All Summer in a Day - English

 For today's lesson in English, our class read a short story called 'All Summer in a Day'. After reading the story, we had to answer questions and give example of the things it's asking for.

Here are the questions or follow up tasks:

1. Find 3 words you don't know the meaning of, look them up and write the definitions

Dimly - With a faint light; Not brightly 

Seized - Take a hold of something or someone suddenly and forcibly 

Tumultuous - Making a deafening, loud, confused mnemonic sound.

2. Discuss the Exposition of the Story -- what are the characters, setting and mood?

Character - If you read the story, the main character or who the story is mainly focused on is a girl name Margot. She lives in another planet called Venus, together with her family and a lot of other families. She ha only been living there for five years and in those years, she has not once seen the sun.

Setting & Mood - The setting was in a planet called Venus as said in the story. A planet where it rains nonstop and where the sun is only seen every 7 years. The mood is when it always rains as stated earlier, it gives out depressing and dull feeling towards us readers. But when the sun finally showed itself, the faces of the children brightened up and happiness can be seen in their eyes.  

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

Metaphor - "It’s like a fire," she said, "in the stove." - comparing the sun to fire. 

Simile - "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 away, a half-mile. 

Sensory Language - "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."

4. List and label an example of "Show not Tell" from the story.

"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."