Penketh High School

Media Arts College

Independent Learners
A person who is an
independent learner can
manage themselves as an
individual or in group situations
and will have these skills:
Goal setting: The ability to set
realistic, relevant, challenging
and manageable goals.
Time and resourcemanagement: the ability to
manage their own time and
resources.
Focus: the ability to focus on
the task in hand and work
through distractions.

Subject:

English

Topic Title:

Detective Genre

Term:
Deadline:

Spring term 2014

W/C 10th February

Your Task Choices

(Please choose one option from the Poster Task and Two options from the Written Task)
You should

Poster:
1. Create a wanted poster for an evil villain wanted for murder.

Written:
1. Write a review of a detective tv show
2. Write an anonymous letter to a Detective providing them with some long lost evidence and clues to an
unsolved murder.
3. Write a short Detective Story.
Your Success Criteria:
(Once youve chosen the format for your work, follow the guideline below to make your work as good as
possible)
Wanted Poster:
-A3/A4 paper
-Image of suspects/criminals face
-Make their face seem behind bars
-Include details; what theyre wanted for, how
much the reward is etc.
Use www.glassgiant.com/wanted to generate your
own poster.
2.Anonymous Letter
-One side of A4
-Plan/Imagine a crime/murder story that the
letter will provide clues for.
-Language should be dark, sinister and very
vague and hard to understand.
1.

1.

Gifted & Talented

Challenge Box:

1.

Review of Detective TV Show:

- Typed or handwritten
- Watch a detective / murder mystery show
- Review the show commenting on; how
interesting / original the case is how good the
detective is how good are the red herrings /
clues /twists etc.
3.Detective Story
-One side of A4
-Plan/Imagine a crime/murder story that
your detective will investigate.
-Write vivid character and settings.
-Use a variety of vocabulary.

Useful Websites:
(to help you with this task)

Literacy Focus:

Dont forget to
proofread all of your
written work and make
Write the script for the
sure you have the
opening scene of a new
- www.glassgiant.com/wanted/
correct punctuation
Detective TV. Show;
at the end of every
creating a new detective
- www.wikipedia.org
sentence.
character aimed at a
Use a thesaurus to find
teenage audience.
a better word.
Does each paragraph
contain one expanded
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- www.mysterynet.com/profiles/tv

Year
8