Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Wordle II
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
"Audio Book Review"
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Monday, May 17, 2010
The Westing Game Timeline
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Author Post (Ellen Raskin)
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. New York, N.Y.: Speak, 2008. Print.
UW-Madison School of Education. Web. 22 Apr. 2010.
"Ellen Raskin Biography Dictionary of Literary Biography Biography." BookRags.com: Book Summaries, Study Guides. Web. 22 Apr. 2010.
"Ellen Raskin Scholastic.com." Teaching Resources, Children's Book Recommendations, and Student Activities Scholastic.com. Web. 22 Apr. 2010.
"Ellen Raskin - Books, Biography, Contact Information." JacketFlap.com - Children's Books, Teen Books, Writers, Authors, Illustrators, Librarians, Agents, Editors, Publicists, Publishers, and Blogs. Web. 22 Apr. 2010.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Character List and Description
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Clues
1. Madame Sun Lin Hoo, cook
Jake Wexler, Standing or sitting when not lying down.
Original Clues: Of America And God Above
2. Turtle Wexler, Witch
Flora Baumbach, Dress Maker
Original Clues: Sea Mountain Am O
Turtle sold Sandy a striped candle for his wife’s birthday (Raskin 130).
3. Christos Theodorakis, Birdwatcher
D. Denton Deere, Intern, St. Joseph Hostpital, Department of Plastic Surgery
Original Clues: For Plain Grain Shed
4. Alexander McSouthers, Doorman
J.J. Ford, Judge, Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court
Original Clues: Skies Am Shining Brother
Alexander McSouthers name has the word/direction “South” in it.
J.J. Ford use to live in the Westing House and play Chess with Mr. Westing, which is where she learned the famous move of Samuel W. Westing (The Queens Sacrifice)(Raskin 125).
5. Grace Windsor Wexler, Heiress
James Shin Hoo, Restaurateur
Original Clues: Purple Waves Fruited Sea For
Grace Wexler maiden name was Gracie Windkloppel
6. Berthe Erica Crow, Good Salvation Soup Kitchen
Otis Amber, Deliverer
Original Clues: Thy Beautiful Majesties With
Berthe Erica Crow Ex-husbands’s name was Windy Windkloppel (That means Berthe Erica Crow is actually former Mrs. Westing)
Mrs. Westing arranged Violet Westing’s marriage(Raskin 120).
7. Theo Theodorakis, Brother
Doug Hoo, First in All-State high school mile run.
Original Clues: On(No) To Thee For His N (NH3NO4=ammonium_nitrate)
8. Sydelle Pulaski, Secretary to the President
Angela Wexler, None
Original Clues: Good Hood Spacious Grace From
Miscellaneous Clues
The Queens Sacrifice (Which was a famous move that Windy Windkloppel made).
Sam Westing’s body was just a wax dummy(Raskin 129).
Samuel W. Westing got in a car crash and needed plastic surgery on his face.
July 4th
America the Beautiful
Sandy McSouthers, Julian R. Eastman and Barney Northrup and Samuel W. Westing all had Directions in their name.
Sandy McSouthers, Julian R. Eastman and Barney Northrup’s Shin was bruised.
The Clues In His Will
The First part of the will says, I returned to live among my friends and my enemies. I came home to seek my heir, aware that in doing so I faced death. And so I did.
When he wrote that he meant he would actually literally live among them as Sandy McSouthers and he would seek who his heir would be.
Works Cited.
Raskin, Ellen. The Westing Game. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Puffin, 1992. Print.
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