Running Out of Time: Discussion Guide

Questions that can be used in classrooms and book groups

• Pretend Jessie is joining your class for her first day of school in the modern world. How do you think her day would go?


• How would you explain the last 175 years to someone from the early 1800s?


• What do you think are the biggest changes between the early 1800s and now?


• What would you do if you discovered that YOU’RE actually living in a historic preserve, and it’s really 175 years in the future outside?