Lesson 25: The Westing Game

Find one word from the text that you can’t understand. Write the word. Use context clues to guess the meaning and write your guess down. Check the definition in a dictionary. Put a check next to the definition if you are correct. Fix the definition if you need to add more or change it. Reread the sentence from the book that has the word in it. Write the word in a new sentence.

Using the knowledge you gained from previous chapters predict who you think the murderer is. Give your evidence as a list of the facts that you know from the story so far and the opinions that you have that are not yet proven.