2. Your Name Enter Date Martians Among Us: A Culture of Alien Invasion Team JASON Online History and Culture

3. 1930s: Media

4. 1930s: News of the Times

5. 1930s: Entertainment

6. October 30, 1938

7. Purpose Learn the story behind the 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells’s War of the Worlds and compare it to society today. Apply what has been learned to create an original radio drama.

8. TJO Connections History and Culture Link Martians Among Us Link Activity links on the bottom

9. TJO Connections Links available from this page: –Listen to Original Broadcast –Read the Entire Radio Script –Create a Radio Script

10. Process 1.Assign Groups 2.Discuss Invaders From Space 3.Develop 5 Ideas for Presentation

11. What does your Martian look like?

12. Process Continues 4. Review Sample Script 5.Organize Sound Effects 6.Prepare Radio Play 7.Present and/or Record

13. Sample Play (Mars)ing Middle School, Marsing Idaho Summer School 2005 Rick Folwell, Director of Adventure

15. References www.crowdedskies.com/index.htm www.sitcomsonline.com/myfavoritemartian.html http://www.gargaro.com/marvin.html http://www.ameliaearhart.com/home.php http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/gershwin.ht mlhttp://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/gershwin.ht ml http://www.vidicom-tv.com/tohiburg.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnaziger many.htmhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERnaziger many.htm http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1780.htm

16. Your Name Enter Date Martians Among Us: A Culture of Alien Invasion Team JASON Online History and Culture