Two Minute Mystery - Mr. Dawursk`s Classroom
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Minute Mystery Sequence
Mr. Glen Dawursk, Jr.
www.mrdclassroom.com
Assignment
Two
Minute Mystery
Descriptive Essay
For our mystery unit, you are required to
write a “2 Minute Mystery” following the
format of those we have read and
analyzed in class.
Mystery Assignment
Use the title “The Case of ……”
Include clues and dialogue between characters.
Use plenty of descriptive words.
Be sure that it can be easily read in two minutes.
This means that is should be no longer than one page TYPED
(word-processed), about 500 words.
The mystery plot should end with the detective
(you) making an accusation followed by a
question to the reader.
After the question, put the solution to the mystery
at the bottom of the paper under the heading:
“The Solution”
Mystery Assignment Hand-in
YOU MUST DO BOTH to receive
credit for the assignment!
Double-space type your mystery and
print a copy to hand-in on the due date,
and e-mail it to [email protected].
Save your document file name as follows:
“period number – your last name.doc”
Example:
1-dawursk.doc
Mystery: Plot
2-Minute
Plot
The sequence of action
The events which tell what
happens in your mystery.
Whatever the characters do
or did
Your mystery should answer
who, what, where, when
and why.
Mystery: Structure
2-Minute Structure
The framework that
determines how a
story is put together;
its “skeleton.”
The structure of a
“two-minute mystery”
like many short stories
includes five basic
elements.
Mystery: Plot Elements
The
five main elements of any
Mystery plot are:
Exposition (introduction)
1/5
3/5
1/5
Inciting
Moment (Initial Complication)
Rising action (mini-complications)
Climax (crisis)
Denouement (resolution)
Mystery: Plot Diagram
CLIMAX
ARISING
visual
representation
ACTION
of the Mystery
plot
EXPOSITION
INCITING
DENOUEMENT
MOMENT
Mystery: Plot Diagram
CLIMAX
DENOUEMENT
RISING
ACTION
EXPOSITION
INCITING MOMENT
Mystery: Exposition
Exposition
is your Introduction
Usually one very descriptive sentence
which simply tells when and/or where
Example: “It was a dark, rainy
night in a town that never
sleeps, when suddenly…”
Mystery: Setting
Setting
Environment in which the story takes place.
Most
of the setting will be given
after the crime scene has been
introduced.
Location; place
Date; time
Specific situation
Historical context
Mystery: Plot Diagram
CLIMAX
DENOUEMENT
RISING
ACTION
EXPOSITION
INCITING MOMENT
Mystery: Inciting Moment
Inciting Moment
The start of the conflict
and usually the
beginning of
rising action
Conflict is the actual
crime!
The Conflict
There is only ONE conflict in a two-minute
mystery; something illegal has just
happened or was just discovered.
Examples:
I received a call from Margret Smith; there had been a
murder outside her East condo.
I heard a knock at my door; it was Officer Jones informing
me that the First Bank on Wells Street had just been
robbed.
The detective received an urgent text stating that he was
needed at Schmitty’s Bar on Edge Street as there was a
dead body found in the dumpster.
Mystery: Plot Diagram
CLIMAX
DENOUEMENT
RISING
ACTION
EXPOSITION
INCITING MOMENT
Mystery: Exposition
Additional
exposition is given
AFTER the inciting moment in a
minute mystery.
Location; place
Date; time
Specific situation
Historical context
Details are essential.
Mystery: Characters
Characters
The
individuals in the story.
This includes the
victim, witnesses,
and the accused.
This will be the bulk of your mystery:
3/5th of story.
Use dialog to give character attitude,
misleading evidence and other clues.
Mystery: Protagonist
Protagonist
The
main or central
character in the
story…is the
detective, possibly
“you” representing
the victim.
Mystery: Antagonist
Antagonist
The
adversary of the
protagonist
The individual(s) who
did the crime being
investigated
Mystery: Rising Action
Rising
The
Action
part of the story usually
after the inciting moment
where we are given the bulk
of the clues, character
descriptions, crime scene
information and additional
information.
Mystery: Plot Diagram
CLIMAX
DENOUEMENT
RISING
ACTION
EXPOSITION
INCITING MOMENT
Mystery: Climax
Climax
Where the detective says
“You did it” and then the
narration is followed with a
question to the reader.
Question example:
Who did it and why?
Mystery: Plot Diagram
CLIMAX
DENOUEMENT
RISING
ACTION
EXPOSITION
INCITING MOMENT
Mystery: Denouement
Denouement
French for “the
tying of ends.”
Also called the resolution
to the story.
Comes after the climax to
bring aspects of the plot to
a close.
Give the SOLUTION to the
mystery
Mystery: Plot Diagram
CLIMAX
ARISING
visual
representation
ACTION
of the Mystery
plot
EXPOSITION
INCITING
DENOUEMENT
MOMENT
Two-Minute Mystery
Mr. Glen Dawursk, Jr.
www.mrdclassroom.com