SHERLOCK HOLMES stories
Okay class - here's another reading assignment for you. Please visit this site http://www.citsoft.com/holmes3.html and then scroll down until you find the link for "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons." I want you to read that story so we can discuss it in class.
I would also like for you all to figure out how to use this blog. There's a COMMENT marker at the bottom of this entry and all you need to do is click on that and the Blogger site will help you to register and then you can leave your comments. I want each of you to leave at least one comment about the reading.
Have fun reading the tale and feel free to read others if you choose!
I would also like for you all to figure out how to use this blog. There's a COMMENT marker at the bottom of this entry and all you need to do is click on that and the Blogger site will help you to register and then you can leave your comments. I want each of you to leave at least one comment about the reading.
Have fun reading the tale and feel free to read others if you choose!
posted by Warlock at 7:11 AM
7 Comments:
Hey Ramona! Nice of you to drop by. You are the first to do so thus far! Congrats! I hope you enjoy this story about Sherlock Holmes. I think this will be a lot of fun for all of us and we can utilize the text for our semiotic analyses.
See you next time!
Glad to see you all figured this out! Hope you enjoy/enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes story. Can hardly wait to discuss it with you in two weeks. See you soon!
Look in again soon for more comments.
Wow - it's neat to see so many of you getting into the story. I'm glad. This means our discussion next time should be MIRACULOUS! I have a little demonstration to make and then we'll discuss Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Feel free to read other stories if you like. See you on here again very soon.
Great to see so many of you getting into Sherlock Holmes! Please remember that not everyone has read the stories yet - don't give away too much of the solution!
I'll check back tomorrow to see what else has been written here - look for more comments soon!
Liza's comment sums up most of the Holmes tales quite well, but it's actually the other way around. CSI and many other crime dramas actually inherited all of their "tools" from Sherlock Holmes, not to mention all the plots and other literary ideas they've stolen.
I'm not saying shows like CSI are not original, merely that the plotlines are similar to those created by Doyle - stories that he borrowed directly from reality through his reading of the daily newspaper.
Read your own paper and you'll see that the same stuff happens regularly - individuals killing one another for insurance money (a regular theme in Sherlock Holmes stories), revenge, etc.
Read other stories in this series and you'll see I'm right!
I had hoped to see more comments on the blog by now. Both classes should have read the story for Wed and Thurs - better get with it and read fast!
I'll see you all soon and we'll have fun talking about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
Looks like most of you from the first class have written in with your remarks. We met tonight to discuss the tale (briefly) - just wish more of you had found it as interesting as I did. Alas...
Hope to see the rest of you writing in tonight and tomorrow. I'm eager to read more comments!
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