Across
- 3. The boy who finds the old book.
- 6. The printed object Tommy finds.
- 9. How Margie feels about old schooling methods.
- 10. Where the old book is discovered.
- 13. How children used to learn (in groups).
- 16. How Margie feels imagining the old schools.
- 17. Digital format of books in the story’s future.
- 19. Tommy’s opinion of printed books.
- 20. The futuristic year in which the story is set.
- 22. Device used for telebook lessons.
- 24. What physical books have, unlike screens.
- 25. Nature of the computerized education system.
- 27. Academic work submitted through the machine.
- 29. Subject that causes Margie to struggle (appears in both sections).
- 30. Again, what Tommy finds in the attic.
Down
- 1. Where assignments are inserted into the machine.
- 2. The story’s genre reflecting a troubled future.
- 4. Tone of past schooling as imagined by Margie.
- 5. What is missing from robotic education.
- 7. What is lost in a tech-dominated learning world.
- 8. Genre to which this story belongs.
- 11. The mechanical entity teaching Margie.
- 12. Literary device contrasting tech vs. tradition.
- 14. Where Margie imagines teachers used to live.
- 15. The subject Margie struggles with.
- 18. Human teachers gave this; mechanical ones lack it.
- 21. Margie’s age.
- 23. What graded Margie’s work.
- 26. The County official who fixes Margie’s machine.
- 28. The main character who dislikes school.