All Summer in a Day

Read this sentence from the passage.

“A boom of thunder startled them and like leaves before a new hurricane, they tumbled upon each other and ran.”

What does the phrase like leaves before a new hurricane show about the children?

• They are running in different directions.

• They are gathering leaves in the wind.

• They are laughing and playing.

• They are waiting for each other.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RF.4.4C

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What is the biggest difference between Margot and her classmates?

• She is a great poet and they aren't
• She doesn't have dreams and they do
• She remembers the sun and they don't
• They are older than her

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.1

What does the following passage convey to the reader? - A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again.

• Scientists came to Venus to study forests
• Timber is the main resource of Venus
• It has been raining for a very long time
• Rain on Venus is heavier than rain on Earth

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

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.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Setting can give clues about a story’s ________.

• Plot

• Conflict

• Mood

• All of the Above

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

What is the setting of the passage below?

One summer day, Randolph the Bright slept alone in his room in the castle at Reddington. The light of morning seeped slowly through his curtains. Randolph blinked against the day, smiling as his dream came to a peaceful conclusion.

• winter in a train station of a busy city

• a hospital in the future

• a summer morning in a castle

• a grocery store in the 1980s

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The main idea or message about life a story conveys

• Vital

• Theme

• Mood

• Immense

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

An advanced society with a government and culture.

• Theme

• Consequence

• Vital

• Civilization

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.3.4

lacking strength or health; fragile. → Frail

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Needed for survival; most important for life.

• Vital

• Immense

• Frail

• Theme

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CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1