Vocabulary
Which vocabulary word means "easily broken or lacking strength or heallth?
frail
What is a simile?
A comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"
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 do we call an advanced society with a government and culture? For example, Wakanda.
civilization
What is a metaphor?
A comparison of unlike things not using "like" or "as."
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 remember the sun and they don't...
"The jungle was a nest of octopi" is what type of figurative language?
Metaphor
Which vocabulary word means "the way an author uses the five senses to engage a reader?"
sensory details
What figure of speech is "A boom of thunder startled them?"
Onomatopeia
Why was locking Margot in the closet especially mean?
She ends up missing the sun and must wait another seven years to see it.
Complete the statement: The main purpose of the story is________________________.
Possible answers: to illustrate how jealousy can lead to mean behavior; to teach that bullying is wrong; to show how prejudice exists everywhere
Name TWO character traits you can use to describe Margot?
Various
Which vocabulary word means "the way a person looks at or thinks about something?"
perspective
What figure of speech is "I think the sun is a flower?"
Simile
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" 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 do we call "emotions felt when reading a story?"
moods
What figure of speech is "...a coin large enough to buy the world with?"
Hyperbole
What was the first thing the the children noticed when the rain stopped?
They noticed the silence.
Name at least two differences you noticed between the short story "All Summer in a Day" and the video clips we watched in class in Ms. Webb's video.
Various
What is the first word of the short story "All Summer In A Day?"
"Ready?"