"All summer in a day" R. Bradbury 6th grade

Margot picks on William.

Margot thinks she is better than the others.

Margot's experiences are very different than the other students'.

Margot does not like to take showers.

Margot lives on Venus.

Rain falls for seven years.

Scientists study the sun.

Children dream of the sun.

She is pale, silent, and thin.

Tunnels are her only comfort.

She likes to hide from everyone.

Rain improves her poetry writing.

have blue faces from the light.

close the door on the falling rain.

look down at their feet and hands.

are startled when they hear the thunder.

they can't bear to see her pale face again.

they are worried that Margot may not be where they left her.

they know they will get in trouble now.

they know they have done a cruel thing to her.

stays away from the jungle.

writes poetry about the rain.

locks children in closets.

might get to return to Earth.

The children are always cruel to those who don't fit in.

The children grow up with no real memory of sunlight.

The children have never heard a bird sing.

The children speak a different language than English.

She misses her old friends from Earth.

There is never enough light for her to see.

She cannot live with her parents while she is on Venus.

She is depressed without the sun.

children learn by examples, not by the book.

life in the future will not necessarily be better.

people who are different often suffer at the hands of others.

most people don't appreciate the simple things in life.

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