My students are absolutely addicted to escape rooms, and LOVED Roald Dahl’s story “The Landlady”. I created this escape room to review the elements of the short story, including foreshadowing, characterization, figurative language, vocabulary, plot, and author's craft/ diction/ syntax. Students should read the text BEFORE they do the escape room.

Students will act as detectives trying to solve the mystery of the landlady’s true identity. The escape room will take place in the infamous Bed and Breakfast. You’ll set up your room with the different areas of interest from the story for your students to examine. They will visit each station and complete the task there in order to gather information to add to their dossier (answer sheet). Some stations will take longer/ shorter than others. It is up to you if you want to have your students work individually, with a partner, or in a small group.

Once all stations are complete, students will use the clues and information they’ve recorded on their dossier to identify which suspect is the murderer. My students had A TON of fun with this activity!

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**This pdf contains the whole product AND a link to the same activity but in a Google Doc. Access and save it whichever way works best for YOU!**

This is a fun collaborative activity that requires students to discuss different quotes from the text and decide whether or not they foreshadow the ending of the story!

Included are 17 quotes from "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl that you will cut into strips. 12 of the quotes ARE foreshadowing, 5 are NOT. You'll make a set for each group of students. The directions (included- you can project them or make copies) instruct the students to make a pile of the strips that show foreshadowing, and a pile of the ones that do not. For the ones that DO, they are instructed to discuss what Dahl was foreshadowing or hinting at with each line.

Afterwards, the students will complete a reflection question individually. I have included two different questions for you to choose from, OR you could offer the students a choice as to which one they would like to answer. The first asks them to select the quote from the activity that pinpoints the moment in the text when they realized what was foreshadowed throughout the whole story. The second asks them to identify and explain the quote that contributed the most to the suspenseful mood of the text.

If you are looking to differentiate this activity, you could give lower level students a smaller amount of quotes. Higher level students who finish early could be challenged to turn the examples that are NOT foreshadowing into foreshadowing by adding in some words!

I've included an answer key for your convenience.

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This file contains 2 different packets of Socratic Circle questions- packet A and packet B. Each packet contains 3 different questions that require students to answer and provide two quotes from the text to back up their answers. Students are also required to come up with 3 additional questions they will ask if there's time in their circle. Finally, the packet has a page where each student will monitor a partner in the opposite circle. They will make a check each time their partner speaks, and paraphrase a meaningful comment their partner made. Lastly, the file contains the socratic circle rubric.

When you print out the file, you'll see packet A on the top half of the sheet, packet B on the bottom half, and then the rubric as the last page of the file. You'll need to cut each packet page in half after you print them out, as each booklet you give to the students is only half a page. They are labeled A and B. Give half your class A, half B, and allow them to plan! The day of the circle, you'll let A discuss for maybe 20-30 minutes, then flip-flop your circles and have B discuss.

My students really enjoy Socratic Seminars! I have found it works better when you give each group three different questions, so you don't see the same discussion 2 times, which is how this packet is set up. I used the Socratic Circle as their "final test grade" for the short story. The students need to have finished the story to answer the questions included in the packet. Please email me if you have questions about this product! Thank you! sarajoy916@gmail.com

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