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When we meet Mrs. Who, we discover she speaks in quotations.  Why do you think she chooses this mode of speaking?  Provide evidence from the story to support your answer.

Charles Wallace tells Meg, “I think it will be better if people go on thinking I’m not very bright.  They won’t hate me quite so much.”  (pg 30)  Have you ever had to pretend to be something different that what you really were?  When?  How did this feel?   Why do you think you chose not to”be yourself?”

Meg feels that much of what she has to learn in school is unimportant.  What do you consider important for you to learn in school?  What would you say to the school board to change what is taught?  Explain in detail what you consider important.

1. remake                                   frivoling               
2.  again                                       gamboled
3.  behind                                      intoned
4. exact                                         snide
5. salad                                        subdued
6.  police                                                  subsided
7. reward                                     supine
8. figure                                                 sullen
9. delay                                        tangible
10. clever                                      tractable
11. silent                                                 vulnerable
12. panic                                       warily
13. quiver                                     wraithlike
14. jealous                                     ruffled

In chapter 1, Meg tells her kitten, “Just be glad you’re a kitten and not a monster like me.”  Later, she tells her mother, “I hate being an oddball.”  Have you ever felt like a monster or an oddball?  When and why?   How did you handle your feelings?