Teaching The Westing Game | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Sunset Towers: Chapter 1 Foreshadowing is a powerful element of fiction. Readers see an example of this in Chapter 1 when the Westing Mansion is shown as having some mysterious elements. Also, the fact that Sunset Towers has no towers and that it faces East, not West, indicates that things may not be as we might anticipate. Also, the fact that potential...
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