Pre-reading Questions

  1. Predict what the story might be about just by hearing the title. (3+ sentences)
  2. Are you interested in any of the following:
    1. Stories about travel through space and time?
    2. Stories about children who are extraordinary?
    3. Stories that require you to use your imagination and suspend your disbelief?
    4. Stories about the power of love?
*Discuss each of these that interest you and why they interest you.
  1. Would you ever:
    1. Invite a very unusual stranger into your house in the middle of the night?
    2. Fight to defend members of your family?
    3. Travel to a place in time and space that you know nothing about and from which a safe return cannot be guaranteed?
    4. Stand up to an incredibly powerful, and malicious, adversary when you know your chances of survival are slim?
*Discuss which of these you might ever attempt and why? (Example…”B. I would defend my family […or my sister/brother/etc.] because…)
  1. Have you ever met someone truly extraordinary? Describe your experience in detail.
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