◼︎ Chapter 3 / pages 55 - 63

— Questions —

  1. How is Charles Wallace different?

  2. As a bedtime story, Calvin has read Genesis to Wallace.

    • What’s Genesis?

  3. We keep hearing about a tesseract, but still don’t know what it is.

    • Do you think a tesseract will be important in the story? Why?

  4. If there are pumpkins in Sandy and Denny’s vegetable garden, what time of year might it be?

  5. Meg’s father works for himself.

    • Who else does he work for?

  6. What’s up with the letters from Meg’s father to her mother?

  7. What did Meg’s mother learn about Meg’w father in Washington DC?

  8. Calvin says Meg has “dream-boat eyes.”

    • What do you think this means?

  9. What do you think Calvin’s feelings towards Meg might be?

  10. Mrs. Whatsit says Mrs. Who is billions of years old.

    • What do you make of this?

    • Use your imagination: there’s no right/wrong answer!

— Vocabulary —

Google: word definition kids — then write the definition.

  1. Charle’s Wallace’s essence

  2. "Yah," Meg said dubiously

  3. a heavy, sweet, autumnal smell to the air

  4. dappled with patterns

  5. she was back in a morass of anger and resentment

  6. she was back in a morass of anger and resentment

  7. Your father's a physicist

  8. physics

  9. as tangible as the dark tree shadows

  10. a young colt

— A+ BONUS —

Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which may be taking Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin to find Mr. Murry.

Use you imagination and make a prediction: what might happen now?

If you’ve seen the movie, try to remember what happens at this point in the story.