Look Inside: A Wrinkle in Time Novel Study | Cross Curricular Literature Study for ALL Ages

Hey everybody, welcome to the walled off way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is going to be a look inside one of our brand new novel studies, a wrinkle in time, which is a cross curricular literature study for all ages. This novel study only has one required resource and that is some sort of a wrinkle in time, whether you have the book yourself, whether you get it as an ebook, whether you listen to it as an audio, you just need some way to be able to enjoy a wrinkle in time. Inside the novel study, you are going to find your overview for the six weeks. This is going to tell you what chapters to read each week and what to do each of the five days. So it's basically a lesson plan. I like to just kind of cross it off when I'm done because it's already done for me and it's telling me what to do each day. The cross curricular connections, which if you ask me is like the best part of any of these novel studies, because it's going to give you at least two ideas of things that you can do to extend the novel that will also cover math, writing, social studies, science, art, and music. So for example, research the space race and the cold war era fears from the 1960s when the book was written. How might these have influenced the story's themes? So that's so like quick, like extra thing that you can do. Or explore the concept of a tesseract. Research four dimensional cubes and try to draw or model what a tesseract might look like in 3D. So just fun ways of like extending things that you're already reading or talking about in the book. We have my favorite quotes from a wrinkle in time. And every one of the five weeks is going to have a very similar setup. So they're all going to include copy work, vocabulary work, writing of some kind, comprehension that's going to be for the chapters that you read that week, and a summary. So the copy work is just going to have a short section from the book that your kids are going to copy. And then there's going to be kind of a teaching point down here. So it's going to tell you like what this passage features and maybe something that you can talk to your child about to like dig in a little like it's going to talk about multiple dialogue and then you're going to ask your child to find the verbs used and how the author shows which character is speaking and what their tone is. So just kind of a little bit of extra to go along with that. The vocabulary is going to change each week, I like to kind of shake it up. They're either going to be matching the word to the definition or filling in the blank or sometimes they will even use a dictionary to look up the definition of that word. Same thing with the writing, I'd like to shake it up each week. This week, because they're traveling through the Tesseract, Meg is going to send a postcard home from the beautiful planet. So they're going to do a postcard for their writing. Again, I like to try to shake up the comprehension. So it's going to be kind of an assortment of fill in the blank, multiple choice, true and false, and short answer. And then for your summary, you're going to have them draw a picture of something they feel like represents the chapters you read that week and answer a few short questions about it. After the first five weeks, that's going to repeat very similarly. For the sixth week, you have a few fun activities like a word search in a crossword puzzle. And then you're really going to dig into like the literacy side of the study. So you're going to have them design a new reimagined version of the book cover. They're going to draw a picture of the setting and describe it. They're going to identify the theme and find three examples from the book. They're going to plot the story. They're going to choose their favorite character and do an in-depth character analysis. They're going to write a persuasive kind of book review, if you will. They're going to persuade somebody either to read it or not read it, depending on whether they liked or didn't like the book. You're going to watch the movie and have them do a book and movie comparison. And then I've also included some book and movie discussion questions that you can use to help have those big juicy conversations, especially if you have a teen like me, some of those conversations are just so deep and meaningful. So you can use these after you've read the book and watched the movie. Or if they read the book and watch the movie independently, this will still help guide you through a discussion. For figurative language, there's a few different things that you're going to do. First, you're going to learn what figurative language is, the different types of figurative language. I'm going to give you a definition and an example. Then they're going to go on a figurative language scavenger hunt and see if they can find a few examples from the book to write down. And then they're going to do a hands-on activity. For that hands-on activity, there are different cards, the different types of figurative language, like personification, analogy, hyperbole, you're going to just have them set the cards out. And then they're going to use these, which are 20 different examples of figurative language from the book. And they're going to sort these based off of which type of figurative language they are underneath the cards that they match. There's also nine different final project ideas. So they can pick a final project, or you can skip it. They're just suggestions. And then an answer key. So for all of the vocabulary, the comprehension, and the word search and crossword puzzles, those answer keys are found in the back, including even the hands-on figurative language.