Questions to Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day”

1) What do you think the title means?

2) Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist?

3) Would you have been jealous of Margot if you were one of the other kids?

4) What makes Margot different than the rest of the kids?

5) Why are the kids jealous (list 3 reasons) of Margot?

6) Where does this story take place? What does the outside world look like? What sound is heard the most?

7) How does the constant rain affect the people’s lives?

8) What kind of dreams do the children have? How does it contrast the actual world?

9) What are the similarities between their world/school and ours?

10) List six different images on the second to last page (the really full one).

11) When the sun is out, what is the setting like outside?

12) Do you think the children are sorry for what they did? Why? What evidence from the text supports this?

13) Explain why this story depends completely on its setting.

Questions to Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day”

1) What do you think the title means?

2) Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist?

3) Would you have been jealous of Margot if you were one of the other kids?

4) What makes Margot different than the rest of the kids?

5) Why are the kids jealous (list 3 reasons) of Margot?

6) Where does this story take place? What does the outside world look like? What sound is heard the most?

7) How does the constant rain affect the people’s lives?

8) What kind of dreams do the children have? How does it contrast the actual world?

9) What are the similarities between their world/school and ours?

10) List six different images on the second to last page (the really full one).

11) When the sun is out, what is the setting like outside?

12) Do you think the children are sorry for what they did? Why? What evidence from the text supports this?

13) Explain why this story depends completely on its setting.

Questions to Ray Bradbury’s “All Summer in a Day”

1) What do you think the title means?

2) Who is the protagonist? Who is the antagonist?

3) Would you have been jealous of Margot if you were one of the other kids?

4) What makes Margot different than the rest of the kids?

5) Why are the kids jealous (list 3 reasons) of Margot?

6) Where does this story take place? What does the outside world look like? What sound is heard the most?

7) How does the constant rain affect the people’s lives?

8) What kind of dreams do the children have? How does it contrast the actual world?

9) What are the similarities between their world/school and ours?

10) List six different images on the second to last page (the really full one).

11) When the sun is out, what is the setting like outside?

12) Do you think the children are sorry for what they did? Why? What evidence from the text supports this?

13) Explain why this story depends completely on its setting.