All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury Short Story Unit for Theme and Setting
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Teaching theme, setting, and literary devices through All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury will be engaging, thought-provoking, and thorough with this Socratic Seminar and literary devices dystopian short story unit.
This All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury short story unit is exactly what you need to teach your sixth, seventh, and/or eighth-grade middle school learners in an engaging Socratic Seminar, discussion-based, and reading response-focused format with this dystopian unit.
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This unit digs deep into the RL.2 standard that focuses on theme and the literary devices that affect theme. This unit will allow you to use the short story to dig deep into this literature standard.
The backbone of these units is The Socratic Seminar, which pushes students to have discussions with their peers, about the novels (by using the guiding and interpretive questions provided) while using text-based evidence and critical thinking.
Here’s what you’ll get:
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All Summer in a Day 5 Lesson Unit
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Teacher answer keys and vocabulary for all lessons.
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3 Reading Response Examples for teachers and students to reference.
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4 Literary Devices Mini-Anchor Charts or Student Reference Pages
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2 Reading Response Graphic Organizers
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40+ page Implementation Teachers Guide: Socratic Seminar, Tips and Tricks, Pacing, Student Examples, FAQs, scripted lesson examples, etc.
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PowerPoint, JPEG, and PDF Display slides for all Guiding and Interpretive Questions
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Digital Student Reading Response Notebooks
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Editable PowerPoint Reading Response Rubrics: Differentiated by grade level.
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Editable PowerPoint Literary Nonfiction Reading Response Rubrics: Differentiated by grade level.
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Small group and individual conference teacher forms
Students’ thinking and discussions build a strong foundation of understanding for their reading responses (which will blow you away because of how much they grow throughout the year). This unit teaches your students about every single sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade CCSS literature standard in an engaging and thought-provoking unit, and all the work is done for you.
Five Theme-Focused Lessons:
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Lesson 1: Pre-Lesson Set-Up and Class norms for Socratic Seminar
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Lesson 2: Theme Interactive Notebook Lesson
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Lesson 3: Theme Reading Response and Socratic Seminar Lesson
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Lesson 4: Setting Impact on Theme and Characters Reading Response and Socratic Seminar Lesson
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Lesson 5: Comparing Text to Multimedia Version of “All Summer in a Day”
In this unit, your students will get tons of support and conversations from their peers, will be exposed to literature and vocabulary at or above their grade level, and become part of a reading community. Yet it still gives you the flexibility to work with groups of students at their particular reading levels.
Prep is quick and easy… Just review the guiding questions, print or display any reference materials, and you’re ready for an engaging and results-producing class period! There is no fluff and no busy work in my reading units.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Elizabeth G. says, “This had everything I was looking for! The story with room for annotations, a reading guide, and a five-paragraph essay assignment! My students really enjoyed reading through the story. This resource is definitely worth the price!”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Victoria S. says, “Love every product by The Hungry Teacher and this one did not disappoint. Perfect one-stop-shop for everything I needed for “All Summer In A Day” for my summer school students.”
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