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Read the paragraph below (from ray bradbury's "all summer in a day") aloud and with expression. emphasize different words to change the meaning of the passage. write one or two sentences discussing how the emphasis changes the meaning of the sentence.

margot stood apart from these children who could never remember a time when there wasn't rain and rain and rain. they were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the stunned world, they could not recall. sometimes, at night, she heard them stir, in remembrance, and she knew they were dreaming and remembering an old or a yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with. she knew they thought they remembered a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the body, in the arms and legs and trembling hands. but then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof, the walk, the gardens, the forests, and their dreams were gone.

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