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= EXTENDER: = -Patricia Harley

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#1 In __ Romeo and Juliet __//,// Romeo and Juliet just want to see their too families accept them as they are and their love and allow the family feud to end, yet the Montagues and Capulets only realize this after the damage has been done. Romeo and Juliet are dead before they can see this miracle. They had to sacrifice their lives and their future for this agreement to have been made. In __ All Summer in a Day __//,// Margot also doesn't get to witness a miracle. When it rains she's locked in a closest because of the people who needed rain most of all. No one believed her, but just like in Romeo and Juliet all they needed was for someone to sacrifice their happiness for the better. ===== = #2 In Ender's Game just like Margot in Ray Bradbury's short story, Valentine and Peter try to make a revolution illegally through an internet-like-system and in some way they're stuck in a closest until they're ready to come out. However Margot is stuck in a closest and needed proof for anyone to believe her so that she could come out of the darkness. In both circumstances the kids are trying to defy and prove something socially. =

= #4 In the movie Across the Universe (A Beatles inspired Broadway on screen) all of the hippies are trying to end the war but more people get hurt trying to stop it than the people letting more soldiers die. It was a helpless cause and when it ends too many people are damaged. Same in the story, the main character gets hurt badly (internally) and the nonbelievers definitely regret the way they treated the only person who was right. Everyone in both senarios who were right were hurt the most. =
 * 1) 3 A real life connection is when i move and i tell my friends i'm moving sometimes they try to forget i'm leaving and act like the event will never happen even though i know it will happen and it can't be stopped. In the short story Margot knows it's going to rain and she knows it has to, but still her peers don't believe her. Just like when i move, when it rains reality kicks in for everyone.

#3 Why do you think no one ever went back to get Margot out of the closest when they saw the rain?
= = = = = = =//**Image Finder: Sam**//= This picture obviously describes the setting of a nearly endless rain. It's a gloomy, depressing, cold sort of weather and it only feels worse and worse as each day passes. [|Where I got the Fog Picture]

This is kind of what I'd imagine the kids were looking at, having seen the sun for the first time in their memory. Coming straight from years of rain to a few short hours of warm sunlight would feel like heaven, especially to a child in need of energy release.

The smiley face represents the children. When they played in the sun, it was probably one of the happiest moments of their life. I believe the point of the story is simply to enjoy what you have and love it like it'll never leave. That's exactly what (most) of the children did. Playing freely and thoughtlessly. [|Where I got this picture]

This is what I'd picture Margot would look like before she relocated to Venus. It's implied that she was extremely happy on Earth and played in the sun often. It's terrible what the others are doing to her only because she lived on Earth. It's even worse that they stuck her in the closet.

[|Where I got this picture]

Besides the words, I feel that this picture might be what the classroom looked like. Completely encased with no windows. Metal everything. Entirely contained. Isolated from the pounding rain just above them.

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//**Questions: Sam**//
//1. How old are the children?// //2. Why do you think Margot misses the sun?// //3. What would go through your mind if you were in Margot's place? Locked in the closet, unable to see the sun?//

Vocabulary Builder- Isabella
violently shaking or jarring || This word is used to show how hard it rains, nearly nonstop, pounding down at the forests around them in unstopping blankets. || become less intense or vigorous || On the single day of sunlight the rain slowly eases off into sudden, stunning silence, slipping until the sun breaks through. || weak, easily broken || The one girl who knew the sun is now like a ghost, quiet in the constant pounding of rain. || prophesize, tell in advance || It was the day scientist claimed would bring the sun to them for the first time in many years, but for a time it seemed a lie as rain continued. || multiple instrument or tools working to perform a task || When the rain stops it is the loudest silence as billions of raindrops stop pounding into them. The children remembered always having that thrumming; the silence of white noise, and it was impossibly gone. || a metallic brownish color, a part copper alloy || When earlier the girl who knew the sun said it was a shining penny they had no trust, but when the sun came out they saw it was as an incandescent blaze. || disorderly, turbulent || The jungle covering Venus grows in immense amount, fast enough that if you watched the vines would creep further. || power to excite or interest || It was a new experience and one of such rarity, that in the midst of their running, playing, and freedom, they stopped to hold on to the clear air, true quiet, and the heat of the sun. || make a long, mourning cry || Two hours of glowing warmth, running, joy, and a scream cut it short. The end of the world came to greet them, the sun falling once more behind unforgiving clouds. || grave, serious || A closet held the girl who lived under the sun in years past, keeping her from the warm bliss of the final freedom for the two hours of free life. It was not with happy faces that her fellows realized that they had taken away from her this joy. ||
 * **Concussion**:
 * **Slacken**:
 * **Frail**:
 * **Predict**:
 * **Apparatus**:
 * **Bronze**:
 * **Tumultuously**:
 * **Savor**:
 * **Wail**:
 * **Solemn**:

Questions- Isabella

 * **Level 1** || Where was the character Margot from? ||
 * **Level 2** || Compare and contrast Earth with the Venus in this story. ||
 * **Level 3** || Imagine how Margot felt after she missed the sun’s light. ||