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Teaching "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

The Teaching ELA Podcast

English - May 12, 2022 08:00 - 6 minutes - 4.34 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
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It’s 2026 and everyone is dead. All that’s left are four silhouettes on the outside wall. Oh, that and an automated house that carries on as if nothing has happened. The house performs its functions wonderfully until a tree crashes through a window, starts a fire, and destroys the house.

 Not a ton of action, is there? This is one of those stories where the brilliance of it exists outside of what happens.

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