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Madeleine L'Engle

Books Written by Madeleine L'Engle:
     A Wrinkle In Time 
     A Wind in the Door 
     A Swiftly Tilting Planet 
     Many Waters 
     Meet the Austins 
     The Moon By Night 
     A Ring of Endless Light 
     The Arm of the Starfish 
     Troubling a Star 
     Dragons in the Waters 
     The Young Unicorns 		      A House Like A Lotus 
     And Both Were Young 
     Camilla 
     A Small Rain 
     An Acceptable Time 
     The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas 
     The Anti-Muffins 
     Dance in the Desert 
     Troubling a Star 
     The Glorious Impossible 
     The Journey With Jonah 
Activities:  (Starred examples are a required task.) 
*1.  Choose a book from the choices listed above, and read it.
*2.  Read Ms. L'Engle's Biography site.(Click on the biography link)
3.  After reading AWrinkle in Time, you have met the Murry family.  Visit this Murry Family site to get the "low down" on the characters, and to see which other L'Engle novels include these characters.
4.  In addition to the Murry family, Ms. L'Engle has other family series:  the O'Keefe family, and the Austin family.  Research which books cover each family at the Tesseract site.  Design a family tree for one of the families in the series. The following link on designing a Family Tree might be helpful.
5.  Read The Arm of the Starfish. Research starfish using some of the following sites: Starfish Info., True Starfish, and Starfish Model.
6.  In A Ring of Endless Light, Vicky works with dolphins.  After reading the novel, learn as much as you can about dolphins.  Some informative links are:
Dolphins, Bottlenose Dolphins, Wild Animal Watch: Dolphins site, and theCetacea site. From the information you collect, choose one of the following activities: 1) Design a web page on a dophin species of your choice.
                 2) Create a Presentations slide show on dolphins to share with your class.
                 3) Using HyperStudio, make a "Living Book" about dolphins for the first
                      grade students.  Share your book with the first grade class.
7.  Visit the following link: Madeleine L'Engle's multimedia site.   Scroll down to the sounds portion of the page.  Listen to Ms. L'Engle's interview, article and poem.  Come up with 3-5 interview questions you can ask someone in the building.  Set up a time to interview this person.  Ask the questions you prepared, and take notes on their responses.  Type up your interview and turn it in to your teacher.
8. Here are two more web sites for you to check out:
Disney's A Wrinkle in Time web site
   Share these sites with a couple of your friends.
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