(Courtesy of amazon.com)Title: A Wrinkle in Time
Author: Madeleine L’Engle
Lexile: 740L
Awards: Newbery Medal
Genre: Science Fiction
Summary:
Meg Murry a quirky teenager who can’t seem to find her place in the scheme of things. One day she chances upon a mystery involving her father, a famous scientist who had gone missing several years before. Together with Charles, her very young, but genius brother, and Calvin, a young man who is particularly sensitive to people,]they journey to distant lands using the mysterious travel device, the Tesseract. Through the guidance of a group of outer-dimensional beings, she unravels the mystery of her father’s disappearance and defies a cosmic threat she hadn’t known existed.
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Introduction to Activity:
A unique set piece of this fantasy book is the Tesseract, a device that makes time travel possible by having the user enter another dimension than re-enter their dimension at a different place and time. Though the Tesseract is a fictional device, time travel, in theory, is a real concept and some of the greatest minds have devoted thought to the concept. Using the article, Time Travel: Theories, Paradoxes and Possibilities, students will investigate the real theories and science behind this fiction.
Activity:
Students will read through the article Time Travel: Theories, Paradoxes and Possibilities and choose a theory, paradox, or possibility to investigate. Students will find and present a nonfiction article that addresses the main idea of the option they chose. Students will summarize the article including major scientist or philosophers, cite the article according to MLA standards, and identify and define at least 3 key words that are new to them.
Learning Standard(s):
CC.6.W.7 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.
CC.6.R.L.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CC.6.W.9.a Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories] in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics”).
Learning Goals:
Students will understand how nonfiction can inform fictional works.
Students will develop research skills including appropriate citations and source finding.
Students will develop vocabulary.
Learning Objectives:
(K) Students will understand how fiction is informed by nonfiction by investigating nonfiction resources that have scientific theories or philosophies that pertain to the fictional text, A Wrinkle in Time.
(S) Students will identify three unfamiliar words in the nonfiction text that supports or informs their presentation.
(A) Students understand the ethical need for proper citation by completing MLA citations on their chosen article.
Learning Outcomes:
Students will create a presentation that identifies a time travel principle using appropriate, vocabulary specific, language.
Students will relate their chosen article to the time travel subject as mentioned in A Wrinkle in Time.
Students will cite their article resource correctly using MLA.
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Works Cited:
Time Travel: Theories, Paradoxes and Possibilities
Howell, S. Time Travel: Theories, Paradoxes and Possibilities. Space.com, 14 Nov. 2017, https://www.space.com/21675-time-travel.html. Accessed 12 Dec. 2017.
Rationale: Article contains a brief synopsis of the main theories of time travel and contains the fictional works that are derivatives of the theory including A Wrinkle In Time.
Cosmic Strings
Anderson. D. Cosmic Strings. Anderson Institute, 2012, http://www.andersoninstitute.com/cosmic-strings.html. Accessed 12 Dec. 2017.
Rationale: A possible option for a time travel theory and a primary source of the theory. Also serves as an example of good source. Students could use this article as the summary of their chosen time travel theory.
The Time Travel Simulation Resolves
Billings, L. The Time Travel Simulation Resolves. Scientific American, 2 Sept. 2014, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-travel-simulation-resolves-grandfather-paradox/. Accessed 12 Dec. 2017.
Rationale: A possible option for a time travel theory article and an example of a good source. Students could use this article as the summary of their chosen time travel paradox.
Time Travel is Possible Through Wormholes-But You Can Only Ever Go Backward
Osbourne, H. Time Travel is Possible Through Wormholes-But You Can Only Ever Go Backward. Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2017, http://www.newsweek.com/time-travel-possible-wormhole-black-hole-astrophysicist-715038
Accessed 12 Dec. 2017.
Rationale: A possible option for a time travel theory article and an example of a good source. Students could use this article as the summary of their chosen time travel theory.
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