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Adventure 6: “The Man with the Twisted Lip”
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Abstract: Mr. Watson finds Holmes in an opium den when looking for a friend who had been missing. Holmes is studying a case in which a man disappeared from the upstairs room of the den. All that was found was a deformed man with a limp and traces of the man’s blood and clothes with no apparent violence.

Source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (London: George Newnes Ltd., 1892)


Lexile Level: TBD
       
Origin: British
       
Genre: Fiction, Mystery/Suspense
Reading Level: 6        Language: English        File name: 1152
Sunshine State Standards:
LA.D.2.3.1-7: The student understands the power of language.

LA.E.1.3.1-5: The student understands the common features of a variety of literary forms.

LA.E.2.3.1-8: The student responds critically to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama.


Theme: Mystery
Reading Strategy: Vocabulary (Listening, speaking, reading, writing, words we must know to communicate effectively)
 
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