Co-Beacon Award Winner 2007

• "As a fan of the Canon, I was surprised to learn that there is very little published about how to integrate Doyle’s work into middle and high school literature classrooms as a unit of study. There are many articles written in education journals about other literary characters and authors, but Doyle's is noticeably missing, even though his character has been imitated by other authors.
• "I made the decision to expose my seventh grade honor students to Arthur Conan Doyle’s work throughout the 2004-2005 school year when my school adopted the America’s Choice school model which requires schools to choose an author to study…
• "Doyle’s work…offered the opportunity for an in-depth study of a literary character that would challenge and enhance their development as readers and writers and provide the opportunity for exposure to numerous works by one author.
• "This unit demonstrates how middle and high school teachers can use Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes as an effective unit of study in the English literature classroom. It provides lesson plans that I used during the 2004-2005 school year in my seventh grade honors language arts class."

Below is a summary of the 27 lesson plans and 18 quizzes to be found on Burkhart's website.