Thank you to Detective Boutwell, from the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department, for coming into our classroom and speaking with Liberty-Benton 8th Graders to share about his job as a detective. Mrs. Heidi Irwin’s eighth grade reading classes are currently in the middle of a unit of study that surrounds the genre of mystery. During this unit, students are reading and participating in activities that will put them in the role of detectives. Even though we try to recreate the job of a detective through our skills in reading for detail, deductive reasoning, sequencing, vocabulary and being able to communicate, we don’t have “real” crime scenes and case files that we are working with. Mr. Boutwell helped bring literature to life and bridge our studies to the “real world” by sharing his experiences. Students also enjoyed trying to “dust” for fingerprints during Detective Boutwell demonstration on latent fingerprinting.
