Beacon Documents
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More information on the Jan Stauber Grant Application and the Beacon Award Nomination may be found on their respective websites. For convenience, the forms are also available here in PDF format.
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| Jan Stauber Grant Application 2012 |
Download Application Form
(PDF / 233 KBytes / 6 pages) Download Application Form (MS Word format/334 KBytes /5 pages) |
| The Beacon Award Nomination Form |
Download Nomination Form (PDF / 207 KB / 2 pages) Download Application Form (MS Word format/209 KBytes /2 pages) |
Some of the "how to" projects on our site have been described in detail by their originators. In addition to our simplified outlines, you may find the original reports well worth reading. We have made them accessible here as PDF files that may be downloaded to read or print.
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7th Grade Essay Contest Narrative |
2008 Beacon Award Winner |
Download Narrative (PDF / 181 KBytes / 11 pages) |
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7th Grade Essay Contest Correspondence |
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Correspondence (PDF / 235 KB / 19 pages) |
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7th Grade Essay
Contest Booklet |
The Speckled Band |
Download Booklet (PDF / 475 KB / 56 pages) |
The By-laws and Minutes of the Annual Meetings of the Beacon Society
| Beacon Society By-laws |
Download document (PDF / 266 KBytes / 5 pages) |
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Minutes of the Annual Meetings 2011-2003 |
Download document (PDF / 489 KBytes / 13 pages) |
A presentation about the Beacon Society given at Harvard College in 2009 at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sesquicentennial Assessment
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Children Yet Unborn (How We Envy Them!)
TEACHING CONAN DOYLE |
Download document (PDF / 901 KBytes / 10 pages) |
"Becoming Sherlock Holmes": In addition to the information on our "Being Sherlock" page, some Sherlock Holmes impersonators share their tips for "walking the walk and talking the talk," as they introduce Mr. Holmes to various audiences.
| Coppola: Being Sherlock (Well, Almost) |
Download Article (PDF / 386 KB / 2 pages) |
| Kovacic: Becoming Mr. Holmes |
Download Article (PDF / 437 KB / 3 pages) |
| Sherwood: Finding Your Inner Sherlock |
Download Article (PDF / 357 KB / 4 pages) |
Some Sherlockian groups enjoy doing staged readings (also called "Readers' Theater" or "Radio Plays") of stories adapted from the Canon. Bob Robinson shares several favorite scripts of the Hansom Wheels of South Carolina and Marino Alvarez of the Nashville Scholars offers The Red-headed League. (Note that some plays have extra characters to accommodate additional readers.)
| The Speckled Band |
Download Script (PDF / 175 KB / 20 pages) |
| The Illustrious Client |
Download Script (PDF / 120 KB / 17 pages) |
| The Copper Beeches |
Download Script (PDF / 112 KB / 16 pages) |
| The Red-headed League |
Download Script (PDF / 138 KB / 6 pages) |
English teachers may enjoy using Sherlock Holmes stories to teach grammar. Beacon member Karen Murdock has collected examples of the Figures of Speech used in the Canon.
| FIGURES of SPEECH in SILVER BLAZE |
Download document (PDF / 608 KBytes / 21 pages) |
| FIGURES of SPEECH in A SCANDAL in BOHEMIA |
Download document (PDF / 606 KBytes / 34 pages) |
Sherlockian Marino C. Alvarez, professor of Education at Tennessee State University, devised a Résumé for Sherlock Holmes.
| SHERLOCK HOLMES' RÉSUMÉ |
Download document (PDF / 374 KBytes / 3 pages) |