Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is the second brightest object in the night sky after the Moon. Named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty, Venus is the second largest terrestrial planet and is sometimes referred to as the Earth’s sister planet due the their similar size and mass. The surface of the planet is obscured by an opaque layer of clouds made up of sulfuric acid.

A day on Venus lasts longer than a year Facts about Venus Venus is also known as the Morning Star and the Evening Star A day on Venus lasts longer than a year It takes 243 Earth days to make rotate once on its axis Atmospheric pressure on Venus is 92 times greater than the Earth’s The pressure felt by a human on the surface would be equivalent to that experienced deep beneath the sea on Earth. Venus rotates counter-clockwise Venus is the second brightest object in the night sky Venus is often called the Earth’s sister planet Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system Its atmosphere is toxic and acidic so anything entering it will be destroyed.

Goal: What’s the Big Idea? Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text. Learning Objectives: You will be able to identify a theme, or main message, in a short story by citing specific occurrences in All Summer in a Day. Final Assessment: Students will create their own comic strip or advertisement based on a provided theme, which demonstrates their understanding of theme.

You have one minute to create a paper airplane that hopefully can fly. How can the weather have an effect on people’s moods? Why? Is it normal to resent someone who is in a better situation than you? Why would or wouldn’t you? Why do some people seem to have a problem with people who are different?

What is your favorite weather? Describe with adjectives. cpedits.wordpress.com 

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Simile or Metaphor? Read the following quotes from the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury.  Based on the definitions learned in class, decide whether each quote is an example of a simile or a metaphor. 1.       “The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds intermixed.” ____________________________________________________  2.     “They were remembering gold or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to build the world with.” ____________________________________________________ 3.     “They always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless snaking of clear bead necklaces upon the roof.” 4.     “They turned on themselves, like a feverish wheel, all fumbling spokes.” 5.     “She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost.” ____________________________________________________   6.     “It’s like a penny.” 7.     “The great jungle that covered Venus, that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it.  It was a nest of octopi, clustering up great arms of fleshlike weed, wavering, flowering in this brief spring.”