"A Wrinkle in Time" Project Ideas
Reading novels with students is always an exciting time, especially when you get a chance to read fantasy stories such as "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine D'Engle. You may choose to read the story together or independently, but either way this story allows for fun and exciting culminating projects. Project ideas for "A Wrinkle in Time" can be very detailed and extended or short and simple, depending on the time available.
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Paper Activities
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There are many independent and group project ideas available for the story that require few supplies beyond paper. Have students create a board game using comprehension questions. The author uses many famous quotes throughout the story, and students may create a quote book recording many of these proverbs and an analysis of their meaninsg and how they added to the story. Another idea is to create a fourth character that follows Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which around. For this project, have students create a detailed description and a dialogue between the four characters.
Writing Activities
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Adding writing as a complement to reading a novel is usually a good way for language arts teachers to tie reading and writing goals together. Instruct students to summarize the plot in poetic form, and challenge advanced students by giving them a specific format in which to create their poem, such as a sonnet. Have students create their own science-fiction adventure stories that parallel "A Wrinkle in Time," or write and perform a short play to summarize the story for other students.
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Digital Projects
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Students today enjoy computers and creating projects digitally, and a science fiction story leaves many options for digital projects. The most simple digital project is to create a PowerPoint, Google Presentation or Smart Notebook presentation that summarizes the story or provides character information. Another option is to have students create a website as an overview of the story or as a virtual museum, complete with created primary documents that could potentially have been found in the story. These documents are either developed by the students or taken from photographs found online. Also include artifacts the kids in the story found as they moved from place to place.
Create a Scene
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Some students enjoy artistic projects where they are allowed to use their imaginations to create things, and "A Wrinkle in Time" offers plenty of room for a child's imagination. Allow students to show their understanding by creating scenes from the story, such as a diorama of Camazotz. Students create a 3-D model of what they look like through the tesseract process. Another idea is to allow students to show what they thought the ruler IT looked like, or create models of other characters in the story.
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