All Summer in a Day

What happens ever 7 years on Venus?

• A rocket ship lands with one more settler
• All of the trees stop growing
• The sun explodes
• The sun shines for one hour

How is Margot different from the other children?

• She is older than the other students
• She is much taller than the other students
• She has seen the sun when she lived on Earth
• She danced in the rain 

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Why does Margot refuse to shower in the shower rooms?

• Water will affect her skin
• Other students ridicule her and single her out.
• She wants the others to know she is not like them.
• It reminds her of the constant rain she has come to hate

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CCSS.RL.6.2

 The other children dislike Margot because she...

• has red hair and blue eyes.
• does not join in their games
• claims to have seen the sun.
• was born on Venus.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

The day the rain stops, what do the children experience first?

• a quick rise in temperature
• an avalanche, a tornado and a hurricane
• guilt about what they did to Margot 
• a tremendous silence

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

How do the children react to the sunny day?

• They are fearful because they don’t understand it
• They run and shout with pleasure
• They all begin to cry at once
• They won’t listen to their teacher’s warning about time.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

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CCSS.RL.6.2

 What metaphor does the author use to describe the forests? 

• a nest of octopuses with fleshy arms
• a blessed sea of no sound or motion
• a film of an avalanche, a tornado or a hurricane
• an old photograph from a dusty album 

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 How do the children react when they remember about Margot?

• They become fearful for her safety. 
• They are jealous about her knowledge
• They feel shame and embarrassment.
• They feel a new affection for her

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

Why are the students on Venus?

• as an experiment to see the effects of sunlight
• because their parents are rocket people 
•  to get a better education 
• to wait seven years for the next Earth shuttle 

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CCSS.RI.6.1

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CCSS.W.6.9A

Margot’s “biggest crime” was that—

• she had come to Venus only five years before and remembered the sun
• her parents were taking her back to Earth the following year.
• she thought that she was better than the rest of the children.
• she would not play with the rest of the children.

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