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All Summer in a Day

Authored by Michelle Buchanan

English

6th - 9th Grade

CCSS covered

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All Summer in a Day
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

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. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

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. 

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

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. . ."

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

15 mins • 1 pt

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

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