1. IF:
You're a time traveler. You've been teleported to a random time and place. What are some ways to find out when/where you are? Try to think of as many as possible.

3. Ways that time passes in a book.
Brainstorm
Ways that time passes in a book.

4. Various types of time passing: (write these down)
- play-by-play of a scene
- like a movie scene; we get every second of what’s going on
- waiting periods
- The text skips over a portion where nothing happens (like a character sitting in a waiting room)
- summarizing action
- The text summarizes what happened (Polly couldn’t sleep at all that night, because her sister wouldn’t stop snoring).
- scene changes
- When they got to school…
- skipping over large periods of time
- It was ten years before they saw each other again. By then…

5. - pick one example of time change
Practice writing
- pick one example of time change
- write a mini-scene that includes it