1. ‘The Sign of Four’ Chapter 6: Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
Learning Objective
Should: Read and understand chapter 6 of ‘The Sign of Four’ – Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
Could: Continue to understand about Victorian policing and relate this to the novel.
Might: Plan a 5 star paragraph to complete for homework.

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3. Chapter 6 Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
As we continue to read make sure you:
Listen carefully
Use your glossary to check any key words as we go along
Put your hand up and ask if there are any extra words we need to add to our glossary
Read to: “The answer should give us the – But halloo! here are the accredited representatives of the law.”

4. Police.—The police force of London comprises the Metropolitan Police and the City Police. The latter have jurisdiction in the city of London proper, covering about 1 square mile, and consisting of 8oo men. The Metropolitan Police District extends to a radius of about 15 miles from Charing-cross, and covers more than 700 square miles. The force consists of about 11,100 men divided into 20 divisions. Each sergeant and constable bears the letter of his division and number on his collar, which should be taken down if any complaint has to be preferred. Within a reasonable distance of nearly every house in a populous district there is, besides the local police-station, a fixed police point , at which a constable may always be found from 9 am to 1 a.m. If the constable at the fixed point be called away on special duty, his place is taken by the first patrol who arrives at the vacant place. Every householder should learn where is the nearest police-station and fixed point. If police assistance be required on some special occasion, such as a party, personal or written application should be made to the superintendent of the division on which the ground is situated. Such duty is done by men in their own time, and from 5s. to 10s. is generally given by the person interested. 
Charles Dickens (Jr.), Dickens's Dictionary of London, 1879
Write down 5 facts that you learn about the police from Charles Dickens' extract

5. The ‘Peelers were a new type of police force.
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The ‘Peelers were a new type of police force.
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6. Chapter 6 Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
As we continue to read make sure you:
Listen carefully
Use your glossary to check any key words as we go along
Put your hand up and ask if there are any extra words we need to add to our glossary
Read to: the end of the chapter

7. Detectives – Police and Amateurs
Athelney Jones would have been one of the new types of detective, in charge of the ‘peelers’ and able to wear plain clothes.
"I think you must recollect me, Mr. Athelney Jones," said Holmes, quietly.
"Why, of course I do!" he wheezed. "It's Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the theorist. Remember you! I'll never forget how you lectured us all on causes and inferences and effects in the Bishopgate jewel case. It's true you set us on the right track; but you'll own now that it was more by good luck than good guidance."
What impression do you get of Athelney Jones? Why?
"Confirms it in every respect," said the fat detective, pompously. "House is full of Indian curiosities. Thaddeus brought this up, and if this splinter be poisonous Thaddeus may as well have made murderous use of it as any other man. The card is some hocus-pocus,—a blind, as like as not. “
Challenge – From your research, what do you think the Victorians thought of the police?

8. LO: Plan a 5 star paragraph to complete for homework.
Plenary Read carefully over this (shorter than usual) extract and (half) examination style question. How would you answer it? Plan 2 – 3 points that you could create a 5 star paragraph for.

9. LO: Plan a 5 star paragraph to complete for homework.
"Surely," said he, with something of the air of a clinical professor expounding to his class. "Just sit in the corner there, that your footprints may not complicate matters. Now to work! In the first place, how did these folk come, and how did they go? The door has not been opened since last night. How of the window?" He carried the lamp across to it, muttering his observations aloud the while, but addressing them to himself rather than to me. "Window is snibbed on the inner side. Framework is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it. No water-pipe near. Roof quite out of reach. Yet a man has mounted by the window. It rained a little last night. Here is the print of a foot in mould upon the sill. And here is a circular muddy mark, and here again upon the floor, and here again by the table. See here, Watson! This is really a very pretty demonstration."
How does Conan Doyle create tension in this extract?

10. Homework Should: Write a five star paragraph for this question
Go on!
Challenge yourself.
Homework
Should: Write a five star paragraph for this question
Could: Complete two or more five star paragraphs for this question
Might: Push yourself by choosing a challenging area from the extension star.

11. ‘The Sign of Four’ Chapter 6: Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
Learning Objective
Should: Read and understand chapter 6 of ‘The Sign of Four’ – Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration
Could: Continue to understand about Victorian policing and relate this to the novel.
Might: Plan a 5 star paragraph to complete for homework.