinates us about mysteries?. A secret, a riddle, a puzzle. Essential ingredients are an element of crime mixed with an element of detection. You have to find out the secret, and solve the riddle or puzzle to find the criminal or enemy and crack the case . Mystery. Genre Writing. Genre of writing which includes characters attempting to identify the unknown.. What is the unknown?. A crime: murder, kidnapping, an attack, theft. An action: the identification of a long lost relative, locating lost treasure. 1. Within your learner workbook, follow the clues as these will . help you to find the . profession. , the favourite. sport. and the . home town . of Christine, Anna, Charles, Paul and Vincent. You have 20 minutes to discover who does what and where.. A secret, a riddle, a puzzle. Essential ingredients are an element of crime mixed with an element of detection. You have to find out the secret, and solve the riddle or puzzle to find the criminal or enemy and crack the case . Reading . Skill: . Guessing . meaning from context. If you . come across . a word you don’t . understand . in . a book or article you are reading, . you can use the context to help you understand the meaning of the word. The context is the words near the unknown word. Looking up every new word in the dictionary will slow your reading.. La Jolla High School. Math for America, San Diego. tvu@sandi.net. Show Mystery triangle. I am thinking of a triangle. Your challenge is to uncover my triangle by drawing an identical triangle identical with as few clues as possible. Think about what clues you would like me to give you.. A Civil War Mystery. In this activity, we are going to be . history. detectives. . as we explore Civil War artifacts. from the National Museum of American History. . Look carefully…. What clues do you see? . Juli Pascoe, . CPA. , Director. Julie Bilyeu, Director. Case #: 1. Disappearing Medicare Payments. The Evidence:. The Informer: Administrator . Frieda . Krueger. The Scene: Elm Street Manor. The Mystery: The SNF has a large amount of uncollected Medicare balances.. Juli Pascoe, . CPA. , Director. Julie Bilyeu, Director. Case #: 1. Disappearing Medicare Payments. The Evidence:. The Informer: Administrator . Frieda . Krueger. The Scene: Elm Street Manor. The Mystery: The SNF has a large amount of uncollected Medicare balances.. The character or characters who look for clues and solve the crime.. Crime. The problem the detective need to solve in the mystery. Usually a murder but any crime will work.. Clues. The evidence the detective looks at to find out who is guilty. They can be fingerprints, DNA, items left at the crime scene.. Juli Pascoe, . CPA. , Director. Julie Bilyeu, Director. Case #: 1. Disappearing Medicare Payments. The Evidence:. The Informer: Administrator . Frieda . Krueger. The Scene: Elm Street Manor. The Mystery: The SNF has a large amount of uncollected Medicare balances.. In this activity, we are going to be . history. detectives. . as we explore Civil War artifacts. from the National Museum of American History. . Look carefully…. What clues do you see? . What can you learn about these artifacts just by looking? . 53. Mission: To share our stories and . reflect on our writing experience.. Do Now: . BEFORE you write. , read the front of the writing . reflection sheet. .