A Wrinkle In Time

Graphic Novel 5 - 7

A Wrinkle in Time - adaptation by Hope Larson original work by Madeleine L’Engle

740L

Summary - Meg Murry is worried that things are getting odd in her life, her father has disappeared and their seems some strange characters in her town. Charles Wallace, her brother, has befriended one of them, Mrs.Whatsit who comes to their house at night and starts explaining odd things to them like the tesseract, which is a wrinkle in time, also seems odd to Meg. On their way home from school one day Charles and Meg run into a new friend named Calvin. From this point on the three travel around the 5th dimension with Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs,Who and Mrs.Which, all friends in the same way our three main characters are. We follow them on a journey to retrieve their lost father and to become better friends.

Selling Tool - Classic stories are all around us, they are in TV and movies and we don’t even realize that they are there. This is one of those stories. A Wrinkle in Time, the graphic novel version, is one of the most used and talked about stories of the past 50 years, and graphic novels are the best introduction to these types of stories, and Hope Larson’s illustrations are an enhancement to an already amazing story that stands the test of time.

Standard - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.7.3.A
Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and point of view and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
Goal - To better understand the characters of Mrs.Whatsit, Mrs.Who and Mrs.Which and how they relate to the story

Objective - Students will learn and be able to pull quotes, pictures and other evidence from the text to support a claim about a character, and to infer something about that character.

Outcome - Students will use the text to develop a story that explains how one of the three characters got their gifts. Students will be able to use the story of A Wrinkle in Time to enhance their idea of where the gift came from. In addition, students will use the other three main characters that received the gifts to explain why each one got them.

Refrences -
https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/teachers-guides/9780312367558TG.pdf#page=7
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/7/