A Wrinkle in Time Unit Plan - Novel Study Reading Unit - Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time Unit Plan - Novel Study Reading Unit includes everything you need to teach A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle With more than 265+ pages and slides of content, there will be absolutely no prep required. This novel unit includes eye-catching presentation slides, print-ready assignments, questions, vocabulary, quizzes, interactive class activities, and more!
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Included in The A Wrinkle in Time Unit Plan:
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Introductory Presentation: Start the A Wrinkle in Time unit plan with this interactive PowerPoint presentation that includes pre-reading discussion questions, an interactive class activity, a biography of Rodman Philbrick, a fun review quiz, novel context and reception, and background context on the novel.
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Summary Cards: These summary cards are an excellent classroom reference for both teacher and student. These printable chapter summary cards outline the most important plot moments from A Wrinkle in Time organized by chapter sets. Simply print and cut out the cards, and you have a resource available that can be used as a tool for struggling readers, as a quick way to find plot moments, or as a tool to find text evidence during essay writing.
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time the Mighty Quizzes: Included are six quizzes to assess student comprehension of the novel. Each quiz includes five multiple-choice questions and two quotes that students must respond to by sharing context. For each quote, students are required to explain what is happening at that point in the plot with any relevant information. Answer keys are included.
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Vocabulary Booklet and Slides: Help students learn new vocabulary words from the novel during your A Wrinkle in Time unit plan with this ready-to-use resource. This resource helps students hone their skills in using context clues to determine the meaning of new words as they are used within A Wrinkle in Time. Included is a vocabulary booklet organized by chapter sets where students read the new word in a quote from the novel and infer its meaning. Then, they look up the definition to see if they were correct. Presentation slides are included for easy class review or grading.
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Questions and Answers: This resource includes novel reading questions pages organized by chapters that include comprehension, analysis, and connections questions. It also includes a presentation to review the answers with students. The answers are detailed and include text evidence for support.
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Analysis Notes: This A Wrinkle in Time unit plan also includes a 32-slide PowerPoint presentation that shares some of the most important literary elements in A Wrinkle in Time organized by chapter set. The notes address characterization, setting theme, tone, point of view, conflict, context, allusion, symbolism, suspense, and more. Your students will have a deeper understanding of the novel after you use this resource.
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Writing Prompts - Video Clips: Help your students make connections to the novel with these video journals. Students will watch a short video clip on YouTube that relates to a topic, theme, or idea presented in the novel. A related journal prompt is included and students share their thoughts and ideas in writing. The videos are not specific to the novel, but they relate in a way that allows students to make a text-to-self or text-to-world connection. YouTube is required & teachers should always preview the videos to make sure they are appropriate for their particular students.
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Figurative Language: Cover common figurative language and literary devices after reading A Wrinkle in Time! This resource includes six figurative language assignments with examples from the novel. Students read the examples and determine what figurative language is being used.
This A Wrinkle in Time Unit Plan also includes creative assignments and activities for each chapter set. You can learn more about what's included below:
Pre-Reading Activity:
➡️ First Lines Pre-Reading Activity: Start your novel study by examining the first lines of novels. This novel has a classic first line, "It was a dark and stormy night." Students will examine famous first lines in a variety of texts and consider how the first line of a novel can reveal more than they would think!
Chapters 1-2
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Mind Reader Activity: In this activity, students will empathize with Meg not understanding how Charles has supernatural abilities. You'll trick your students into believing one of your students is a mind-reader in this highly engaging activity by getting one of your students in on the trick!
Chapters 3-4
➡️ Changing Education Paradigms Activity: In chapter three, Meg helps Calvin with his homework and shares her frustrations with the education system. Students will use this activity to think critically about their own education and the system they are currently in by watching a video and responding to important quotes from it. They will also work in groups to consider what changes the education system could make.
Chapters 5-6
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Social Media Allusions: This activity will help students better understand the allusions to famous people made in chapter 5 by creating a social media page for one of them. They will also learn about more modern and diverse change-makers by doing some external research and creating a social media page for that person.
➡️ Building a Paper or Pipe Cleaner Tesseract: Make your A Wrinkle in Time novel study hands-on by building a tesseract. The characters are able to travel to a different dimension by tessering. A tesseract is a cube in four-dimensional space. Have your students build their own tesseract with this hands-on activity (two options provided).
➡️ Greetings from Camazotz Manual & Postcard: In chapter 6, Charles quotes from the manual for the planet of Camazotz. Students will create one page of the manual and also send a postcard home from the planet!
➡️ The Happy Medium Crystal Ball Assignment: Students imagine that The Happy Medium is able to see their future in her crystal ball. They will draw and write about what that future looks like.
➡️ A Wrinkle in Time Awareness Campaign: The Happy Medium does not want to look at Earth because she doesn’t want to look at unpleasant things when there are so many positive things to look at. Mrs. Which responds by saying, “There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.” Students will create an awareness campaign to make a change in their world.
Chapters 7-8
➡️ Wrinkled Writing: In chapter 7, the children enjoy a beautiful turkey dinner, and L’Engle uses descriptive language and imagery to describe some of the food. Students will do the same using the "wrinkled writing" method where one student starts the writing focusing on one sense. Then, they crumple the paper into a ball (wrinkling it) and tesser it to the front of the room! Then, another student picks it up and continues with the next sense. Detailed instructions are provided in the purchase.
Chapters 9-10
➡️ Individuality Quilt: In chapter 9, Charles discusses how there is equality on Camazotz because everybody is exactly alike. Meg realizes in this statement that like and equal are not the same things at all. She realizes that differences are important and that equality is celebrating those differences. Students will celebrate their own differences by creating an image and written square to contribute to a classroom paper quilt!
Chapters 11-12
➡️ Describing Color Activity: In chapter 11, Meg attempts to describe light to Aunt Beast, but she finds it challenging because sight does not exist on this planet. Students will imagine that they live in a black-and-white world and are the ONLY person who can see color. They will try to describe the primary colors to try to get their fellow citizens to understand.
➡️ Writing a Sonnet: In chapter 12, Mrs. Whatsit explains the importance of individual freedom by saying that life is like a sonnet. Students will have a chance to write their own sonnet in this fun writing activity!
Post-Reading
➡️ Creating a New Planet Project: Close out your A Wrinkle in Time novel study with this fun project. Students will imagine that instead of going immediately back to Earth, the characters accidentally tesser to one more planet. They will be responsible for designing and creating this planet from scratch!
➡️ Movie Novel Comparison: Show students the film version of the novel! Students will find differences between the film version and the written version of the novel.
➡️ Essay Topics & Graphic Organizers: Students will write a formal essay with the provided topics and organizers.