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Chapters 1-2

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: L’Engle, Madeleine. A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Square Fish, 1978. Paperback.

· In Chapter 1, the Murry family is gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving on a rainy evening.

· The twins, Sandy and Dennys, are home from law and medical schools.

· Meg is there without her husband, Calvin, who is in London for a conference.

· Charles Wallace, who is 15 and the youngest, is building a tesseract model with his father, a physicist.

· Meg’s mother-in-law has joined them, which is unusual.

· She usually does not accept invitations.

· Calvin is much different than the rest of his family.

· When he received his M.D./Ph.D., his family felt he had joined “the ranks of the enemy” (3).

· Calvin has never seemed to fit in with his rough family.

· The O’Keefe’s and many of the villagers thought that...

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