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Thursday, 4 April 2019

English - Story Reading - All Summer in a Day By Ray Bradbury

For our second task on our new topic, Narrative Arc we have to read this short story which is "All Summer in a Day" by Ray Bradbury. This story is about kids who live on the planet Venus and they only get to see the sun every seven years. 

We have to do various tasks with the knowledge we gained by doing the past narrative tasks.

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

Tumultuous - A loud confused noise

Solemn - Being Serious

Blessed - Made Holy

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

There's this girl who's name is Margot, she gets bullied by other kids on Venus because the other kids are saying she doesn't know what the sun looks like even though she came from Earth. The mood is kind of mysterious because at the start we don't really know much about this Margot and why the Children are so keen to see the Sun.

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

Simile - "Their Cheeks like a warm iron"

Metaphor - "It was a colour of flaming bronze"

Sensory Language - "Trembling Hands"

4. List and label an example of show not tell from the story.

"She was an old photograph dusted from an album" Image result for Venus colony

Image Source - Devianart

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