All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury - English

 In our lesson in English, we read a story about people who moved to Venus, a wet planet, where it rains, rains, and rains, a planet where the sun appears every 7 years, to set up civilisation to live there. 

The Reading: https://www.mukilteoschools.org/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=183&dataid=731&FileName=6-All-Summer-in-a-Day-by-Ray-Bradbury.pdf

Activity 1: Find 3 words you don’t know the meaning of. Look them up and write the definitions in your post.

1. Immense means an extremely large or massive scale. 

2. Tumultuously means an uproar or loud confused noise.

3. Apparatus is a piece of technical equipment or machinery that is used for certain activity or purpose. 

Activity 2: Discuss the Exposition of the story -- what are the characters, setting, and mood? 

Character 

- The characters (The children in 9 years of age) were excited and anxious because it’s their first time seeing the sun after 7 years of being on Venus. 

-Margot was ridiculed and made fun of, her classmates think she was an odd person and being hysterical.

Settings

- In the story, it was described that Venus is a planet where it rains non-stop and the sun only appears every 7 years. 

Mood

- The chill from the rain gave a depressing and miserable feeling towards the readers. 

-When the sun appeared, it was warm and welcoming. 

- The children gave a nasty impression about them to the readers for the bad actions they have done to Margot (A character in the story). 

Activity 3: List and label one metaphor, one simile, and one example of sensory language from the story.

Metaphor 

"I think the sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour."

"She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost."

Simile 

"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."

"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 sunburn their arms."

"They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor."

" A boom of thunder startled them and like leaves before a new hurricane, they tumbled upon each other and ran. Lightning struck ten miles away, five miles away, a mile, a half-mile. "

Sensory language 

"It was as if, in the midst of a film concerning an avalanche, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcanic eruption, something had, first, gone wrong with the sound apparatus, thus muffling and finally cutting off all noise, all of the blasts and repercussions and thunders, and then, second, ripped the film from the projector and inserted in its place a beautiful tropical slide which did not move or tremor."

"A few cold drops fell on their noses and their cheeks and their mouths. The sun faded behind a stir of mist. A wind blew cold around them. They turned and started to walk back toward the underground house,

their hands at their sides, their smiles vanishing away."

Activity 4: List and label an example of "Show Not Tell" from the story.

Show not tell 

"And once, a month ago, she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms, had clutched her hands to her ears and over her head, screaming the water mustn’t touch her head."

"The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them resilient and alive. "

"Now the rain was slackening, and the children were crushed in the great thick windows."