Whodunit? - Who Stole Dracula's Coffin? - A Classroom Mystery Inference Activity

Who Stole Dracula's Coffin? is an interactive classroom activity that promotes collaboration, logic, inference, critical thinking, character analysis and fun in your classroom. Students work to solve a mystery involving some of the greatest literary characters of all time. There are two versions included - one with a named thief and the second, where student consensus determines who committed the crime.

Murder mystery game without the murder.

This is a great group activity, classroom team activity, or center activity. It is a great way to introduce units on mystery, character, literature or just for a fun and engaging activity. It is also great for classroom parties or bonus time. This is a student-centered WhoDunit?

No knowledge of the novel necessary.

This resource includes two ways to play and is appropriate for grades 5-12.

• Version 1 has a set culprit in the "Character Dossiers."
• Version 2's has student come to a consensus to determine who the murder is.

There are 20 roles, a director roles and the rest of the class play "detective" to solve the mystery.

Brief Overview of “Who Stole Dracula's Coffin?"

Vampires and humans have gathered at the request of Countess Evergreen at the first Vampire Peace Summit with the purpose of hashing out a peace treaty between humans and vampires. The goal is to get vampires to stop drinking human blood and to stop turning human into the undead. In return, humans will stop driving stakes through vampires’ hearts, wearing garlic and killing the undead. The two worlds will co-exist harmoniously – or so is the hope. Countess Evergreen is a vegetarian vampire - one who doesn’t consume human blood. In order to attend the summit, all vampires had to agree to not consume human blood while in attendance. Likewise, all humans had to agree to leave their stakes and garlic at home.

Everybody followed the rules except one being – Dracula. Dracula despises animal blood and hid human blood in his coffin. He thought no one noticed, but some did and now the entire summit may be ruined.

Blood was not the only thing in the coffin, so was a crown worth $37 million dollars – and was there something else? Now, Dracula is angry and is threatening to destroy each and every person and vampire at the summit unless he gets his things back. The authorities have been called.

The entire group is staying at the estate of the Count and Countess of Evergreen. All of the vampires on one wing. All of the others on another wing. Dracula’s room was in at the top of the long winding staircase, so pretty much everyone has access.

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