"All Summer in a Day" remote learning

As the story begins, the children are waiting for the --

• first solar eclipse in seven years

• arrival of the brightest comet ever seen

• arrival of an artificial sun that will make Venus warm

• rain to stop for the first time in seven years

Which of the following is true of nine-year-old children who have spent all their lives on this 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 memory of the sunlight or blue skies.

• The children speak a different language than English.

How do we know that the children feel terrible about what they did to Margot?

• They apologize to Margot.

• They tell their teacher what they did and begin to cry.

• They can't meet each other's eyes and hold their heads down.

• They help raise money to send Margot back to Earth.

Why does the author write that it has been raining for "thousands upon thousands of days" and that a"a thousand forests had been crushed under the rain"?

• To show how much the children want to see the sun.
• To contrast Margot's and William's feelings about the sun.
• To emphasize what seven years of rain must seem like.
• To express what the landscape of Venus really looks like.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

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.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

What problem does the setting of the story cause Margot?

• She misses her old friends on Earth.

• She cannot live with her parents while she is on Venus.

• There is never enough light for her to see.

• She is miserable without the sun.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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."

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

Where are the children at the resolution (ending) of the story?

• In their classroom

• Standing by the closet where they have locked Margot

• Outside running in the sunshine

• In the underground tunnels, playing tag

What two nasty things do the children do to Margot?

• They joke that the sun isn't coming out, and they lock her in the closet.

• They tell jokes about her and lock her in the closet.

• They pull her hair and let her get lost in the underground tunnel.

• They steal her things and chase her outside in the rain.