A Wrinkle in Time Lesson Plan

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Kind of Activity:

Collaborative Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to use the text to speculate on where Mr. Murry might be

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.6.1; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.5

Structure:

Meg's father has been missing for more than a year; these early chapters reveal how upsetting it is to her. Discuss this with the students: where do the members of Meg's community think her father is? Where does Meg believe that her father is? What does her mother think?

Divide students into groups of three. Each group should write a story that describes where they believe Mr. Murry is, and what he has done...