Monday, April 19, 2010

Psych


On friday we watched a show called Psych which is another mystery kind of like Monk. There where all of the elements of the mystery.Crime was the death of Mr.McCallum's son.Problem solvers where Sean and Gus, as Shaun was feigning that he was a psychic.The villian was Mr.Mcallum, for killing his son.The clues was the spiled coffee, the blood on the table corner, and the plaster on Mr.Mcallum's dad.The evidence was the wound was fresh in Mr.McCallum's hand.An alibi was the fact that Mr.McCallum was always denying that he had to do anything with the death of his son.The red herrings was the kidnapping of the child to throw Sean off, and another one is when Sean thought the bag of clothes was money.A witness was the dog and Rosso of the death of the son.Suspense was when they are trying to find the son when the kidnapping happens.The surprise ending was the dad killed his son.
The picture is when the cops are catching Sean because they think he is faking his powers. Also in this episode.

Monday, April 12, 2010

6 Elements of a mystery

Every mystery has suspense. The picture I chose was of a police car chase.h
Every mystery has a suspect who is usually asked questions.

Most mystery's have clues that help the detective prove who is guilty



Every mystery has evidence that relates the villain to the crime.


Every mystery always has a criminal or villain who commits the crime.




Every mystery has a detective who tries to solve the mystery.

























Thursday, April 8, 2010

Monk


Today in class we watched a TV show called monk, which had most of the elements of the mystery, there was a crime which was the murder of Angeline's Uncle(owner of a office phone company) . The investigator was Monk and his colleagues. The criminal was Angeline for killing her uncle. There was no alibi in this mystery, the victim was Angeline's uncle. The suspect was the shopkeeper but it wasn't him. There was some suspense at the end of the episode. The red herring was the two other deaths that happened, Monk thought that the people are getting killed by the same murderer. There was no witnesses. The evidence was the medicine bottles and the voodoo doll. A clue was that Angeline was at all the deaths. The investigation was there done by Monk and the police. The surprise ending was that Angeline was the killer.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Beyond the spiderwick chronicles

The spiderwick chronicles is a The Spiderwick Chronicles is a series books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. They chronicle the adventures of the Grace children, twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory, after they move into Spiderwick Estate and discover a world of faeries that they never knew existed.

A second series, entitled Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, has also been written, with The Nixie's Song published in September 2007, A Giant Problem published in September 2008, and The Wyrm King published in September 2009.

The main cahrictor is a 11-year-old boy named Nick Vargas and lives with his brother, Jules, weird stepsister, Laurie, dad, Paul, and stepmom, Charlene, in his father's housing development. Laurie has read the Spiderwick Chronicles and believes in faeries. Nick thinks she is "lame" and wishes she would leave him alone. After finding a four-leafed clover (which allow people to see faeries) he sees a strange creature (later revealed to be a nixie) unconscious in his yard which he and Laurie carry into a nearby lake. The next day, the nixie, Taloa, gives Nick and Laurie the sight and sends them to find her six sisters who were separated when their pond was destroyed. Later they find the fireblasted pond and there are attacked by a giant creature they mistook for a hill.

They escape the giant when it is lured by Taloa's singing and becomes calm. They decide to ask the authors of the Chronicles for advice at a book signing and convince Jules to drive them. Once there, they are disappointed when the adults don't believe them and run into Jared and Simon Grace who decide to help them. Jared tells them about a giant expert who lived nearby and they plan to meet at his address. The place appears to be deserted and the kids take several papers including a diagram of a giant trap. While the giant is hypnotized by the nixie's song, the three kids tie the giant up. It thrashes around, strangling itself with the cords, and the kids are horrified at what they've done. Then an old man walks up and tells them that the giant isn't really dead and kills it with a machete. He also explains that he is a giant hunter and this is only the first of many giants to wake up and unless they help him, all of Florida will be destroyed.