Reading Comprehension:
All Summer in a Day
  1. On your LAL paper, write the answers to the questions in complete sentences.
/ Plot
I can describe the plot of a short story.
  1. Cut and glue the plot diagram in your Notes notebook.
  2. Use the diagram to describe the events of the plot of “All Summer in a Day”
  3. You will also need to copy these events on your LAL paper.
Answer the questions provided. / Setting:
I can describe the settingof the story.
  1. Draw a picture that describes the setting of the story when it was raining. Use the boxes provided to write quotes from the book that help you describe the setting.
  2. Repeat with 2nd picture, showing what it looked like when the sun came out.

Technology Flashbacks:
Spelling Bee!
I can spell words correctly.
  1. Go to my webpage and access “Spelling Bee!”
  2. Choose level 6-8 to start.
  3. On your LAL paper, write your score for each level that you play. Be honest!

/ Point of View
I can explain how the author develops the narrator’s point of view.
  1. Your job is to create a poster that teaches point of view.
  2. What to include:
  • each P.O.V. (1st/2nd/3rd)
  • definition
  • key words
  • example for each
3. Create your poster on the back of your LAL paper. / Narrative Writing
I can make inferences based on the text.
  1. Finish the story-write a narrative that describes what happens AFTER Margot opens the door.
Some things to think about:
  • what happened in the text already (Margot’s actions, other characters’ actions)
  • write your story in the correct POV

Name______Literary Elements Part 1

Higher Order Thinking: Reading Comprehension:
Each answer should be written in complete sentences, and should contain evidence from the text.
  1. Which point of view is this short story written in?
  1. Why is Margot the only child who remembers the sun?
  1. Why do you think the other children disliked and played the prank on Margot?
  1. How does the setting of the story contribute to the conflict?
  1. How do you think the other children feel at the end of the story?

Technology Flashbacks: Spelling Bee!
Write your score from each level. Be honest!!!

Narrative Writing

Setting

Rainy Venus / Sunny Venus
Evidence from the text to support my drawing / Evidence from the text to support my drawing