Note to Teachers:

California Language Arts Standards:

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development Students apply their knowledge of word origins to determine the meaning of new words encountered in reading materials and use those words accurately.

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis Students read and respond to historically or culturally significant works of literature that reflect and enhance their studies of history and social science. They conduct in-depth analyses of recurrent patterns and themes.

Narrative Analysis 3.3 Analyze interactions between main and subordinate characters in a literary text (e.g., internal and external conflicts, motivations, relationships, influences) and explain the way those interactions affect the plot   3.4 Determine characters' traits by what the characters say about themselves in narration, dialogue, dramatic monologue, and soliloquy. 3.5 Compare works that express a universal theme and provide evidence to support the ideas expressed in each work.   3.6 Analyze and trace an author's development of time and sequence, including the use of complex literary devices (e.g., foreshadowing, flashbacks).   3.7 Recognize and understand the significance of various literary devices, including figurative language, imagery, allegory, and symbolism, and explain their appeal.

National Education Technology Standards for Students

Students will be called upon to:

• –Identify elements of a novel
• –Determine motives that drive a character•
• Discover individual contributions to the enlightenment of humanity
• Distinguish between fact and fiction in a science fiction tale
• Manipulate a Tesseract
• Describe the relationship between time and space.•
• Sequence the events in the story to determine cause/effect relationships.
• Use the steps of the writing process -- including prewriting, drafting, evaluating, revising, editing, and publishing to become skilled in various kinds of writing.

Materials and Resources:

• Search out a State Content Standard to for your grade level.
• Class copies of the Novel, A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
• Printable Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guides (PDF)
  (Click HERE if you need Acrobat Reader
• Computers with Internet access
• Use these related Internet resources help to bring the story alive.
• Use the Hypertext Webster Gateway to have students look up unfamiliar words. 
• Use Story Craft to assist students in crafting their sci-fi tale.
• Scoring Guides for project evaluations
• More teaching resources  
  • A Wrinkle in Time

Continue the Quest with... 

• A Wind in the Door
• A Swiftly Tilting Planet

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