◼︎ Chapter 4 / pages 74 - 83

— Questions —

  1. Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin are “moving through the air.”

    • How did this come about?

  2. What do Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin seen in the garden below them?

  3. Mrs. Whatsit is able to translate the song the children hear.

    • Write the first sentence of the song.

  4. Mrs. Whatsit has the children each take a flower.

    • Why?

  5. What is the “great white disc” they see?

  6. Everyone turns away from the light and stares into the dark.

    • What do they see?

  7. How do the children feel about what they see?

  8. When they all return to the flowery field, Meg asks Mrs. Which a question.

    • What does she ask?

  9. What do you think the answer to Meg’s question might be?

— Vocabulary —

Google: word definition kids — then write the definition.

  1. the creature’s flight was serenely smooth

  2. they left the fertile fields

  3. a great plateau of granite-like rock

  4. enormous monoliths

  5. Charles Wallace cried in an anguished voice

  6. it seemed completely incomprehensible

  7. the moisture condensed in icy droplets

  8. a shaft of light

  9. the atmosphere will get thinner

  10. the thin atmosphere does not obscure your vision

— A+ BONUS—

Here’s the Hero / Heroine’s Cycle again:

  1. The Ordinary World

  2. The Call to Adventure

  3. The Journey (with lots of ups and downs)

  4. The Big Climax

  5. The Return

Imagine The Thing—the shadow—the children see is an important part of the Big Climax.

Make a prediction: What might happen during the Big Climax?