Transcript The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

The Monsters
Are Due on Maple
Street
Presented by: Ms. Marshall
Teleplay
A teleplay is a script for a television
movie or program. The Monsters
Are Due on Maple Street is an
actual episode of a science fiction
series called The Twilight Zone.
Symbol
A symbol is something that stands
for something else.
Maple Street symbolizes streets
everywhere, suggesting that
people everywhere can behave like
the Maple Street residents.
Try to identify other examples of
symbolism as we read the teleplay.
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Complications
Complications are meant to increase
our anxiety about how the story
will finally end.
Inference
An inference is an educated guess, a
conclusion that makes sense
because it’s supported by
evidence.
As you are reading the story, you
will stop and make inferences
when you see the inference
symbol.
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Now, let us pause to
review the vocabulary
and complete a
vocabulary activity.
Vocabulary
• Tell about a time you were transfixed
by something on television.
• Mutter a phrase that is not
intelligible.
• Write a sentence that includes the
words assent and variations.
• Describe something tremendous that
intimidated a child.
• Describe an idiosyncrasy of someone
you know.
Vocabulary
• Tell about something that is a menace
to society.
• Draw a picture of coyotes converging
on their prey.
• Give an explicit direction.
Teleplay Terms
• Teleplay
• Screenplay
• Fade In
• Pan
• Fade to Black
• Cut to
• Outside Shot
• Long Shot
• Close-up
• Opening Shot
• Dissolve
Now let’s Read the Story!
Storyboard Activity
Now that we have read the story,
you will create a storyboard to
show that you comprehended the
story. You will draw boxes on a
sheet of white paper to depict the
major events in the story. Under
each picture, you will include a
piece of dialogue that will serve as
a caption.