ALL SUMMER IN A DAY BY RAY BRADBURY SHORT STORY PRESENTATION & ACTIVITIES

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Introduce students to "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury with these ready-to-use short story resources.

Included in your purchase:

  • A 35 slide PowerPoint presentation that walks you through the lesson (author biography, discussion, analysis notes, and much more).
  • Basic reading comprehension quiz to check student understanding
  • Fun and engaging simile and metaphor sorting game/puzzle with a mystery code word students have to uncover. 
  • Vocabulary in context practice assignment.
  • Poetry writing assignment (antonym diamante and quatrain)
  • Margo characterization assignment (requires students to find text evidence and make inferences)
  • Setting and mood graphic organizer. Students find examples of descriptions of the setting, illustrate it, and explain how it impacts the mood of the story.
  • Post cards from Venus activity where students write two postcards from Margo to her friends back home on Earth.
  • Guided analysis activity where students use prompts in the presentation to work together as a group to analyze literary elements.
  • Margot’s Medical Evaluation assignment where students read a non-fiction article and consider if Margo is suffering from seasonal affective disorder.
  • Final creative project where students create a brochure or information sheet that persuades the people of Earth to move to Venus. Ethos, Pathos, and Logos information sheet is included.

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