Due November 12th at 9:00 a.m.

The Case of the Missing What’s-It-Called, Part 1

You have always been good at solving mysteries and everyone knows it.  When something is lost you always manage to find it, and because of this, people come to you when things are missing or there is a mystery to solve.  this special talent has earned you the nickname “Detective”, a nickname you’re proud of.

So when you woke up this morning and had a feeling it was going to be a mystery-solving kind of day, you knew that’s exactly what it was going to be.  Experience has told you that feeling is usually right.

After eating breakfast and saying good-bye to your folks, you pack your lunch in your backpack and head off to school, just as you would on any ordinary day.

You get to school and everything seems pretty normal.  You say hello to your friends, turn in your homework, unpack your backpack.  the teacher sits at her desk as usual and you start to relax a little.  Perhaps no major crime has been committed.  Maybe your services as a detective won’t be needed after all.  Everything is as it always is; normal-and that’s just fine with you.  You sit down at your seat, rummage through your desk…and that’s when you notice.  Once again, that “mystery” kind of feeling you woke up with this morning was right.  It is going to be that kind of day, only this time the mystery that needs solving seems to be your own.  Because you can see that something is missing from your desk.

You look through your things carefully, checking under folders and under the picture you started drawing last week but didn’t finish.  But you can’t find it.  It’s gone, vanished, disappeared.

In your reply, this is your chance to use your imagination as a word detective! Step in to the story and be part of the action.  In your post, please answer the following:

1.  Describe what is missing from your desk with enough detail so that someone else can picture it.

2.  Tell why this item is valuable to you.  Is it valuable only to you, or does it hold value for someone else?

3.  Do you hve an idea of where the item might be?  Who do you think might have it?  Is there someone else who knows about the item and who might have taken it?