All summer in a day lesson plan.

1. Here’s the story:
http://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/student/ebook_gr6/int_readers/u1_all_summer_day_air.pdf

2. Ray Bradbury, American novelist, short
story writer, essayist, playwright,
screenwriter and poet, was born August
22, 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois.
He graduated from a Los Angeles high
school in 1938. Although his formal
education ended there, he became a
"student of life," selling newspapers on
L.A. street corners from 1938 to 1942,
spending his nights in the public library
and his days at the typewriter.
He became a full-time writer in 1943, and
contributed numerous short stories
to periodicals before publishing a
collection of them, Dark Carnival,
in 1947.

3. do you prefer sunny
or rainy days?
Say why
Ask your partner to your right… speak 2 minutes

4. Instruction:
In silence, watch this short video:

6. Ask your partner to your left… speak 2 minutes

8. Immense
adjective Extremely large, huge
The silence was so immense and
unbelievable that you felt your ears
had been stuffed or you had lost
your hearing altogether. Question: If I have an immense belly does
that mean I´m thin or fat?
Pronunciation:
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/immense

9. Apparatus
noun
a device or set of equipment
Instruction: Name a medical apparatus.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/apparatus

10. tumultuously
adverb
Wildly, violently, disorderly
They stopped running and stood in
the great jungle that covered Venus,
that grew and never stopped
growing, tumultuously, even as you
watched it. Question: Where would I find a tumultuous
crowd, at a rock concert or at the library?
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/tumultuous#tumultuously

11. resilient
adjective flexible and springy, quick to recover
The children lay out, laughing, on the
jungle mattress and heard it sigh and
squeak under them, resilient and
alive.
Question: Which material is resilient, rubber
or glass? Plastic or stone?
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/resilient

12. savored
verb
To take great pleasure in, to enjoy
They looked at everything and
savored everything.
Question: Which would you savor? An onion
or an ice cream? A beautiful sunset or a bee
sting? The smell of flowers or the smell of
rotten eggs?
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/savor

13. compounded
verb
Put together. Combined
Thousands upon thousands of days
compounded and filled from one
end to the other with rain…
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/compound_19

14. Stun
verb
to surprise or upset (someone) very much.
Question: What would stun you, sitting
down to dinner with your parents or sitting
down to dinner with the president? A car
accident or a red light?
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/stun

15. savagely
adverb Fiercely, in a violent manner
“Well, don’t wait around here,”
cried the boy savagely.
Question: can we play chess savagely?
Can soccer be played savagely?
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/savage

16. solemn
adjective Very serious
Their faces were solemn and pale.
Instruction: show us your solemn face.
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/solemn

17. http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dicti
onary/american/slacken
slackening
verb
To slow down, to become slower
Now the rain was slackening, and
the children were crushed in the
great thick windows.
Question: After running for two hours do I
slacken the pace or pick up the pace?

18. Remember…
• Raise your hand and wait for permission to
speak.
• Listen to your friends.
• Speak English.
• Keep seated.

19. http://my.hrw.com/la_2010/na_lit/nsmedia/ebook_gr6/vocab_games/g6
_hangten/6_summer.html
Instruction:
Raise your hand to participate

21. • Would you like to travel to Venus?
• How do you imagine your school there?
• What could you do to have fun there?

22. Open your book on page 18
Write the list
Speak with your partner to your right for 2 minutes:
How would your life change if any of
these things disappeared?

23. On page 19 answer
the questions 1 to 3.

26.  Stand up and stretch.
 Wacth this short beautiful video:
Active pause

35.  On an index card write your name and the letter that
corresponds to the correct answer:
Instruction,
graded activity:

37. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV-rzGx21rw

38. All summer in a day
Final edited version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV-rzGx21rw

39. Graded activity:
Write an email to Margot,
Include:
Some of the vocabulary seen here
Good punctuation
Accurate grammar
And 100 words.