Thursday and Friday this week students watched The Hound of the Baskervilles in Eighth grade English. The classic Sherlock Holmes mystery ends the mystery unit off by showcasing all the elements: disguises, clues, a victim, a red herring, aliases, and a dastardly criminal. The movie, set in 1889 is based on the book of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle. Students in the grade read two different mystery stories, including The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline, a mystery story that tells the story of Sherlock Holmes through the eyes of his fictional sister Enola. The story involves a cryptic message embroidered into a crinoline in Morse Code by Florence Nightingale to tell a British lord about the failures of the Crimean War.
