A Wrinkle in Time - Chapter 1 Excerpt

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In Chapter 1, Mrs. Whatsit visits the Murry home for the first time.

What inference can be made about Mrs. Whatsit at this point in the story?

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She can tell what people are thinking.

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What quote lets us know that Mrs. Whatsit can tell what people are thinking?

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'The tesseract—” Mrs. Murry whispered. 'What did she mean? How could she have known?'”

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Why is Meg most upset with Mr. Jenkins? 

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He asks Meg to accept the fact that Mr. Murry will not return.

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Which quote from the text tells us why Meg was upset?

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“‘When she tells me that my father isn’t coming home, I’ll believe it. As long as she says Father is coming home, then I’ll believe that.’”

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In Chapter 2, Meg gets in trouble because of the way she behaves in the classroom. She makes things worse for herself by refusing to take responsibility for her own actions and blaming others. 

How does this develop a theme that repeats throughout the story?

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It shows that people cannot expect others to solve their problems for them.

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Read the excerpt from Chapter 3.

“She’s a little one-sided, I grant you,” Mrs. Murry said, “though I blame her father and myself for that. She still enjoys playing with her dolls’ house though.”

“Mother!” Meg shrieked in agony.

With a sudden enthusiastic gesture Calvin flung his arms out wide, as though he were embracing Mega and her mother, the whole house. “How did all this happen? Isn’t it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone anymore! Do you realize what that means to me?”

“But you’re good at basketball and things,” Meg protested. “You’re good in school. Everybody likes you.”

“For all the most unimportant reasons,” Calvin said. “There hasn’t been anybody, anybody in the world that I could talk to. Sure, I can function on the same level as everybody else, I can hold myself down, but it isn’t me.”

What theme is developed in the excerpt and repeated later in the story?

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  Hiding one's true self to conform and to fit in often leads to unhappiness.

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How are Meg and Charles Wallace alike?

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They are misunderstood by most of the people around them.

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How do you describe Tessering?

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no light or sound and a feeling of nothingness

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How do you describe Uriel?

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Warmth and golden light and a sense of peace

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What is the meaning of metamorphose?

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becoming something different