All Summer in a Day

What are the kids doing at the start of the story?

• They are looking out the window
• They are waiting for the teacher
• They are laughing at Margot
• They are sitting at their desks

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

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.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

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

• The children live on Venus.
• Scientists study the sun. 
• It has been raining for 7 years. 
• Children dream of the sun. 

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

When the sun comes out, the children

• think it looks like a lemon
• stay in the classroom and hide.
• run and play outside, in the jungle. 
• cry and wait for the rain to return. 

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

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.5.4

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.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following is true of nine year-old children who have spent all their lives on the planet Venus?

• The children are always cruel to  those who don't fit in.
• The children have never heard a bird sing.
• The children grow up with no real memory of sunlight.
• The children speak a different language than English.

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CCSS.RI.K.1

One of the main ideas of the story is that...

• children learn by examples, not by the book.
• people who are different often suffer at the hands of others.
• life in the future will not necessarily be better.
• most people don't appreciate the simple things in life.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

The children move slowly and hesitate to see Margot at the end of the story because-

• they can't bear to see her pale face again.
• they know they will get in trouble now.
• they are worried that Margot may not be where they left her.
• they know they have done a cruel thing to her.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.3