Directions: Respond to the questions using complete sentences.
Chapter 1
- Where and when does the action in this chapter take place?
- What do we learn about each of the following characters in this opening chapter?
| Meg | |
| Sandy & Dennys | |
| Charles Wallace | |
| Fortinbras | |
| Father | |
| Mrs. Murry | |
| Mrs. Whatsit |
- Write three (3) sentences from Chapter One that tell us how Meg feels about herself.
- What is the real problem that has Meg worried and upset?
- Describe Mrs. Whatsit in your own words.
Chapter 2
- Who is Mr. Jenkins? Why is Meg so antagonistic toward him?
- Charles Wallace looked troubled. “I don’t think it’s that. It’s being able to understand a sort of language, like sometimes if I concentrate very hard I can understand the wind talking with the trees. You tell me, you see, sort of inad—inadvertently.
Read the text above. What language do you think Charles Wallace is talking about in his conversation with Meg?
- Why does Charles Wallace want to go to Mrs. Whatsit’s house?
- Charles Wallace and Calvin are both sports. What kind of sport are they talking about? (not a game – Look in a dictionary.)
- Why did Calvin come to the haunted house?
- What does the strange ending to this chapter make you wonder about?
- What new
characters do we meet in Chapter Two?
Chapter 3
- Calvin compares his family with Meg’s family.
- How does Calvin feel about his own family?
- How does he feel about Meg’s family?
- Use the Venn Diagram below to compare & contrast Calvin’s mother and Meg’s Mother. List their similarities in the center circle.
- 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!”
- Why is Mrs. Murry upset?
- List three ways in which Charles Wallace is different from most five year old boys.
- What do we learn about Meg’s father in this chapter?
- How does Calvin make Meg stop crying and feeling sorry for herself?
- Where are the kids going?
Chapter 4
- What do you think is happening to Meg at the beginning of this chapter?
- Why does Mrs. Who use so many quotes instead of using her own words?
- Where are they now, and how did they get there?
- Why did they stop there?
- Mrs. Whatsit transformed into another creature right before the kid’s eyes. Describe her new body.
- How does Mrs. Whatsit’s new voice sound compared to her old voice?
- What did the kids see as they flew over the garden while riding on Mrs. Whatsit’s back?
- What were the creatures singing?
- Why did the children need to use the flowers that were given to them?
- What did Mrs. Whatsit show them when they reached the summit of the mountain?
Chapter 5
- Read over the last paragraph of Chapter 4 and the first paragraph of Chapter 5. Why is Meg so upset?
- What mistake does Mrs. Which make when they are tessering?
- What happened to Meg because of Mrs. Which’s mistake?
- What is a tesseeract anyway?
- Draw a diagram or table that shows what you think the experience of tessering would be like.
- Where are they now, and why are they there?
- In your own wordswrite a description of the Happy Medium and the place where she lives.
- Why did the Happy Medium not want to look at Earth?
- What do you think the dark thing is or represents?
- Who are some of the people on Earth who’ve fought the darkness
- Where is Meg’s father?
- What do you think has happened to him?
Chapter 6
- What made the darkness disappear?
- Why did Charles Wallace want to kiss Mrs. Whatsit?
- Meg became angry when she saw how sad her mother was. Why did Mrs. Whatsit tell Meg to “Stay angry “ ?
- The three
women had to leave the kids on their own on Camazotz. However, before they
left, they each gave something special to the kids. What gift did each woman
give them?
- Mrs. Whatsit
gave to:
- Calvin –
- Meg –
- Charles Wallace –
- Mrs. Who gave
to:
- Calvin –
- Charles Wallace –
- Meg –
- Mrs. Whatsit
gave to:
- Mrs. Which gave all three of them a command. What was it?
- Mrs. Whatsit also warned Charles Wallace about something. What was it?
- Why were the kids left on Camazotz anyway? What were they going to do?
- What are Meg’s faults? How can her faults help her with her mission?
- Write a paragraph describing what it is like on Camazotz.
- How would you like living in a place like this?
