All Summer in a Day

At the beginning of the story, the children are waiting for...

• a rainstorm
• the sunshine
• an early dismissal
• a science experiment

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What are the children doing in paragraph 7 when they are "pressed together like so many roses, so many weeds"?

• 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.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• Margot lives on Venus.

• Scientists study the sun.

• Rain fall for seven years.

• Children dream of the sun.

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

Which of the following is true of nine year-olds  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.7.3

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. "

• "they were dreaming and remembering a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with"

• ". . . 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 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 she is.

The word that best describes how Margot's classmates feel about her at the beginning of the story is _______.

• jealous

• friendly

• afraid

• frightened

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CCSS.RI.1.4

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

What are the children remembering when they dream of "gold or a yellow crayon or a large coin?"

• art class

• the sun

• money from Earth

• Margot's poem

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

What does the following passage tell us about Margot? "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's eyes don't have any color.

• Margot doesn't wear lipstick anymore.

• Margot is pale and delicate.

• Margot hasn't been in from the rain in years.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Why does Margot not want to shower or let the water touch her head?

• She throws tantrums until she gets her way.

• She hates to shower in public.

• The rain is overwhelming and driving her crazy.

• She doesn't care about being dirty

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A