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A Wrinkle in Time Book Club Focused on Story Elements

Use A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle to strengthen your students' comprehension skills, build their vocabulary, and help them understand how story elements are used to develop engaging stories.

A Wrinkle in Time is the story of a fairly typical teenage girl who has an incredible experience. It is both an examination of the insecurities of one girl and a larger story about the darkness consuming her world. Author, Madeleine L'Engle, expertly weaves story elements common to both fantasy and science fiction throughout the novel making it the perfect choice for minilessons focused on exploring story elements in text.

By following the minilessons included in this Book Club resource set, you'll provide students with the opportunity to examine the ways in which story elements like evemnts, problems, characters, and resolution are used to develop a novel as engaging as A Wrinkle in Time.

Included in this resource
Lesson plans for 6 book club meetings focused on Story Elements
Chapter by chapter discussion questions and key vocabulary
Book Club calendar
Conversation prompts
Student self-evaluations forms
Reading response board
Culminating activity
Instructional focus assessment, answer key, and rubric
Note: This set of instructional resources is for use with the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.

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Included in this resource
Lesson plans for 6 book club meetings focused on Story Elements
Chapter by chapter discussion questions and key vocabulary
Book Club calendar
Conversation prompts
Student self-evaluations forms
Reading response board
Culminating activity
Instructional focus assessment, answer key, and rubric
This set of instructional resources is for use with the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. A copy of the book is not included in this set of resources.

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Book Club resources

The management resources include a Book Club Calendar, conversation prompts, Student Self-Evaluation Forms, Reading Response Board (with optional Common Core alignment), and an Expectations for Book Club anchor chart.

The instructional overview includes instructional background for story elements, instructional objectives for each of the Book Club meetings, and a list of the materials and preparation necessary to A Wrinkle in Time Book Club.

The first Book Club meeting focuses on the six parts of a plot (exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution). Using a plot diagram, students will track the important events in the first two chapters of A Wrinkle in Time. Students will also begin working on tracking characters, an activity they will continue as they read the novel.

Students will examine the central conflict of the story and how it impacts the characters in A Wrinkle in Time. Work during the second Book Club meeting focuses on adding events to the plot diagram and the Tracking Characters Sheet from the first meeting.

An important first step in noticing how the plot impacts characters in A Wrinkle in Time is to notice character traits at the beginning of the story. In the third Book Club meeting students will use a graphic organizer to keep track of their observations as they continue reading the novel.

As the story reaches its climax, the characters in Madeleine L'Engle's novel begin to change. In the fourth Book Club meeting students will use the work they have up to this point to fuel a thoughtful discussion on the plot's impact on the characters in A Wrinkle in Time.

Author Madeleine L'Engle does a beautiful job of developing characters throughout the story. This Book Club meeting will provide readers with the opportunity to examine the characters at critical points in the story's plot in order to draw conclusions about the ways in which they have changed throughout the story.

This final A Wrinkle in Time Book Club meeting reveals the resolution to Madeleine L'Engle's story. With the plot complete, students will take a final look at the relationship between the plot events and the traits of the main characters at the beginning and end of the text.

Use this six-question assessment to determine whether or not students understand the key concepts associated with story elements.

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Book Title:

A Wrinkle in Time

Book Author:

Madeleine L'Engle

Grade Level:

Genre(s):

Fantasy, Science Fiction

F&P Guided Reading Level:

DRA Level:

Reading Recovery Level:

Theme(s):

Adventure, Award Winners, Family, Friendship, Decision Making, Relationship Skills, Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness

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Common Core Alignment:	RL.6.1, RL.6.2, RL.6.3, RL.6.4, RL.6.5, RL.6.6, RL.6.7, RL.6.9, RL.6.10, W.6.8, W.6.9, SL.6.1a, SL.6.1b, SL.6.1c, L.6.6, L.6.4a, L.6.5
Vocabulary Connections:	L.6.6, L.6.4a, L.6.5