1. By Ray Bradbury Week 13 November 24-28
All Summer in a Day
By Ray Bradbury
Week 13
November 24-28

2. The plan…. Objectives Review Story: All Summer in a Day
Author’s Purpose
Background Information for All Summer in a Day
About the Author: Ray Bradbury
Story: All Summer in a Day
Comprehension Questions
Preview
Test

3. Objectives
Students will recognize details that indicate author’s purpose
Students will utilize background information to determine author’s purpose
Students will demonstrate ability to read and comprehend short stories; identify, recall and improvise sentences with section vocabulary; and identify and summarize author’s purpose.

4. Author’s purpose
An author’s purpose is his/her main reason for writing.
The author’s purpose influences what the author says and how he or she says it.
Author’s purpose
Clues
To _____________
Strong language, favors one side of an issue
Silly, humorous, suspenseful, exciting details
Facts and details
To reflect on an experience
Descriptions, comments by the writer.

5. A description of a character, place, or event may contain details that reveal the author’s purpose.
Fiction writers may write for variety of purposes they may wish to entertain, to teach, to call to action, or to reflect on experiences.
Recognizing details that indicate the author’s purpose can give you a rich understanding of a text.
Entertain
____________________________________________
Teach
______________________
Reflect

6. Literary Analysis The Setting:
The setting of a story is ___________________________________________.
In some stories, setting is just a backdrop. The same story events could take place in a completely different place
In other stories, setting is very important. It develops a specific atmosphere or mood in the story. The setting may even relate directly to the story’s central conflict or problem

7. Now open your books Page 92
All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury  “No one in the class could remember a time when there wasn't rain.”
Now open your books Page 92
Let’s read 

8. Pre-reading Questions page 92
Name the planets. What do you know about each of them?
Does the weather affect your mood?
Do you hurt people because they are different? Give examples.
Look at the picture. Do you think this story will be happy? Sad? Scary? Why?

9. Reading Questions page 93
What is the setting of this story? Please give three details about the setting from the bracketed passage.
Has the long period of rain affected the children? How so?
What do the children hope will happen today?

10. Reading Questions page 94
What does slackening mean?
What did Margot write about the sun? How did she describe the sun?
What point is made about Margot when the story says that the rain had washed the blue form her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair?
How did William tease her?

11. Reading Questions page 95
Look at the picture at the top of the page. Do we have anything like this on earth? What is it? Where? Which climate zone is it in?
Why is Margot different from the other children?
Why do they hate her?
How was Margot’s former home on Earth different from her home on Venus?

12. crushed edged crime patterning Vocabulary page 94 & 95
Many English words have more than one meaning.
Recall what these words mean.
Are these the definitions Bradbury used?
What do they mean here?
Can you think of any other examples?

13. Reading Questions page 96
What might Margot do with her family?
What is the meaning of the word vital?
What did the other students do to Margot?

14. Reading Questions page 97
Look at the passage at the top of the page. What is the author’s purpose? Identify details.
Identify context clues and give the definitions of tumultuously and resilient.
Why are the children excited about the sunshine?

15. Reading Questions page 98
“Then, wildly, like animals escaped from their caves, they ran and ran in shouting circles. They ran for an hour and did not stop running.”
Why do you think the author uses the word animals to describe the children?
In your opinion, does thinking of the children as animals help justify or excuse their cruel behavior, or does it make them seem more guilty?

16. Reading Questions page 99
How does the setting change throughout the story? Is it significant? Does it change anything else in the story?
Look at the passage at the bottom of page 99. What emotions might the children be feeling?
What is the author’s purpose here? What details reveal and support the purpose?

17. How did the author end the story
How did the author end the story? Why do you think the author ended the story this way?

18. Thinking About the Selection page 100
What type of story is this?
Who are the characters?
Is there a narrator? Is it 1st person or 3rd person? Who is the narrator?
What is the setting? Is it important to the story?

19. Thinking About the Selection page 100
1. What is your reaction to the way the other children treat Margot? Why?
2. A. How does Margot know what the sun is like?
2. B. Why do the children reject her description of the sun?
3. A. Why do the children want the teacher to hurry back to the classroom at the beginning of the story?
3. B. Who is the “leader” of the class when the teacher is out of the room?
3. C. Why do the children go along with the prank that is played on Margot?

20. Thinking About the Selection page 100
4. A. How do the children react when they realize that Margot missed the sun because of their prank?
4. B. Why do you think they react as they do?
4. C. What do the children learn from their experience?
5. A. How do you think Margot will respond to the children after the incident?
5. B. Why do you think so?

21. Thinking About the Selection page 100
6. What are two things the author might have wished to teach his audience?
7. A. Did the author mean to entertain his audience?
7. B. Which details support your answer?
8. What was the author’s main purpose in writing this story?

22. Thinking About the Selection page 100
9. How does the setting of this story affect the events that occur?
10. Fill in the chart. Give two examples from the story to show how setting affects a character’s mood.
Setting
Character’s Mood

23. Preview
Complete All Summer in a Day and answer comprehension questions
All Summer in a Day test assessment.
Begin vocabulary for Bear Boy

24. Thank you for listening 
The End
Thank you for listening 

25. Test This is an individual, open book test.
Use pages to complete the “Author’s Purpose” graphic organizer.
Test Time: 20 minutes
When you finish your test, sit quietly and wait.