October Lesson Plans: Week 8 & 9 by Amanda Escobar https://padlet.com/escobar_amanda/dagl48cjsr4m en-us 2019-11-24 23:53:05 UTC 2025-12-22 14:06:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Monday October 21-Thursday October 31 escobar_amanda https://padlet.com/escobar_amanda/dagl48cjsr4m/wish/415930818  NJSLSA.R1. Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences and relevant connections from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text. 

NJSLSA.R2. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas. NJSLSA.R3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. 

  1. Students finish reading Act 2 of the “Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” The scene is read by students using Reader’s Theater. It is read in a whole class setting and reread once for homework to prepare for assessments. 
  2. Do Now: Students make predictions in their notebooks regarding what they believe the differences between the screenplay and the episode of the “Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” will be. Students share responses with the class.
  3. Students watch the episode of “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.” While watching, students are given a Venn Diagram so they can chart the similarities and differences they observe after watching the episode.

4. The students will summarize what they have read so far in the story “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” as well as show their own personal interpretation of the word “monster” by creating a pumpkin that depicts a monster of their choosing. All students may interpret this idea very differently. Does a monster have to be a scary creature or can it just be one’s actions that classifies them as a monster? Students bring in their actual or paper pumpkins to depict their “monster”. The students soon realize there is no monster on Maple Street, only the monstrous behavior of the humans.
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https://www.state.nj.us/education/cccs/2016/ela/g07.pdf]]> 2019-11-24 23:59:07 UTC https://padlet.com/escobar_amanda/dagl48cjsr4m/wish/415931212 Analytical Essay: escobar_amanda https://padlet.com/escobar_amanda/dagl48cjsr4m/wish/415931769
 NJSLSA.W10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. 

As a closing assignment to the short story: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" by Rod Serling, students will write an analytical essay (5 paragraphs) discussing the negative traits of the human characters in the text. 

The teacher will work with students step-by-step on Google Classroom in an effort to demonstrate effective writing techniques and provide constant feedback to all students. 

Intro for Essay: Monsters

*Add your three traits below in the comments section.

In society, human beings can display characteristics that are positive or negative, depending upon the situation at hand. In Rod Serling's teleplay, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", the citizens of Maple Street display characteristics that are not positive, but rather extremely negative, as after a young boy mentions that aliens turned off the power in their town, the citizens become an angry mob and eventually treat their neighbors with little respect and soon become violent towards one another. As the teleplay continues, the reader learns that the two figures that started the power outage were beings from another planet and they conducted this social experiment to see how the humans would respond to the conflict of having a power outage. To the figures' dismay, the humans, instead of finding a reasonable solution to the problem of the power outage, end up turning on each other rather than working together to resolve this issue. Therefore, in the teleplay the main human flaw that the residents of Maple Street possess are ___________, _____________, and _________.

*Students will use the above introduction and include their chosen three traits

*Traits will be brainstormed as a class on large post-it paper to generate ideas for all students ]]> 2019-11-25 00:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/escobar_amanda/dagl48cjsr4m/wish/415931769