Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Speckled Band Readers Theater Script for Grades 9 to 12

Invite your class into Doyle’s most chilling locked-room mystery. This high-school performance script highlights eerie estate details, psychological tension, and Holmes’s precise deductions while making space for timely conversations about control and courage. Students rotate through detective, witness, and narrator roles to build fluent oral reading and evidence-based discussion as the case unfolds toward its venomous reveal.

What’s Included

• Script: 3800 words, 10 scenes, 7 characters; casting breakdown (PDF & DOCX / Google Docs ready)
• Teacher Guide (~18 pages): scene summaries, primary-source context, discussion questions, standards alignment, answer keys (PDF & DOCX)
• Student Worksheet set (~25 slides): 10 vocabulary words, 10 short-answer questions, 5 analysis questions, 5 optional application questions
• Google Forms quiz: 20 self-graded questions

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Skills Addressed

• Fluency and prosody through dialogue-rich reading
• Evidence-based responses using textual clues and deductions
• Analysis of theme, tone, and structure in a suspense narrative
• Academic vocabulary in context
• Speaking & Listening: collaboration, performance, and feedback

Performance / Teaching Notes

• Assign Holmes to strong readers; narrators scaffold emerging readers
• Rehearse pacing and volume to build tension—props are optional
• Pause during the night-watch scene for predictions, then revisit evidence
• Use the self-grading quiz for quick comprehension checks

Standards

CCRA.R.1, CCRA.R.2, CCRA.R.3, CCRA.R.4, CCRA.R.5, CCRA.W.2, CCRA.W.9, CCRA.SL.1, CCRA.SL.6, CCRA.L.4