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= **This page is about the story "All Summer In A Day" by Ray Bradbury. Please check all the links and read through all the questions before choosing 3 questions to answer and support.** =



Discussion Questions:

1. At the start of the story, why are all the children excited? 2. In what way is Margot’s experience of the sun different from the experience of all the other children on Venus? 3. How does this difference affect the way Margot gets along with her classmates? 4. What do the children do to Margot just before the rain stops? 5. What do the children do during the two hours that they are outdoors? 6. What happens to Margot at the very end? 7. 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? 8. How do the children feel when they remember what they have done to Margot? 9. Having read the story, what do you think the title, “All Summer In A Day,” means? 10. Why does everyone dislike Margot? 11. Why does the sun only come out for an hour every 7 years? 12. Why did they lock Margot in the closet? 13. Was the author from Ohio (it said Margot was from Ohio, so maybe he was too?) 14.Why did William say "You didn't write that!" ? (p. 117) 15. Why did Margot write her poem about the sun on Venus? Why didn't she write it about the one on Earth? 16. How can they "smell" the silence? 17. What does "drenched" mean? 18. Why wasn't the teacher there the whole time? 19. Why did the author end the story that way? 20. What are "repercussions"? 21. What does "frail" mean? 22. Why did the teacher say they had 2 hours when the rest of the story says 1 hour? 23. Why didn't they say the were sorry to Margot? 24. What makes William think that bullying is ok?

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