CONFIDENTIAL • DETECTIVE MISSION #6B
SAVE
SAVE
MARCEL!
The curse is reaching its final victim. We have one chance.
Emergency mission: use the evidence, decode Seraphina's vision, make the right choice and break the Lefleur curse before it is too late.
URGENT • MARCEL IN DANGER
Four facts. One final victim.
Reveal the case file from the earliest clue to today.
1720s
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Jean-Baptiste Lefleur was a wealthy slave owner. He killed three enslaved people.
1820
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The Lefleur curse began: one young family member would die every 100 years.
1920
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A second young member of the Lefleur family died mysteriously.
TODAY
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Marcel is the last victim. If the curse is not broken, he will die.
Why does Louisiana's past matter?
Source: textbook p. 38 — Slave Trade, Africa to the Americas, 1650–1860.
What does this map remind us about Louisiana's history?
African men, women and children were forcibly transported to the Americas. They brought languages, beliefs, music and traditions with them. These histories help us understand the Louisiana context of the story.
Seraphina's Vision
1st viewing:
Where is Marcel? What is happening?
Where is Marcel? What is happening?
2nd viewing:
What does Seraphina manage to take from the priest's mind?
What does Seraphina manage to take from the priest's mind?
Marcel is in a voodoo sanctuary in the bayou. He is lying on an altar while a priest performs a ritual. Seraphina enters the priest's mind and snatches three clues before the connection is cut.
Decode the three clues
Use Seraphina's vision and the workbook clues. Do not build the final solution until every clue makes sense.
CLUE 1 • LOVE
What does the drawing suggest?
The kiss represents love stronger than death. Rose must be part of the ritual.
CLUE 2 • VEVÉ
Which divinity matches Gran Phina's sketch?
Maman Brigitte is invoked to heal people close to death or affected by curses.
CLUE 3 • POTION
“A potion like death,
copy death,
Drink.”
copy death,
Drink.”
What must Marcel do?
Marcel must drink a potion that imitates death. He looks dead, but he does not die.
LOVE • MAMAN BRIGITTE • A POTION THAT COPIES DEATH
One wrong decision could kill Marcel.
Use the three decoded clues. Choose one ending — but you will not know if it is correct until Video 09.
Did we save Marcel?
Do not reveal the correct choice before watching the ending.
Watch carefully:
Who invokes the divinity? What is Marcel given? Who kisses him?
Who invokes the divinity? What is Marcel given? Who kisses him?
Final question:
Does Marcel survive?
Does Marcel survive?
The curse reaches its end...
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Did our plan work?
MARCEL IS ALIVE!
Correct ending: Choice 2.
Rose invokes Maman Brigitte, gives Marcel the potion prepared by Seraphina and kisses him.
Rose invokes Maman Brigitte, gives Marcel the potion prepared by Seraphina and kisses him.
Final evidence recap
Click each sentence to reveal it. What do they have in common?
How was Marcel saved?
Build the class summary, then reveal the final version.
Seraphina prepared a potion that copied death. Maman Brigitte was invoked by Rose.
Marcel was given the potion and was kissed by Rose. The curse was broken and Marcel was saved.
EXIT TICKET
In one sentence:
What were the three essential elements needed to save Marcel?
Love + Maman Brigitte + a potion that copied death.
CASE CLOSED.
The Lefleur curse is over.
The Lefleur curse is over.