May+6th

** Due Date: Monday, May 9th **
 * Name_ **

**// A WRINKLE IN TIME //** ** - by Madeleine L'Engle ** CHAPTER 3 - "Mrs. Which" ** VOCABULARY **


 * shriek || plaintively || sullen || enthusiastic ||
 * decipher || essence || suspension || velocity || dubiously judicious ||

ll ** Look up the definition of each word, write out the part of speech and use the word correctly in a sentence. **

** Answer each question with complete sentences using part of each question in each answer. **

1. Calvin compares his family with Meg’s family. a) How does Calvin feel about his own family? b) How does he feel about Meg’s family? c) Use a Venn Diagram compare & contrast Calvin’s mother and Meg’s Mother. 2. What do you think Calvin means when he says, "Isn’t this wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born. I’m not alone anymore!"   3. Why is Mrs. Murry upset?  4. List three ways in which Charles Wallace is different from most five  year old boys.  a)  b)  c)  5. What do we learn about Meg’s father in this chapter? 6. How does Calvin make Meg stop crying and feeling sorry for herself? 7. Use your imagination and draw a picture of Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which. 8. Where are the kids going?

// An exercise in word pictures: // 1- Read the description of the Twin’s vegetable garden below. Calvin and Meg in the Twin’s Vegetable Garden: "They walked carefully across the twin’s vegetable garden, picking their way through rows of cabbages, beets, broccoli, pumpkins. Looming on their left were tall stalks of corn. Ahead of them was a small apple orchard bounded by a stone wall, and beyond this, the woods through which they had walked that afternoon." 2- List ten (10) images (people or things) that you see in the garden. 3- Now draw a picture to show what you think it looks like. Try to include all of the details given in the description. 4- Write your own description of your favorite place. (Include as much detail as you can using descriptive words to create a strong picture in the reader's mind.)

Vocabulary Quiz on Monday