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A Wrinkle in Time Reading Group

‍1. Discussion Director/Facilitator (Rob E.)
How would you feel if you were in a hurricane? What is a tesseract? What type of dog was Fortinbras? What do you think will happen later? What type of person was Meg?

‍‍‍2. Connector (Angela H.)
Meg is the eldest child, like me. Meg has glasses and braces. She has a weird yet smart younger brother (Charles Wallace). Meg sleeps in the highest room in the house, like me.

‍‍‍4. Vocabulary Enricher (Peter M.)

 * ====‍‍‍‍‍Word selected and page # where found:==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Definition based on context -- use of dictionary is encouraged!==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Reason word was selected:==== ||
 * gaily page # 40 || gaily- in a merry or lively way. || This word made me want to find out what it meant. ||
 * wraithlike page # 11 || wraithlike- a bodyless appearance. || This word sounded awesome. ||
 * postmistress page # 31 || postmistress- a woman who runs a post office. || This word was pretty familiar to me. ||
 * tesseract page # 26 || tesseract- a wrinkle in time. || This word sounded really cool. ||
 * scudded page # 11 || scudded- clouds,spray,or mist driven by the wind; a driving shower or gust of wind. || This word does look like it should be considered with what it means. ||

‍‍‍5. Character Captain (Bianca O.)
1. Meg is nervous. "Wrapped in her quilt Meg shook, when the thunder boomed in the night." 2. Charles Wallace is smart. "Compulstion means constraint, oblagation, and one who is compelled." 3 Mrs.Murry is polite. " If there is one tomato left I would like Meg to have it, on her sandwich I will just have liverwurst and lettuce. 4. Ms.Whatsit is mysterious. " There is such thing as a tesseract, then she was out of the house." 5. Calvin is tall. "Calvin is tall skinny boy."

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‍‍‍‍‍**Common Character Traits: A List of Adjectives**======
 * adventurous || awesome || artistic || athletic || active ||
 * beautiful || brave || bold || bossy || cheerful ||
 * curious || creative || courageous || considerate || daring ||
 * impulsive || dainty || dangerous || exciting || entertaining ||
 * energetic || funny || a fighter || friendly || fun-loving ||
 * gentle || generous || happy || humble || hostile ||
 * honest || intelligent || independent || inventive || a leader ||
 * lazy || messy || mischievous || mean || neat ||
 * nasty || nice || nosy || open || poor ||
 * proud || pretty || quiet || rich || respectful ||
 * rad || sad || sloppy || serious || successful ||
 * shy || short || smart || studious || selfish ||
 * simple || tall || trustworthy || thoughtful || unselfish ||
 * warm || witty || wild || wonderful || silly ||
 * melancholy || mellow || aimless || loud || prudent ||
 * iconoclastic || penurious || belligerent || loyal || visionary ||

‍‍‍6. Figurative Language Finder (Abigail S.)
In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old pathwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind. The author was trying to say that the wind is blowing so hard, the trees are about to fall over. Personification

Every few moments the moon ripped through the clouds. The author meant that the moon could be seen through the clouds. Idiom

Why do you always have to act like such a baby? The author was basically asking why she was so sensitive? Simile

Good afternoon Ma'am. I didn't quite catch your name. The author is trying to say that Calvin didn't really know her name. Idiom

She could hear the wind howling in the chimneys. the author meant that the wind was so loud, she could hear through the chimneys. Personification

‍1. Discussion Director/Facilitator
How do you think Meg felt when Calvin told her he was glad they were friends? Do you think Calvin really wants just stew for dinner? Do you think Hinky, Calvin's brother will remember to tell his mom that Calvin will be home late? What do you think the symbols in Ch.4 mean? What do you think Mrs.Whatsit turned into?

‍‍‍2. Connector
Meg has a protective dog and I have a protective dog. Meg is smart and I am smart too. In the story Meg felt like her legs were asleep and one time my legs fell asleep. Charles walks his dog and I walk my dog. Charles found a spooky house and once I found a spooky house.

‍‍‍4. Vocabulary Enricher

 * ====‍‍‍‍‍Word selected and page # where found:==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Definition based on context -- use of dictionary is encouraged!==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Reason word was selected:==== ||
 * pg.42 || Somber:so shaded as to be dark and glomy || Name of a road ||
 * pg.43 || Judiciously:to form an opinion after careful consideration || heard of it ||
 * pg.43 || Indignant:filled with or expressing || also heard of it ||
 * pg.47 || Leafing:turning the pages of a book || sounded cool ||
 * pg.47 || Dreadfully:causing dread or awe || heard it in a book ||

‍‍‍5. Character Captain
1.Calvin is curious. "Who is this" 2.Meg is intelligent. "All you have to remember is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodicdecimal fraction." 3.Mrs.Who is clever. "//Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis."// Which means, "Horace. To take action little, less to words inclined." 4.Charles Wallace was annoyed. "I wish you'd stop quoting!" In an annoyed way. 5.Mrs.Whatsit was commanding. "Watch!" In a commanding way.

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‍‍‍‍‍**Common Character Traits: A List of Adjectives**======
 * adventurous || awesome || artistic || athletic || active ||
 * beautiful || brave || bold || bossy || cheerful ||
 * curious || creative || courageous || considerate || daring ||
 * impulsive || dainty || dangerous || exciting || entertaining ||
 * energetic || funny || a fighter || friendly || fun-loving ||
 * gentle || generous || happy || humble || hostile ||
 * honest || intelligent || independent || inventive || a leader ||
 * lazy || messy || mischievous || mean || neat ||
 * nasty || nice || nosy || open || poor ||
 * proud || pretty || quiet || rich || respectful ||
 * rad || sad || sloppy || serious || successful ||
 * shy || short || smart || studious || selfish ||
 * simple || tall || trustworthy || thoughtful || unselfish ||
 * warm || witty || wild || wonderful || silly ||
 * melancholy || mellow || aimless || loud || prudent ||
 * iconoclastic || penurious || belligerent || loyal || visionary ||

‍‍‍6. Figurative Language Finder
1. Meg put up a mental block. Meg did not actually put up a block, it is an idiom. 2. I feel like I have just been born. Calvin was not actually born just then, it is a simile. 3. You have dreamboat eyes. Calin means Meg has beautiful eyes, it is an idiom. 4. Did the moon just extinguish like a candle? The got a shadow over it, it is a simile. 5. It was like the shadow had reached down and touched their vocies, then they were silent. the shadow did not actually touch them, it's a simile.

‍1. Discussion Director/Facilitator
1. In chapter 6 why do you think Calvin hesitated before kissing the Medium good-bye? 2. In chapter 5 when Meg was getting squished in the second demension, the book said she was scared would you feel the same, and why? 3. In chapter 6 Meg said that the planet Camazotz looked just like Earth, and there were the same trees, seasons, Etc. Why do you think it has the same looks but is a different planet. Is it a parallel univirse, or a parallel plant? 4. In chapter 6 what do you think the hint Ms.Who gave Calvin means? 5. In chapter 6 when Meg, Calvin, and Charles went into town and they saw everyone doing the same things simultaneously how did they feel scared, counfuse, Etc. How would you feel?

‍‍‍2. Connector
1. Meg Doesn't pick up things very quickly. Neither do I. 2. She gets nervous a lot just like I do. 3. Meg needs people to explain things more than once to her. So do I. 4. She has a friend named Calvin. I have one too that I met at summer camp. 5. When somebody confronts her she gets courage in her. So do I.

‍‍‍4. Vocabulary Enricher

 * ====‍‍‍‍‍Word selected and page # where found:==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Definition based on context -- use of dictionary is encouraged!==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Reason word was selected:==== ||
 * Rapt || Showing complete attention. || It sounded cool. ||
 * Mauve || A pale bluish purple || I wasn't sure what it meant ||
 * Facet || A small defineable aspect || It sounded cool ||
 * Cross || Angry || I didn't know what it meant ||
 * Propose || To suggest || I just liked the way it sounded. ||

‍‍‍5. Character Captain
1.Meg is shy because in the story she has very little friends. 2.Calvin is tall because in the story he said he is very tall. 3.Mrs.Witch is prudent because she is always careful. 4.Charles Wallace is smart because in the story he is good at figuring things out that are hard for Meg. 5.Ms.Who is rad because she can speak different languages like spanish. ‍‍‍‍‍**Common Character Traits: A List of Adjectives**
 * adventurous || awesome || artistic || athletic || active ||
 * beautiful || brave || bold || bossy || cheerful ||
 * curious || creative || courageous || considerate || daring ||
 * impulsive || dainty || dangerous || exciting || entertaining ||
 * energetic || funny || a fighter || friendly || fun-loving ||
 * gentle || generous || happy || humble || hostile ||
 * honest || intelligent || independent || inventive || a leader ||
 * lazy || messy || mischievous || mean || neat ||
 * nasty || nice || nosy || open || poor ||
 * proud || pretty || quiet || rich || respectful ||
 * rad || sad || sloppy || serious || successful ||
 * shy || short || smart || studious || selfish ||
 * simple || tall || trustworthy || thoughtful || unselfish ||
 * warm || witty || wild || wonderful || silly ||
 * melancholy || mellow || aimless || loud || prudent ||
 * iconoclastic || penurious || belligerent || loyal || visionary ||

‍‍‍6. Figurative Language Finder
1. "She's really terribly nice to us younger ones." She meant Mrs. Which is really nice to Mrs. Whatsit and the others. Medaphor 2."Throught the haze Meg could make out the familiar outlines of continents like pictures in her Social Studies books." She means Meg could see the outside of the continents. 3. "I hate it when she gets cross." She ment that she does not like when Mrs. Which is always right. 4. "How do we propose to find them?" She meant how are we going to find the children. 5. "He is like the white rabbit." Meg meant that Calvin is as smart as the rabbit from **//Alice in Wonderland//**.

‍1. Discussion Director/Facilitator
1. What exactly is the //Black Thing//? 2. Why do you think the man in ch. 7 was talking about reprocessing? 3. Why do you think the man with red eyes said that he was waiting for the children? 4. Why do you think there was a red light above the man with red eyes? 5. How do you think Charles Walace was hypnotized by the man with red eyes?

‍‍‍2. Connector
1. When Meg said they should stick together when going in the building with the man with the red eyes. I once had two friends and we had to stick together. 2. When the man that reported them jerked up like he had been sitting down for a while. That happened to me I was sitting for 5 hours on the trip to Virgina. 3. When Meg,Charles, and Calvin went up to the white wall and it looked as if you could walk through it, but it was cold, and solid. I felt that before. 4. When they saw everyman wearing the same suit but had different features. I saw that at a confrence. 5. When Meg,Calvin,and Charles smelled the food the man with the red eyes gave them, it smelled good and tasted good but it was really bad. Tat happened to me.

‍‍‍4. Vocabulary Enricher

 * ====‍‍‍‍‍Word selected and page # where found:==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Definition based on context -- use of dictionary is encouraged!==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Reason word was selected:==== ||
 * Proclaim 115 || To annouce publicly. || I never really heard it a lot. ||
 * Mutterd 110 || Angrly. || I never heard it. ||
 * Rage 125 || Out of control. || It was cool. ||
 * Primitive 127 || Of or relating basic of original. || I never heard of it. ||
 * Corridor 127 || Passage way. || It was cool. ||

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‍‍‍‍‍**Common Character Traits: A List of Adjectives**====== Charles Wallace: Sarcastic: Random person in CENTERAL Centeral Intelligence:(unimportant info)...danger of jammed minds. Charles: Strawberry jam or rasberry? Meg: A Fighter: She fought off the man with red eyes. Meg: Curious: She kept wondering who IT was. Charles: Impulsive: He chose to go into the man with the red eyes. Calvin: Athletic: He tackled Charles.
 * adventurous || awesome || artistic || athletic || active ||
 * beautiful || brave || bold || bossy || cheerful ||
 * curious || creative || courageous || considerate || daring ||
 * impulsive || dainty || dangerous || exciting || entertaining ||
 * energetic || funny || a fighter || friendly || fun-loving ||
 * gentle || generous || happy || humble || hostile ||
 * honest || intelligent || independent || inventive || a leader ||
 * lazy || messy || mischievous || mean || neat ||
 * nasty || nice || nosy || open || poor ||
 * proud || pretty || quiet || rich || respectful ||
 * rad || sad || sloppy || serious || successful ||
 * shy || short || smart || studious || selfish ||
 * simple || tall || trustworthy || thoughtful || unselfish ||
 * warm || witty || wild || wonderful || silly ||
 * melancholy || mellow || aimless || loud || prudent ||
 * iconoclastic || penurious || belligerent || loyal || visionary ||

‍‍‍6. Figurative Language Finder
1.All the people in the building look the same.:metaphore 2.After they had what seemed like miles.:simile 3.Meg looked at the fiery eyes.:simile 4.Charles' cold,vacant eyes.:simile 5.Meg felt as though being touched by something slimy and horrible.:metaphore

‍1. Discussion Director/Facilitator
1.What is IT? 2.Does meg find her father? 3.What is meg's father in? 4.What is Mrs.Who's glasses for? 5.Does meg free Charles Wallace?

‍‍‍2. Connector
1.Meg crashed into a transparent wall, and one time I crashed into glass which is transparent. 2.Meg could see her father, but he couldn't see her. Once when I was little my dad went into oneway glass and couldn't see me but I could see him. 3.Meg pulled at her fathers sleave to make him follow her. Once I pulled at my fathers sleave to make him follow me to a ride at the GDS fair. 4.Meg and the others turned a corner and saw a dome shapes building with the IT probably waiting for them. Once me and my family turned a corner and saw a dome shaped building with a rollar coaster inside. 5.Megs father grasped her arm and tightened and meg went to hurt her father. One time my father grabbed my arm and tightened hard and I went to punch him.

‍‍‍4. Vocabulary Enricher

 * ====‍‍‍‍‍Word selected and page # where found:==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Definition based on context -- use of dictionary is encouraged!==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Reason word was selected:==== ||
 * sniggered || To snicker || Because I never heard of the word before ||
 * placidly || Peaceful inturuption || Because it sounded like a cool word ||
 * distorting || To tell in a misleading way || I wanted to find out what it meant ||
 * utterly || To complete in extend || I heard the word before but I didn't know what it meant ||
 * snicker || To give a small and often mean or sly laugh || I didn't know what it meant but I heard the being said before ||

‍‍‍5. Character Captain
The Man With Red Eyes is hostile because he has hypnosis eyes. Meg is brave because it says that she challenged The Man With Red Eyes over Chales Wallace. Charles Wallce was simple because he was in a trance. Meg is shy because she has no friends. Meg was loud was loud because she yelled at The Man With Red Eyes.

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‍‍‍‍‍**Common Character Traits: A List of Adjectives**======
 * adventurous || awesome || artistic || athletic || active ||
 * beautiful || brave || bold || bossy || cheerful ||
 * curious || creative || courageous || considerate || daring ||
 * impulsive || dainty || dangerous || exciting || entertaining ||
 * energetic || funny || a fighter || friendly || fun-loving ||
 * gentle || generous || happy || humble || hostile ||
 * honest || intelligent || independent || inventive || a leader ||
 * lazy || messy || mischievous || mean || neat ||
 * nasty || nice || nosy || open || poor ||
 * proud || pretty || quiet || rich || respectful ||
 * rad || sad || sloppy || serious || successful ||
 * shy || short || smart || studious || selfish ||
 * simple || tall || trustworthy || thoughtful || unselfish ||
 * warm || witty || wild || wonderful || silly ||
 * melancholy || mellow || aimless || loud || prudent ||
 * iconoclastic || penurious || belligerent || loyal || visionary ||

‍‍‍6. Figurative Language Finder
Put your arms around my neck. Idiom Hold his neck. She could breath without gasping like a beached fish. Beached fish gasp, and Meg could breath without gasping. Simile It's translusent, like glass. Both glass and the wall are translusent. simile We're children playing with dynamite. metaphor We are doing something potentially dangerous.

...as if she took a massive dose of novocain at the dentist. Her lips were numb. simile

‍1. Discussion Director/Facilitator
Do you think L'engle was trying to send a message with this book? How did this book match up with your prediction? What did you think "The Foolish and the Weak" meant? Who did you think "Aunt Beast" meant? What do you think Mrs. Who's quote meant?

‍‍‍2. Connector
1.Meg has nicknames and so do I. 2.Meg was shudderd with terror and once I was too. 3.Meg was trembling with fear and I was too. 4.Meg was scared and so was I. 5.Meg was excited and I was too.

‍‍‍4. Vocabulary Enricher

 * ====‍‍‍‍‍Word selected and page # where found:==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Definition based on context -- use of dictionary is encouraged!==== || ====‍‍‍‍‍Reason word was selected:==== ||
 * Trepidation 161 || A feeling of fear or agitation about something that is going to happen. || I don't know it. ||
 * Opaque 164 || Not letting light through. || I don't know it. ||
 * Spasm 161 || A sudden act of uncontrolled movements. || It is a funny word. ||
 * Distraught 171 || Disturbed with doubt or painful feelings. || I don't know it. ||
 * Vestige 186 || A trace, mark, or visible sign left by something. || I don't know it. ||

‍‍‍5. Character Captain
Calvin-gentle- When he told Meg "He doesn't see us" he said it gently. Meg-quiet- In the story she whispered "Oh father". Charles Wallace-happy- It said in the story that he laughed again. Meg-sickly- In the story she fely like she was going to be sick and throw up. Calvin-caring- He caught Meg when she fell back.

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‍‍‍‍‍**Common Character Traits: A List of Adjectives**======
 * adventurous || awesome || artistic || athletic || active ||
 * beautiful || brave || bold || bossy || cheerful ||
 * curious || creative || courageous || considerate || daring ||
 * impulsive || dainty || dangerous || exciting || entertaining ||
 * energetic || funny || a fighter || friendly || fun-loving ||
 * gentle || generous || happy || humble || hostile ||
 * honest || intelligent || independent || inventive || a leader ||
 * lazy || messy || mischievous || mean || neat ||
 * nasty || nice || nosy || open || poor ||
 * proud || pretty || quiet || rich || respectful ||
 * rad || sad || sloppy || serious || successful ||
 * shy || short || smart || studious || selfish ||
 * simple || tall || trustworthy || thoughtful || unselfish ||
 * warm || witty || wild || wonderful || silly ||
 * melancholy || mellow || aimless || loud || prudent ||
 * iconoclastic || penurious || belligerent || loyal || visionary ||

‍‍‍6. Figurative Language Finder
Meg despite herself felt a feeling of security. Personifacation She hade to do something safe.

It had essence and structure. Metaphor It was a good song.

It supported Meg more then the beast's arms. Personifacation It was a good song.

Such a wave of despondesy came over Meg. idiom She was dissapointed.

Meg felt her heart pounding with hope. idiom She felt like she could find Chales Wallace.