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About This Passage
This sentence teaches young writers how a single short sentence can hold a whole world. Notice how the author chose the word 'concentrating' instead of 'looking at' or 'thinking about.' Concentrating means putting all your mind in one place. The sentence also has a strange and exciting word in it — tesseract — which is a math word for a special shape. Even when a sentence is short, every word can be doing important work.
Charles Wallace appeared to be concentrating on the tesseract.
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Narration Prompt
Tell the story of this chapter from the beginning. Stop at the moment the family hears scary news on the phone. How did the warm kitchen change in that moment?
Discussion Questions
- When the family learns there might be a war, Charles Wallace says, 'It hasn't happened yet. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it may not happen.' Was Charles Wallace being BRAVE to say this, or was he trying to make himself feel better? What in the story makes you think so?
- Mrs. O'Keefe is grumpy and quiet for most of the chapter. But she keeps mumbling words that nobody understands — 'At Tara in this fateful hour.' Why does she keep saying these words? What in the story makes you think they are important to her?
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