A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time is a well rounded science fiction fantasy novel about thirteen-year-old Meg Murry's classmates and teachers see her as a troublesome and stubborn student. Her family knows that she is emotionally immature but also sees her capable of doing great things. The family includes her beautiful scientist mother, her missing scientist father, her athletic 10-year-old twin brothers, Sandy and Dennys; and her five-year-old brother Charles Wallace Murry, a child prodigy genius who can sometimes read Meg's mind.  Throughout the book, amazing things happen, taking Meg on a journey to find her missing father.  This book can strike a nerve for anyone with missing parents but can also help them to open their minds to the possibilities of science and time.  Other books by this author are A Window in the Door and A Swiftly Tilting Planet, all sequels to her most profound novel A Wrinkle in Time.



Classroom Activities:

1.) Students can create their own fantasy world much like the one in the book and make the world come to life by building 3D models of the world.  They can set up the models and parents and friends can come to an open house to view the models as studnets explain the worlds they have created.

2.) Students can read the novel and then watch either the 2003 film adaptation or the new 2018 film adaptation and then put on a short play of the novel for family and friends.  Have students audtition for the cast as well as coming together to create the props.

Goals:

• Students will learn how to work together to bring life to an idea.
• Studnets will learn to use their imaginations to create something they believe in their own minds is fascinating.

Bibliography:

Waggaman, L., Clowes, J., & LEngle, M. (1987). A Wrinkle in Time. Christiansburg, VA: Montgomery County Public Schools.