All in a Summer's Day

Why don't the other students like Margot?

• Margot picks on William.
• Margot's experiences are very different than the other students'.
• Margot thinks she is better than the others.
• Margot does not like to take showers.

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CCSS.RL.K.1

What is the best evidence for Bradbury creating a gloomy/dreary mood in "All Summer in a Day"?

• ". . . and this was the schoolroom of the children. . . "
• “A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. "
• "Where's the teacher?"
• ". . . the sweet crystal fall of showers. . ."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does the following evidence suggest about Margot from  "All Summer in a Day"?
"She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair."

• Margot has been out in the rain for years.
• Margot is pale and delicate.
• Margot's eyes have no color.
• Margot no longer wears lipstick.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

What quote from "All Summer in a Day" is the best evidence to show the children's frenzied excitement?

• "Do the scientists really know?"
• "They stood looking at the door. . . "
• "It's stopping, it's stopping!"
• "They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes."

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which detail shows that the story takes place in the future?

• Margot lives on Venus.
• Scientists study the sun.
• Rain falls for seven years.
• Children dream of the sun.

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

CCSS.RL.K.3

Which statement best explains how the rainy season affects Margot?

• She is pale, silent, and thin.
• She likes to hide from everyone.
• Tunnels are her only comfort.
• Rain improves her poetry writing.

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

You can infer that the children feel ashamed after they come back inside because they...

• have blue faces from the light.
• close the door on the falling rain.
• look down at their feet and hands.
• are startled when they hear the thunder.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

One reason the children treat Margot badly is because she...

• stays away from the jungle.
• locks children in closets.
• writes poetry about the rain.
• might get to return to Earth.

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CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.SL.K.2

When the sun comes out, the children...

• compare it to a penny.
• return to the classroom.
• play in the pale jungle.
• wait for the rainfall.

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What conflict does the setting of this story create for Margot?

• She misses her old friends from Earth.
• She cannot live with her parents while she is on Venus.
• There is never enough light for her to see.
• She is depressed without the sun.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3