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Analysis Of All Summer In A Day By Ray Bradbury

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A large portion of this quarter centered on the analysis of theme and writer’s craft. The reading and writing connection allowed students the opportunity to look closely at an author’s writing and speculate about possible themes. We used the short story, All Summer in a Day, by Ray Bradbury as a model of how to write a thematic essay. Students wrote a thematic essay about a book of their own choosing following the procedures presented. The thematic essays went through a process of focused mini lessons, individual and small group conferencing, independent and peer revisions. Included in this writing study was the use of commas, semicolons, colons and dashes as a way to incorporate sentence variety. As a follow up, the students completed
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