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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired to create Sherlock Holmes based on his former university teacher Joseph Bell, known for his skills of observation and deduction. Doyle went on to write 56 short stories and 4 novels about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Some of the most popular stories include A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Sign of Four. The Victorian era in which the stories were set saw significant changes in Britain including industrialization, advances in science and technology, and the growth of London.

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Sherlock Holmes Webquest

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was inspired to create Sherlock Holmes based on his former university teacher Joseph Bell, known for his skills of observation and deduction. Doyle went on to write 56 short stories and 4 novels about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Some of the most popular stories include A Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Sign of Four. The Victorian era in which the stories were set saw significant changes in Britain including industrialization, advances in science and technology, and the growth of London.

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1: The Author & Inspiration

1. Describe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s biography.

http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/biography.html

https://www.arthurconandoyle.com/biography.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/
conan_sir_arthur_doyle.shtml

2. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Life in Pictures

a. List three interesting things you see in the photos


from Doyle’s life.

https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/
index.php/A_Life_in_Pictures

3. How many Sherlock stories did he write? What were


the four most popular Sherlock Holmes stories?
a. Who was the inspiration for Sherlock? Where did
Doyle know him from?

2: The Genre of Mystery


http://sherlockwebquest.weebly.com/the-genre-
of-mystery.html
1. What are the main elements of Mystery?
What are the five different types of plot?

2. Mystery books
a. List any five different types of mystery
stories.
b. What are the most famous English
mystery-detective books and authors
(Agatha Christie, Barbara Nadel,
Raymond Chandler, Lindsey Davis,...)?
c. What was the title of Doyle’s first
Sherlock story and when was it written?
What is it about?

3: The Victorian Age


http://sherlockwebquest.weebly.com/the-historial-
context.html
http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/history.html
1. When was the Victorian Age?
2. What was significant about Queen Victoria’s
64-year reign?
3. The Victorian period is famous because it was a
time of many important changes for the British
people.
a. What were some of the changes that were
happening?
b. Did rich people have comfortable lives?
c. Did poor people? Did most children go to
school in Victorian times? What did they
do if they didn’t go to school?

4: Baker Street
http://sherlockwebquest.weebly.com/221b-baker-st--story-
locations.html
https://www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk/home.htm
1. Search for information about 221b Baker
Street, the residence of London’s most
famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.

5: The main characters in Sherlock


Holmes’s stories
https://www.conandoyleinfo.com/sherlock-holmes/characters-
in-the-world-of-sherlock-holmes/

https://www.gradesaver.com/the-adventures-of-sherlock-
holmes/study-guide/character-list

1. Sherlock Holmes.
a. Appearance and personality.
b. Holmesian deduction.
c. Knowledge and skills.
d. Life.

2. Dr Watson.

3. Professor Moriarty.
a. What is Professor Moriarty’s relationship with

Holmes?

b. Why is it so hard for Holmes to catch Moriarty?

c. In which Sherlock Holmes stories does


Moriarty appear?

6: Sherlock Holmes’s stories


adaptations
1. TV series.
2. Cinema.
3. Theatre.
4. Books.
https://imaginationsoup.net/sherlock-holmes-kids/
https://www.iheartbritishtv.com/the-complete-guide-to-
sherlock-holmes-adaptations/
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/top-
sherlock-adaptations-01-0

7: Famous detectives.

1. Famous real detectives.


https://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/
student-advice/what-to-study/top-ten-real-life-
detectives

2. Famous fictional detectives in books, films and


TV series. (Name, job, date of creation, creator,
characteristics, etc.): Miss Marple. Columbo.
Nancy Drew. Hercule Poirot…
8: Famous criminals.
1. Famous real criminals (choose one example of
a gangster, drug lord, robber, murderer, serial
killer, fraudster, war criminal and terrorist.
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/criminals.php

2. Famous fictional criminals in books, films and


TV series.
9: London in the 19th Century.
https://duqengland.annagibson.com/2018/06/12/
sherlock-london/
https://duqengland.annagibson.com/2018/06/15/
sherlock-holmes-in-19th-century-london/

1. London in the 19th Century. What did


the rapid growth of London lead to?

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