All Summer in a Day

It rains constantly on the planet Venus, and the children are unable to enjoy the sunlight. What kind of conflict is this?

• man vs. society

• man vs. nature

• man vs. self

• man vs. man

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CCSS.RL.7.3

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

What role does the setting play in the development of the plot?

• The setting is a minor detail.

• The setting changes several times throughout the story.

• The story's plot is based on the setting.

• The story could take place in almost any setting.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

In the story, the children lock Margot in the closet. This is part of the

• setting

• exposition

• falling action

• climax

Which adjective best describes the overall mood of the story?

• peaceful

• scary

• gloomy

• warm

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question?

• It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days

• All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun. About how like a lemon it

  was, and how hot.

• The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed,

  peering out for a look at the hidden sun.

• She knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face,

  in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Which excerpt from the story shows that the children were sorry for locking Margot in the

closet?

• They could not meet each other’s glances. Their faces were solemn and pale. They

  looked at their hands and feet, their faces down.

• But they were running and turning their faces up to the sky and feeling the sun on

  their cheeks like a warm iron; they were taking off their jackets and letting the sun

  burn their arms.

• Margot stood apart from them, from these children who could never remember a

  time when there wasn’t rain and rain and rain.

• They stood looking at the door and saw it tremble from her beating and throwing

  herself against it.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.

A few cold drops fell on their noses and their cheeks and their mouths.

The author uses imagery in this sentence to appeal to the reader’s sense of…

• sight

• hearing

• smell

• touch

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CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Margot never got to see the sun.

• True

• False

There were no plants on Venus.

• True

• False

The children didn't like the sun and its heat.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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CCSS.RI.11-12.1

CCSS.RI.8.1