English Language Arts Level 8 Lesson 53 Mrs. Morrisey
Grammar Grabber What time it is.
Grammar Grabber What time is it?
Quickwrite: (5 minutes) If you were Adams, would you have trusted that the hitchhiker that you kept seeing was real? Explain.
Quickwrite: (5 minutes) If you were Adams, would you have trusted that the hitchhiker that you kept seeing was real? Explain.
Lesson Objective Radio Drama The Hitchhiker
More about Radio Drama? No Visual Component What is Radio Drama? (a dramatized, purely acoustic performance broadcast in audio media) More about Radio Drama? No Visual Component Dependent upon narration, dialogue, music and sound effects Listener imagines the story
Radio Drama History 1880s French engineer requested patent 1920s English radio drama begins in US 1930s radio drama popular in US and other countries Mysteries, thrillers, soap operas, and comedies 1950s-60s radio drama lost popularity w/ advent of television
Radio Drama Elements
Narration (the process of telling a story or describing what happens)
Dialogue (conversation, talking between two or more people) Gives Information Characterization Builds Suspense Sets Tempo
Music (enhanced performance through creation of dramatic mood)
Sound Effects (artificially created sounds to enhance content of a drama or film)
The Hitchhiker Introduction by: Lucille Fletcher Ronald Adams sets out on a cross-country journey...
Questions from the Story 1. What is Ronald Adam's original destination? 2. Why does the repeated sight of the hitchhiker give Adams “the willies”? 3. What does Adams learn about his mother at the end of the play? 4. What kind of relationship did Adams have with his mother? Cite evidence to support your answer. 5. Omit
Questions from the Story 6. Reread lines 171-208. What do the stage directions and dialogue tell you about the hitchhiker's appearance and actions? What do these elements tell you about Adam's feelings and actions? Cite specific details in your answer. 7. Who do you think the hitchhiker is? Give proof from the play to support your conclusion.
Questions from the Story 1. What is Ronald Adam's original destination? California 2. Why does the repeated sight of the hitchhiker give Adams “the willies”? Everywhere he looks, the hitchhiker is there. This is not possible. 3. What does Adams learn about his mother at the end of the play? She had a nervous breakdown
Questions from the Story 4. What kind of relationship did Adams have with his mother? Cite evidence to support your answer. Close. Loving. Nurturing. Mother dotes over him before he leaves. He tells his mother not to come out in the rain. He calls his mother at the end of the story for comfort. Mother has nervous breakdown because of his fate. 5. Omit
Questions from the Story 6. Reread lines 171-208. What do the stage directions and dialogue tell you about the hitchhiker's appearance and actions? What do these elements tell you about Adam's feelings and actions? Cite specific details in your answer. He was ominous, drab, dreary. Adams was afraid and uncomfortable about the hitch- hiker's presence.
Questions from the Story 7. Who do you think the hitchhiker is? Give proof from the play to support your conclusion. The hitchhiker is Adams. At the end of the story, Ms. Whitney reports his death, when and where it occurs. Also, no one sees the hitchhiker but him.
Questions from the Story 8. What are some similarities and differences between the characters, settings, and endings Of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and The Hitchhiker? Present your answers in a Venn diagram. Beginning lines... “I'm not mad.” Vexation (the hitchhiker, the glass eye) Mental Illness Death
Viewing The Hitchhiker http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_twilight_zone/video/621863317/the-twilight-zone-the-hitch-hiker
What did we learn in this lesson? 1. Reviewed Radio Drama 2. The Hitchhiker Questions
View The Hitchhiker. Write a 1-2 page paper comparing and contrasting the written version with the video of the play.