1. ‘The Sign of Four’ Chapter 11 – The Great Agra Treasure
Learning Objective
Should: Read and understand chapter 11 of ‘The Sign of Four’ – The Great Agra Treasure
Could: Continue to understand the character of Jonathan Small
Might: Understand the sub-plot, how it concludes and why Conan Doyle included it.

2. You will need…

3. Starter The Great Agra Treasure
On your own read the first paragraph of Chapter 11.
When you have finished reading turn to your character profiles for Jonathan Small and add as much as you can in each section.

4. Character Profiles Create a new character profile for Jonathan Small
Character Profiles Create a new character profile for Jonathan Small. As we read fill in as much detail as you can.
Appearance
Relationships
Jonathan Small
Important events
Important quotes

5. The Great Agra Treasure
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: “At the sound of my foot-fall she sprang to her feet, however, and a bright flush of surprise and of pleasure coloured her pale cheeks”

6. Might: Understand the sub-plot, how it concludes and why Conan Doyle included it.
Re-read the extract where Watson sees Mary Morstan. How does the language in this extract differ from that in the rest of the chapter/novel.
She was seated by the open window, dressed in some sort of white diaphanous material, with a little touch of scarlet at the neck and waist. The soft light of a shaded lamp fell upon her as she leaned back in the basket chair, playing over her sweet, grave face, and tinting with a dull, metallic sparkle the rich coils of her luxuriant hair. One white arm and hand drooped over the side of the chair, and her whole pose and figure spoke of an absorbing melancholy. At the sound of my foot-fall she sprang to her feet, however, and a bright flush of surprise and of pleasure coloured her pale cheeks.

7. The Great Agra Treasure
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

8. Copy and complete the table
Copy and complete the table. Write when in the sub-plot each one occurs and what it well us about the relationship between Watson and Mary.
Quotation
Effect on the romantic sub-plot
“I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.” (Chapter 2)
Watson’s first impression of Mary. Start of the sub-plot. Looks at her ‘nature’, not just her beauty
“What an attractive woman!” (Chapter 2)
“A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day… and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other.” (Chapter 5)
“Was it fair, was it honourable , that a half-pay surgeon should take such advantage of an intimacy which chance had brought about?” (Chapter 7)
“Now that they are gone I can tell you how I love you.”

9. ‘The Sign of Four’ Chapter 11 – The Great Agra Treasure
Learning Objective
Should: Read and understand chapter 10 of ‘The Sign of Four’ – The Great Agra Treasure
Could: Continue to Understand the character of Jonathan Small
Might: Understand the sub-plot, how it concludes and why Conan Doyle included it.

10. Homework
Should: Finish sub-plot table from plenary
Could: Update the character profiles of Watson and Mary Morstan
Might: Begin to read Chapter 12