◼︎ Chapter 9 / pages 169 - 179

— Questions —

  1. Meg thought the moment she found her father everything would be alright again.

    • Is everything alright now?
      Explain why or why not.

  2. How is it Meg feels betrayed by Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Which and Mrs. Who?

  3. Where is IT to be found?

  4. What are Meg’s three greatest faults?

  5. What are the lines from the Declaration of Independence that Meg shouts to keep IT out of her brain?

  6. Meg wants to cut through IT’s cerebrum and cerebellum.

    • Look at the illustration of a brain below.

    • Where are the cerebrum and cerebellum located in the brain?

  7. To keep IT out, Mr. Murry tells Meg to recite the Periodic Table of Elements.

    • Look at the Periodic Table of Elements below.

    • Don’t worry about “getting it right,” but what do you think the Periodic Table of Elements might be?

  8. Meg is tessered away from IT, but it’s not like her earlier tessers.

    • How does Meg experience this tesser?

  9. Why is this tesser so different?

  10. Calvin and Charles Wallace have been left on Camazotz.

    • Predict what might happen to them.

— Vocabulary —

Google: word definition kids — then write the definition.

  1. defer your explanations

  2. Meg cried in anguish

  3. he’s bewitched

  4. a sinister yellow light

  5. the building loomed up

  6. practicing artificial respiration

  7. the inexorable beat

  8. a round dais at the center

  9. she stepped forward tentatively

  10. her father was not omnipotent at all

— A+ BONUS —

Meg hopes her father will solve all her problems.

Charles Wallace says IT solves everyone’s problems.

Someone or something solving all our problems is a theme.

What might the author want us to think about?

Meg says (p. 178), “Hydrogen. Helium… Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine… Neon. Sodium. Magnesium. Silicon. Phosphorus.”

Also in the Periodic Table of Elements: Iron, Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Mercury