In this self-paced course, students will demonstrate plot comprehension, build vocabulary, and explore how the unique features of a graphic novel work together to tell a story. They will respond to questions that encourage them to think critically and to support their conclusions with textual evidence, and/or draw connections between the reading, their own lives, and the world around them. 

Learners will examine STEM concepts that surface in the novel in STEM-centered slideshows and discussion prompts.

Mentor text exercises (storycraft side trips) will invite learners to take a close look at the ways literary elements like flashback, point of view, character traits, and figurative language surface in both the graphic novel and Madeleine L'Engle's original, then apply techniques under consideration in their own writing.