Looking For A Summer Short Story For Middle And High School Students?

All Summer In A Day Lesson Plans

If your students are anything like mine, they're ready to be done. It's beautiful outside — when it's not raining or producing tornadoes here in Oklahoma — and everyone just wants to go outside. But we still have a few days of school left, and we might as well use them for learning, right? 

Why not make it a fun — and relevant reading and writing experience?

This unit has been one of my best sellers for the past three years on Teachers Pay Teachers and my site shop:  All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury: Short Story in a Week Literature Unit. It's complete with daily reading, discussion, and writing mini-projects, plus essay writing assignment featuring essential questions. 

Are you wanting to bring Ray Bradbury's “All Summer in a Day” alive for your students?

Go beyond just recognizing the elements of story and really delve into the meaning of the story — and how it's relevant to students today.

This unit contains everything you need to guide students through reading the story, responding to daily essential questions, planning and writing a culminating essay the encourages students to take a stand and back it up with information from the short story, non-fiction texts, video, and poetry.

Click here to see all the goodies I've included in the unit. If you'd rather buy it on TpT, check out my store here.

Related topics: Short Story Lesson Plans

About the author 

Michelle Boyd Waters, M.Ed.

Michelle Boyd Waters is the founder of reThink ELA, where she creates research-informed resources that help middle and high school English teachers build stronger communities of readers and writers. After teaching secondary English for 10 years, Michelle has continued working alongside educators and students as a university composition instructor, writing center director, teacher consultant for the Oklahoma Writing Project, and mentor to new teachers. Her work brings together classroom experience, literacy research, and writing center pedagogy to create practical resources that support authentic reading, meaningful writing, and student voice. Through reThink ELA, she helps teachers create classrooms where both students and educators can thrive.

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