Vocabulary
What vocabulary word means "easily broken or lacking strength or heallth?
frail
What is a simile?
A comparison of unlike things using like, as, as if, as though
What is the setting of "All Summer in a Day?"
Venus/future
What does the title of the story mean?
The sun comes out for an hour every 7 years, so the children must experience the entire summer in one day.
Who is the author of "All Summer in a Day?"
Ray Bradbury
What noun do we refer to as a lot of noise and a difficult time?
tumultuos
What is a metaphor?
A comparison of unlike things not using "like" or "as." Calling a thing something else.
How do the children change by the end of the story?
Possible answers: they feel remorse about what they have done to Margot, they now know what it is like to miss the sun, they start to feel sorry for Margot.
Complete the following statement: The children lock Margot in the closet because________________________.
Possible answers: they are jealous of her; she is different from them; she remembers the sun and they don't...
"The jungle was a nest of octopi" is what type of figurative language?
Metaphor
What word means to bounce back and recover?
resilient
What is a simple word for "conflict" in any text?
A problem
Why was locking Margot in the closet especially mean?
She ends up missing the sun and must wait another seven years to see it, unless her parents return to earth; she remembers the sun from earth.
Ms. Manson always welcomes you to communicate via email. What the two EXTREMELY important items should you include in a subject line of an email when reaching out to her?
First/last name/period
What vocabulary word means really, really big?
immense
What figure of speech is "I think the sun is a flower?"
Metaphor
What happens at the end of the story?
The children release Margot from the closet.
Margot uses the images "gold," "yellow crayon" and "coin large enough to buy the world with" using metaphors and similes to describe what?
The sun.
"There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so..." Infer what this sentence means? Why do Margot's parents believe they may have to take her back to earth?
Various/they think that Margot may be mentally/emotionally unstable due to her lack of seeing the sun.
What vocabulary word means to be unhealthy or injured?
frail
When I make a guess based on certain clues in a text, what is that called?
Inference
What was the first thing the the children noticed when the rain stopped?
They noticed the silence.
What is the first word of the short story "All Summer In A Day?"
"Ready?"