The Westing Game Chpts 1-2

What is the setting of this story?

Time and place?

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who is Barney Northrup?

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What scam was Barney trying to pull on the people he invited to the Sunset Towers?

What is an example of foreshadowing from the book?

• "I have twenty people begging for this apartment, take it or leave it."

• Here it is -- the apartment you've always dreamed of, at a rent you can afford, in the newest, most luxurious building on Lake Michigan.

• Neighbor greeted neighbor ,,, and grappled with small problems behind closed doors. The big problems were yet to come.

• "Seems it all started with a bet; somebody bet them a dollar they couldn't stay in that spooky house five minutes."

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Who is Turtle Wexler?

• He is the old man that used to take care of the Westing Place.

• A little boy with a pet turtle who plays in the park next to Sunset Towers.

• A Jr. High girl with long braids who lives in Sunset Towers.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A. What unusual thing started to happen at the Westing mansion up on the hill?

B. Why was it so unusual?

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

The townspeople say that old man Westing's ​ ​ (a)   is sprawled out on a fancy ​ (b)   and his flesh is ​ (c)   off his bones....

• corpse
• Oriental Rug
• rotting

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What happened to the kids who were challenged to stay in the Westing house for five minutes?

• The boys did not make it out of the house and no one ever saw them again.

• One guy ran out screaming over the cliff and died and the other is in an asylum reciting "purple waves" over and over again.

• They moved to town and keep watch over the Westing house so that no one else trespasses.

What did Chris Theodorakis do from the windows of his apartment in the Sunset Towers?