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Applying Holmes Rule # 2
• Make use of primary and secondary sources to enhance your instruction. With your outcome in mind, plan and create exciting units that flow from student interpretations of these types of sources. Which Primary Sources are most important to your classroom?
Applying Holmes Rules # 1
• Begin with the end in mind by problematizing the content. Instead of asking students to “Discuss the historic election of 1800 and its consequences for the United States”. Why not begin with a problem? Why did John Adams lose the election of 1800? What social, political, and economic developments over the course of his presidency helped to cost him the White House?
Elementary My Dear Watson
Organizing your Unit Plans and Analyzing Primary Sources with the World’s Greatest Detectives: Your Students!
Anthony Fitzpatrick Vice-President of Professional Development Services The American Institute for History Education
Holmes Rules # 1
• In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically. • A Study in Scarlet

221B Baker Street & your classroom
• One of the best known literary characters of all time, Sherlock Holmes was indeed the World’s Greatest Detective. Unlike the superheroes of today who owe their enormous strength or intellect to mysterious super powers, Holmes acknowledged that most of his powers of sleuthing grew out of the art of observation and deduction.
Holmes Rules # 2
• “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” • A Scandal in Bohemia
221B Baker Street & your classroom
• But just what exactly were those “methods?” More importantly how can we apply them in our classrooms to make our students historical detectives on the trail of the past through the reading and interpretation of various types of evidence?
Elementary My Dear Watson
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221B Baker Street & Your Classroom
• Introducing himself to a would be client in The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous super sleuth Sherlock Holmes famously declared, “Here is my lens. You know my methods.”