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"All Summer in a Day" Setting Map

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Activity Overview

Settings help to bring the reader into the story and they really come alive when you use a storyboard to illustrate them. In this activity, students will identify the setting of "All Summer in a Day", and support their choices with details from the text.

Sights and Sounds

The story is set on the planet Venus, but it is a fictional version of it, as it does not have the environment which we know it to have.
There is constant rain and near hurricane forces at all times.
Most of the story shows the characters in their concrete, drab, underground schoolroom with some mention of the tunnels and other underground living areas.

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Template and Class Instructions

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Student Instructions

Create a storyboard illustrating the setting of "All Summer in a Day."

Use the template provided by your teacher.
Describe the different aspects of setting in "All Summer in a Day".
Illustrate each aspect of the setting with appropriate scenes, characters, and items.
Save and submit your storyboard.

Lesson Plan Reference

Grade Level 6-8

Difficulty Level 2 (Reinforcing / Developing)

Type of Assignment Individual, Partner, or Group

Type of Activity: Setting Map

Common Core Standards

[ELA-Literacy/RL/6/5] Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot
[ELA-Literacy/RL/7/3] Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot)

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Image Attributions

Guthrie's drawing of the fire • Grant Barrett • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Happy Ada (self portrait) • the paessels • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Nice rain outfit (Linden?) • the paessels • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Venus • tonynetone • License Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

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