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Chapter III: “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Abstract: Elsie marries Hilton Cubitt and tells him not to ask her about her past. She gets a letters from the United States and pictures of small dancing men start appearing everywhere around her. Holmes is brought in to get to the bottom of the pictures. From then on, things get worse until Holmes cracks the case. Source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes (London: Georges Newnes, Ltd, 1905)
Lexile Level: TBD
Origin: British
Genre: Fiction, Mystery/SuspenseReading Level: 6.2 Language: English File Name: 1222 Sunshine State Standards:
LA.A.1.3: The student uses the reading process effectively.LA.D.2.3: The student understands the power of language.
LA.E.1.3: The student understands the common features of a variety of literary forms.
Theme: MysteryReading Strategy: Comprehension (Decode, make connections to prior knowledge, think about and control what is being read) Download Support Material Download MP3 View text as webpage Download PDF Mp3 Length: 0:51:35 Word count: 9644 Use PDF for printing
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