With a 95% success rate in class retention and participation, I'd highly recommend this activity to teachers and learning groups. I developed my own Murder mystery/ClueClassroom that I unveiled this afternoon with five blocks of Grade 12 College level English. It was probably some of the most fun I have ever seen students have in class.
This classroom that it proved extremely challenging in for students was an ELL classroom. I had never run this before, but my students seemed to have fun. A lot of them couldn't contain themselves and really wanted to continue the game. Unfortunately, being a Friday, that doesn't quite work well. But, now I have something that they are working towards, another (more twist orientated) Murder mystery, and oh they will get one. However, this comes after the writing is done. This is an excellent oral assessment activity in which students are reading from different perspectives, speaking to different perspectives, speaking for different purposes, and using spoken language conventions such as intonation, pronunciation, and recognition of unfamiliar/infrequent vocabulary words.
Let us take a moment to not only recognize the wealth of English classroom experience it provides students with but also the potentiality for historical, scientific and mathematical connections. The current draw-up of this activity is the it is cross-curricular with the Arts, specifically, Drama and Theater.
My next two steps are big ones that will take Beta Tester's experiences and improve the instructional phase for students and teachers (as I see that being the biggest setback at the moment).
These will be for sale along with the teacher manual in a bundle set of 3-4 ranging in difficulty/time required. Keep an eye out on the Teacher's Pay Teachers for updates! To get a hard copy and laminated set, you will need to contact me personally and we can make shipping arrangements accordingly. Generally what I am thinking of doing is offering up the hard-deck along with the electronic as a "Box-Set" that I will coordinate through the store/personal contact.
Here is a link to a very barebones DEMO, I offered customized work (up for hire), price list/range coming out in the next couple weeks
https://www.slideshare.net/CarmeloBono/clueclassroom-ppt-murder-mystery-demo?qid=e08eed28-2677-418a-a3a1-090522a40773&v=&b=&from_search=1
Inspirational Website:
https://community.eflclassroom.com/forum2/topics/playing-clue-in-class
All the best,
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