HVG3 - 2223 - All Summer in a Day

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Lesson Aims:

- describe situations in the stories in your own words;

- introduce characters from the stories to other people;

- identify elements from the stories that contribute to setting;

- organize elements of a plot in a story;

- analyze a scene to help you understand the characters in a story;

- you can rewrite parts of a story from a different point of view;

- explain to a classmate how your characters are built up throughout a story;

- compare setting, characters, and theme from different stories;

- choose stories that you find interesting;

- visualize situations from the story;

- predict how stories will develop;

- discuss your writing with a classmate;

- rephrase short paragraphs in your own words;

- name the stages of a plot diagram.

Instruction:

There will first be a listening and reading exercise, then answer the questions afterwards. There will be some L2 writing practice opportunities as well. 

Synopsis:

In the future, people live under the surface of the planet Venus. Only once in seven years, they can see the sun. 

Why don't the other students like Margot?

1. Margot picks on William.
2. Margot's experiences are very different than the other students'.
3. Margot thinks she is better than the others.
4. Margot does not like to take showers.

What is the best evidence for Bradbury creating a gloomy/dreary mood in "All Summer in a Day"?

1. "Where's the teacher?"
2. ". . . the sweet crystal fall of showers. . ."
3. “A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again. "
4. ". . . and this was the schoolroom of the children. . . "

What does the following evidence suggest about Margot from "All Summer in a Day"?

"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."

1. Margot has been out in the rain for years.
2. Margot is pale and delicate.
3. Margot's eyes have no color.
4. Margot no longer wears lipstick.

What quote from "All Summer in a Day" is the best evidence to show the children's frenzied excitement?

1. "Do the scientists really know?"
2. "They stood looking at the door. . . "
3. "It's stopping, it's stopping!"
4. "They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes."

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

1. Margot lives on Venus.
2. Scientists study the sun.
3. Rain falls for seven years.
4. Children dream of the sun.

Which statement best explains how the rainy season affects Margot?

1. She is pale, silent, and thin.
2. She likes to hide from everyone.
3. Tunnels are her only comfort.
4. Rain improves her poetry writing.

Falling action: You can infer that the children feel ashamed after they come back inside because they...

1. have blue faces from the light.
2. close the door on the falling rain.
3. look down at their feet and hands.
4. are startled when they hear the thunder.

The setting of the story...

1. could have been anywhere.
2. contributes to the story's main conflict
3. resolves the problem in the story.
4. has nothing to do with the story's problem.

The children move slowly and hesitate to see Margot at the end of the story because-

1. they can't bear to see her pale face again.
2. they know they will get in trouble now.
3. they are worried that Margot may not be where they left her.
4. they know they have done a cruel thing to her.

You can infer from the children's "solemn and pale" faces after they come in from the rain that they...

1. feel tired from playing.
2. are ashamed of what they did to Margot.
3. must go back to their classroom.
4. are soaking wet from the rainstorm.

What conflict does the setting of this story create for Margot?

1. She misses her old friends from Earth.
2. She cannot live with her parents while she is on Venus.
3. There is never enough light for her to see.
4. She is depressed without the sun.

In the following sentence, what does the word tumultuously most likely mean?
"They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus that grew and never stopped growing tumultuously, even as you watched it."

1. in a peaceful way
2. in an orderly fashion
3. in a comical fashion
4. in a confused way

Open question: How and why does the children’s point of view change over the course of the story "All Summer in a Day"? What lesson or theme does this change convey?

Explain the simile "they turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all tumbling spokes" in "All Summer in a Day."