The Westing Game
Academic Notebook
By:
Ellen Raskin
NAME: ________________________________________
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CLUE
CHARACTER CONNECTION
Chapter One--Sunset Towers
Complete Sentences
1. What was unusual about Sunset Towers?
2. Describe Barney Northrup:
Barney
Northrup
3. List the various types of people that would be the new tenants in
Sunset Towers.
1.
2.
3.
4.
4. At the end of the chapter we are told that one of the tenants was a
mistake. Which tenant do you think was a mistake? Explain your
choice.
Who Lives in Sunset Towers?
5
4D
4C
3D
3C
2D
2C
Lobby
Office
Chapter Two--Ghosts or Worse
1.
What surprised Turtle Wexler about the Westing house?
2. Compare and contrast Otis Amber and Sandy McSouthers:
Otis Amber
And
Sandy McSouthers
How are they alike?
1.
2.
3.
How are they different?
Otis Amber
Vs.
Sandy McSouthers
Physically
Personality
Role in story
Summary Statement:
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Summarizer
Write a brief summary of today’s reading. Create a summary that
discusses the main points of the reading. Minimum of 8 well developed sentences.
Helpful Hints
What are the most important things that happened?
What are the key points of what you read?
If you were writing the headline for a newspaper, what would best tell
what happened?
Discussion Director
Your job is to write down some good questions that you think your group
or partner would want to discuss. Minimum of 5 questions.
Helpful Hints
Ask the FAT questions?
FAT questions really make you think. Sometimes there is no right or
wrong answer? Sometimes you have to place yourself in the story.
A good question usually begins with: Why… How… If….
Word Finder
Your job is to find special words in today’s reading that are:
new funny different interesting strange important hard to say hard to sound out.
Minimum of 5 words.
Helpful Hints
Discuss your word(s) with your group or partner.
How does the word fit in the story?
Does anyone know what this word means?
Shall we look it up in the dictionary?
What does this word make
Connector
Your job is to find connections between the book and the world outside.
Use text to text, text to world, and text to self-connections. Minimum of 5 connections.
Helpful Hints
Your own life
Happenings at school or in the neighborhood
Similar events at other times and places
Other people or problems
Other books or stories you have read
Other writings on the same topic
Other writings by the same author
Passage Picker
Your job is to pick parts of the story that you want to read aloud to your
group because they have a special meaning to you in the following way(s). Minimum
of 4 passages. Record the page and paragraph number to discuss with your group.
Helpful Hints
A good part An interesting part
 A scary part A good description
A funny part Some very good writing
Chapter Three--Tenants In and Out
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Chapter Four--The Corpse Found
1. Describe the Westing house adventure in at least five sentences:
2. Sam's obituary mentions that he was a dedicated gamesman and a master
of chess. Why might this be significant?
3. Why were sixteen people asked to go to the south library of the
Westing mansion?
Chapter Five--Sixteen Heirs
1. Who was greeting the beneficiaries at the Westing home?
2. Why was Turtle startled when she looked in the coffin?
3. What is Denton Deere's diagnosis of Chris?
4. Why is Judge Ford surprised to see E.J. Plum in charge of the Westing
estate?
5. What did the design on Sydelle Pulaski's dress remind Turtle of right
at that moment?
Chapter Six--The Westing Will
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Seven--The Westing Game
1. What was the object of the game?
Who Pairs With Whom in the Westing Game?
Chapter Eight--The Paired Heirs
1. Describe the events of this chapter on the sequencing chart:
Chapter Nine--Lost and Found
1. Why is Lost and Found a good name for this chapter?
2. What had somebody found in the third floor balcony?
3. Why does Turtle think her mother is treating her so nicely for a
change?
4. Provide evidence from this chapter that Grace dislikes Turtle and
favors her other daughter.
5. What information does Judge Ford uncover that indicates James Hoo
would not have liked Samuel Westing?
Chapter Ten--The Long Party
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Eleven--The Meeting
1. What dilemma did the tenants face as they awoke on the third
snowbound morning?
2. What was Alice's nickname?
3. What did Chris suddenly realize as he read the note on the elevator
wall?
4. What does Theo suggest to the tenants who have gathered in the coffee
shop?
5. What confusion arises about Turtle's real name? Can you explain a
possible reason for this?
6. What question did Judge Ford write on the paper? Do you think it was
a good question?
Chapter Twelve--The First Bomb
1. Describe the incident in the kitchen in at least 3 sentences.
2. In the chart below, name the four people that have a Westing
connection according to Judge Ford.
Describe the connection as well.
Chapter Thirteen--The Second Bomb
1. Where was the bomber planning to set the next bomb?
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Fourteen--Pairs Repaired
1. Why did Angela search under the hoods of the cars in the parking lot?
2. Why was Alexander McSouthers fired from his job at the Westing
factory?
3. What voices does Grace hear coming from the kitchen?
4. Why were the tenants purchasing so many Westing Paper Products?
5. Who do you think is the most suspicious character so far?
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List three reasons:
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2.
3.
Chapter Fifteen--Fact and Gossip
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Sixteen--The Third Bomb
1. Describe the event the event at the beginning of this chapter in at
least 3 sentences.
2. Who do you think the bomber is? Explain your choice.
Chapter Seventeen--Some Solutions
1. Some of the characters developed possible solutions in this chapter.
Describe the ideas/discoveries these characters describe:
Flora
Grace and Mr. Hoo
Theo
2. Do you agree with any of these possible ideas?
Why?
Chapter Eighteen--The Trackers
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Nineteen--Odd Relatives
1.CAUSE AND EFFECT
Turtle was caught listening to a radio in
school.
Otis amber was accused of being the bomer.
Crow calls Dr. Deere the “foot butcher.”
A blank envelope ends up in Chris’s bathrobe.
2. According to the judge, what is Westing’s first mistake?
Chapter Twenty--The Confessions
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Twenty-One--The Fourth Bomb
1. What does Theo want to borrow from Turtle?
2. Describe the link between Judge Ford and Westing:
JUDGE FORD
3. What was on the reverse side of the bomber's note?
4. What does Turtle confess to the judge?
Chapter Twenty-Two--Losers, Winners
1. Briefly describe the note posted in the elevator.
2. Judge Ford has some ideas about Sam Westing.
Record her thoughts
about each below:
Westing’s former wife:
Coffin:
Westing’s appearance now: now:
now:
Chapter Twenty-Three--Strange Answers
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Twenty-Four--Wrong All Wrong
1. Since they can no longer work as partners, what does Theo suggest the
heirs do?
2. Which heir does Judge Ford believe is actually Sam Westing? WHY?
3. Using the clues provided, who does Sydelle Pulaski announce as the
murderer?
4. What happens to Sandy towards the end of this chapter?
5. Do you think that Berthe Erica Crow is telling the truth? Explain
your answer.
Chapter Twenty-Five--Westing's Wake
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Twenty-Six--Turtle's Trial
1. List 5 things we learned during the trial:
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3.
4.
5.
2. Judge Ford believed that Sam Westing had assumed two disguises.
Identify his two disguises.
Chapter Twenty-Seven--A Happy Fourth
1. What announcement does Edgar Jennings Plum make?
2. What is to happen to Sunset Towers according to Westing's "last"
document?
3. What is the significance of Turtle's statement, "Hurry up, Uncle Sam,
I can't keep up this act much longer"?
4. Which heir wins and explain how they finally solve the puzzle?
Chapter Twenty-Eight--And Then. . .
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Non- Linguistic:
Chapter Twenty-Nine--Five Years Pass
Westing Game: Who Becomes What?
Sam Westing
Berthe Erica
Crow
Otis Amber
Turtle Wexler
Angela Wexler
Grace Wexler
Dr. Jake Wexler
Mr. Hoo
Madame Hoo
Doug Hoo
Judge J.J. Ford
Chris
Theodorakis
Theo
Theodorakis
Sydelle Pulaski
Flora Baumbach
Chapter Thirty--The End
1. Who is dying at the opening of the final chapter?
2. What had happened to Judge Ford?
3. Why did Turtle lie about Otis Amber?
4. What does Eastman know about Angela that surprises Turtle?
5. What is the irony of Jake Wexler's new position?
??What do these mean??
“My life was taken by one of you."
THIRD section of the will stated that "the one who wins the windfall will be the one who finds the..."
FOURTH
"four winds" mentioned in the will
o beautiful for spacious skies
for AM
waves of grain
for purple mountain majesties
above
fruited plain
America AM___________
God shed his grace on thee
And ______N thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea
QUEEN’S SACRAFICE