10/23/2019

Language Arts: 

Hello students! 

If you were: 


A. Absent yesterday at all (X-Country students, for example): 

         Watch "All Summer in a Day" - click HERE

          Then, follow the directions in section B.


B. If you were here for the ENTIRE class yesterday, choose FOUR questions from the options below to answer on a lined piece of paper. 
You will turn this in when you go back to my classroom. 
When you are finished, you may read your IR book OR do a Typing program. No Games!



1. Bradbury provides a vivid description of life on Venus. Describe the setting and how it affects the mood. Why does the author begin the story this way?

 2. In the beginning of the story, “the children are pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed peering out for a look at the hidden sun” through the window. How do these words by the author convey tone? Why does the author create this tone? 

 3. The phrases, “Aw, you didn’t write that!” and “What’re you looking at?” are the first responses that William utters to Margot. Why does William have these reactions? 

 4. Consequence in the context means “importance”. The levels of importance vary. Bradbury states, "and the children hated Margot for all the big and little consequences”. Some were not very important reasons while one was especially an important reason to the children. What are these “big and little consequences?”

 5. Bradbury states," the students surge about her" to shove Margot into the closet. What motivates them to do this act? 

6. Bradbury carefully chooses his words. Connotation means the emotional feeling attached to a word. What is the connotation of the words surge, bore and protesting as used in the text? 10. During the short story, the author states that the students are “smiling”. What theme can be inferred by the students’ wicked smiling?

 7. Compare how the children walk away from the door when they push Margot into the closet with how the children walk back to the closet to let her out at the end.

8. Why are the children able to empathize with Margot at the end of the story?