Before you Read
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1. My little boy is very ________ when he wants something,
he keeps trying and trying.
2. Almost everybody has one or more _______________(s)
that people who don't them would consider "weird."
3. The camera should ______ across the scene of the fire
showing everything from one end of the building to the other.
4. Sometimes Les Goodman had _________, and would get
up and look at the stars.
5. The replays of the auto wreck ___________ TV watchers
all over the country.
6. "Let's get it all out. Let's pick out every _______
of every man, woman, and child on this street."
7. "You're standing here all set to crucify--all set to
find a ________--all desperate to point some kind of a finger at a neighbor."
8. "They'll probably think we're crazy or something. A
little power failure and right away we get all ______ (ed) and everything."
9. "In this brief fraction of a moment, they take the
first step toward performing a ____________ that changes people from a
group into a mob."
10. The last book of the Bible is called _____________(s), and
it's where the writer reveals visions of the end of the world.
11. Congress passed the bill unanimously, without ___________.
12. The Welshman's ___________ about Huck being the real hero
was overshadowed by Tom's __________ of the money. (The same word goes
in both blanks.)
13. In professional sports, the coach is often the ________
for a team's bad performance, even if it isn't always his fault.
During:
Discussion/Review Questions.
1. What do the people of Maple Street think
the UFO is at first?
2. Who gets them thinking it might be something
else?
3. True/False. Always taking the same route
to school is a good example of an idiosyncrasy.
4. So far in the play, who is the scapegoat
for all of the fears of the people of Maple Street?
5. Why?
Try to connect "Poem
#435" by Emily Dickinson to "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street."
(in a literary way, of course). What message do they both have? (Hint:
Look at your answer to #4.)
1. "You're standing here all set to crucify--all set to
find a ________--all desperate to point some kind of a finger at a neighbor."
2. "They'll probably think we're crazy or something. A
little power failure and right away we get all ______ (ed) and everything."
3. "In this brief fraction of a moment, they take the
first step toward performing a ____________ that changes people from a
group into a mob."
4. Congress passed the bill unanimously, without ___________.
5. Sometimes Les Goodman had _________, and would get
up and look at the stars.
6. hero : scapegoat :: secret (n) : *____________
7. "Steve Brand...now stands there __________, staring
upwards."
8. "Let's get it all out. Let's pick out every _______
of every man, woman, and child on this street."
9. (2) After Les's car starts, the camera directions say,
"The camera ______ (s) along the faces of the people as they stare, somehow
caught up by this ___________ and somehow...frightened."
After
1. Les Goodman
said he got up to look at the stars because...?
2. What is ironic
about Charlie's statement about going back to the "dark ages"? (What he
meant vs. another meaning we could get from his statement.)
3. (?) What do
you think Rod Serling's theme (point) is? Choose all that apply. a) To
show that we should be scared of aliens. b) To show that we shouldn't be
so suspicious of our neighbors. c) To show that we often judge people by
insignificant things. d) That fear of the unknown makes us dumb. e) To
show that scared people in a group are even dumber.
4. Who caused
the "power outage"?
5. Who are the
"monsters"?
Read the narrator's last speech (p260). The next 2 questions refer to that
speech.
6. Name one of
the weapons the aliens used on the people of Maple Street.
7. What does
he mean when he says, "and the pity of it is..."?