All Summer in a Day Annotation

All Summer in a Day Annotation

C Bennett 2020

Poll

Which of these is true of a summary?

• Just the facts- no opinion

• Explaining what you think

• Paraphrasing the plot

• Includes the who, what, where, why

Multiple Choice

One of the main ideas of the story is that...

• children learn by examples, not by the book.
• people who are different often suffer at the hands of others.
• life in the future will not necessarily be better.
• most people don't appreciate the simple things in life.

Multiple Choice

The setting of the story...

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

Multiple Choice

Why does the author write that it has been raining for "thousands upon thousands of days" and that a"a thousand forests had been crushed under the rain"?

• To show how much the children want to see the sun.
• To contrast Margot's and William's feelings about the sun.
• To emphasize what seven years of rain must seem like.
• To express what the landscape of Venus really looks like.

Multiple Choice

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

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

Multiple Choice

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

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

Multiple Choice

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

• The children live on Venus.
• Scientists study the sun. 
• It has been raining for 7 years. 
• Children dream of the sun. 

Multiple Choice

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. "
• "Where's the teacher?"
• ". . . the sweet crystal fall of showers. . ."

Multiple Choice

Why don't the other students like Margot?

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

Multiple Choice

You can infer from the children’s “solemn and pale” faces after they come in from the rain that they

• are very tired from playing in the sun.
• feel guilty about locking Margot in a closet. 
• are sad to return to the classroom. 
• are upset to be all wet from the rain.

Figurative Language in the Text

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

Savor means to 

• stop fighting with
• steal something
• take pleasure in
• lock in a closet

Multiple Choice

What does tumultuously mean?

• wildly
• meanly
• difficulty
• softly

Multiple Choice

Something that is immense is

• cloudy
• correct
• fluffy
• huge

Multiple Choice

An apparatus is a

• a device used for a certain purpose
• a drawing
• a container to store things in
• a plan for the future 

Multiple Choice

What does slacken mean? 

• put on
• slow down
• leave up
• catch up